The Importance of Interpretation in Archaeology

Archaeologists love pottery because it can tell you when and where your site dates from. Pottery is really important for archaeologists because it's an everyday item and there tends to be a lot of it. So this kind of brings us around to the question of like, okay. How do we interpret those? There are multiple levels of interpretation happening here. You've got to interpret what it is you're actually seeing in the ground in the first placeBecause it's not necessarily obvious.