Unusual Object

Kadizzle and Jasper Littlebottom took a ride on the motorcycle up a nearby dirt road.  The road led to an Indian site we have visited many times.  Jasper found some nice pot shards and Kadizzle dropped down over the hill from the site.  It appeared there may have been a spring or some sort of source for water.  While scavenging around Kadizzle noticed some little white bone like thing.  Picking it up it appeared to have been worked on by a human.  It had a bone like structure.  Not clear what it is or was.  There is a tiny hole drilled in the thing that makes it seem as if it may have been an earing.  Today Winky is going to turn it over to the authorities and see if they can figure out what it was.  While were were out exploring Kadizzle noticed a long white haired old man.  Engaging him in conversation he showed us what he thought was a small pit house.  Also we discussed a site on the other side of the river that we may try to visit today. 

Seems like every time Kadizzle explores Indian sites he lays in bed that same night and speculates about how these people lived.  One puzzle is the pottery.  Pottery shards are all over Arizona and Kadizzle loves finding them.  The strange mystery is the consistent quality.  Almost all the potter is of the exact same thickness and quality.  It just seems strange that it all almost seems like if was factory made.  Hod did these people make this pottery? Another strange thing is the sand content.  You would think the pottery would be more clay than sand, but that is not the case.  Also the finish of the pottery is so consistent and always of the same thickness.  Winky is over there reading about where we are going today.  She found something about cotton grown by the ancients.  Supposedly it was a medium of exchange.  Back to the pottery.  These people must have had to move water about a lot.  It stands to reason they used pots to do it.  Another possibility is they made water bags from animals stomachs.  The question always comes up at every Indian site, where were they getting water.  Sometimes it is obvious, and many times it is a puzzle.  If you are going to build a dwelling you are going to need a steady supply of water.  How far is it practical to walk for water.  That leads to the next big question.  When these people were around was the climate different? Was there more water? These puzzles are what makes the exploration interesting.