• gedaliyah@lemmy.world
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    12 days ago

    If we are talking oldest, Romans are babies in the crib!

    I second pottery shards - they are abundant and go back tens of thousands of years. Even if you wanted a “complete” item, potsherds were used for all types of purposes as complete tools, building materials, writing surfaces, etc.