Things Material

When I realized what this article was going to be about I started dreading it. I thought "how exciting can furniture be? Or the differences in diets?

I was very surprised at how interesting it was. I never thought about trying to analyze a group of people (or anything for that matter) based on where their furniture came from. I was amazed at the conclusions and the information that can be drawn from seemingly odd sources. Things that seem so normal and mundane to us can actually tell stories in ways we never would have dreamed of. I never thought that in order to understand history you needed to look at such sources. I always thought information came from written word and documentation. It makes me wonder what people are going to conclude about us in 300 years based on our material things.