Historical games / Harappan / Indus Valley
Harappan Terracotta Dice
Pennsic field experiment
Gather wild clay on site. Refine it. Shape the dice. Fire them at Pennsic.
Question
How far can I get using material gathered from the landscape and a simple field process, then compare the finished objects with archaeological examples?
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- I also want to understand the durability problem: these were small clay objects made to be thrown, knocked around, lost, and handled repeatedly, so how the hell did some of them survive for roughly 4,000 years?
- Less make a replica. More start with dirt and find out.