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Sherd
In archaeology, a sherd is commonly a historic or prehistoric fragment of pottery, although the term is occasionally used to refer to fragments of stone and glass vessels as well.

Occasionally, a piece of broken pottery may be referred to as a shard, or the more precise term potsherd can be used. While the word shard is generally reserved for referring to fragments of glass vessels (possibly as the word is reminiscent of — though not etymologically related to — "sharp") the term does not necessarily exclude pottery fragments.

A sherd or potsherd with writing painted or inscribed on it can be more precisely referred to as an ostracon.

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Comment on dates from a resin-coated sherd from Spirit Cave, Thailand.(Debate)
Mar 01, 2004; Lampert et al. (2003) argue that the early Holocene dating (c. 7500 BP uncalibrated) assigned to the earliest ceramics at Spirit...
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sherd
Jan 27, 2009; sherd / sh ərd / • n. another term for potsherd .
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Sherd, Dorean L.
Dec 03, 2006; Sherd, Dorean L. Age 78. Services were held. KRAUSE FUNERAL HOME 414-464-4640
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Sherd White, left, 24, practices rolling during an Aikido class taught by Mark Rubbert, right, at Aikido & Japanese Yoga in St. Louis, Missouri.
Oct 02, 2003; STEPHANIE S. CORDLE KRT Photos 10-02-2003 HEALTH-MARTIALARTS SL KRT LIFESTYLE STORY SLUGGED: HEALTH-MARTIALARTS KRT PHOTOGRAPH BY...
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Qualitative petrographic analysis of selected ceramic sherds from two prehistoric sites in Tennessee.
Apr 01, 2002; ABSTRACT--This article summarizes the results of petrographic analysis conducted on prehistoric ceramic sherds collected from two...
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