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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Dawnno, post: 661571, member: 10171&quot;]Second reaction:&nbsp; the &#039;incised lines&#039; in the OP&#039;s pot are made with a three pointed tool... looks almost like a steel tool might have made that ... the lines are SOOOO even or parallel. and a bit &#039;hasty&#039;:</p><p>[ATTACH=full]184967[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>Look at stroke #2 vs #3 ... one is long other short, one touches bottom line, other doesn&#039;t...&nbsp; not exactly a &#039;slow&#039; and patient design...&nbsp; and each set is so regular.&nbsp; Not that it can&#039;t be (the example above isn&#039;t patient or perfect either) ... but the tool has to last long enough on the unfired clay to make it through the process...&nbsp; and steel would... not sure a wooden &#039;brush&#039; could.</p><p><br /></p><p>Is that consistent with Pre Columbian?&nbsp; [USER=10737]@alex webb[/USER] &#039;s example of the pot above is single line incisions, not triple lines, but &#039;so what&#039;- just one data point.&nbsp;&nbsp; That&#039;s where an expert would know...</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]184973[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>and, even the experts might not... a depressing article for all the antiquities enthusiasts out there... <a href="https://www.anonymousswisscollector.com/2017/07/most-of-the-pre-columbian-artefacts-in-the-mexican-museum-of-san-fran-are-fake.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.anonymousswisscollector.com/2017/07/most-of-the-pre-columbian-artefacts-in-the-mexican-museum-of-san-fran-are-fake.html" rel="nofollow">https://www.anonymousswisscollector.com/2017/07/most-of-the-pre-columbian-artefacts-in-the-mexican-museum-of-san-fran-are-fake.html</a>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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