Probably the thing most frequently found during excavations is a ceramic shard. During the Iron Age, people made pots in the traditional way, from clay strips that were hand moulded and later polished on a rotating stand. The so-called potter’s wheel reached these lands soon after it appeared in the Slavic territories, approximately one thousand years ago. Several hundred years later, the foot-operated potter’s wheel would be used for the first time. It made it possible to produce a pot from a single piece of clay. Each family would make the wares they needed themselves, and people often learned the craft of pottery as children. It is thought that women generally passed knowledge about techniques for decorating and mixing clay from generation to generation. Pots were used both for daily and ritual needs. A look at the surface of a shard is often enough for archaeologists to tell which technique was used to make a particular vessel.