Old Pottery

My CHU is on a light upslope that leads to a small hill. The hillside is within rock throwing distance; very close. On the other side of the hill, about 100 years, the Air Force was digging up dirt to fill sandbags or Hesco barriors or something. As they cut into the hill, they noticed pottery shards. They ceased the digging and called experts, including the Iraq Ministry of Antiquities. Turns out the hill is chock full of these shards, some up to about 5,000 years old. The AF strung concertina wire around the site and moved on.
On my side of the hill, somebody built a volleyball court. To level it out, they had to dig into the side of the hill. This is not protected by concertina wire. I walked up there recently and, sure enough, littered with pottery shards. There are so many that at first it would seem to be some kind of dumping ground. We thought maybe Saddam had rolled up some local villages and dumped the remains there.
In the area the size of a normal card table, there are probably a hundred shards, of various sizes, the biggest about the size of your hand. The are also bones in the hill, and according to research I saw on the internet, some bones are humans. I didn't care to dig around much. Pottery shards are not all that fascinating to me, even if they are really old.