Sherd nerd

by Irma Havlicek
Powerhouse Museum Online Producer

Much of the work of archaeology is detective work – trying to figure out from fragments of information more about objects or the time and place in which they were used, and how they influenced life.

In the following short (50 seconds) video, Dr Paul Donnelly, Powerhouse Curator of Decorative Arts, and also an archaeologist, explains how if you find only a sherd (a small section) of the rim of a pottery object, you can still tell much about the size and shape of that object.