A moment in Time during the Neolithic.

So, I researched the Hembury Causewayed Enclosure Ceramic assemblage , which gave me a more intimate connection to the potters who had made these pots. They had left all sorts of marks on these pots. Burnishing marks, wipe marks , adjoining coils/flat sausages, finger nail imprints. There was little or no decoration on these pots but they were made rapidly, not highly crafted as the Hembury Bowl was.
But later, thoughts about the connection between the C14 dates and the sherds began to emerge and to capture this , I’ve had to write it down before it escapes me again.
So the C14 dates from Gathering Time gives us broad parameters of a range of time - about  100-150 years in which these pots occur in the archaeological  record. But paradoxically, a piece of pottery or flint tool are just a moment in time.  There’s a disconnect between these two ideas. It’s almost a paradox. A dialectic. It’s an archaeological problem from which chronological theories have emerged.

So experimental archaeology, the production of replica ceramics , re-enactment of a ceramic chaine  operatoire can provide an insight into these problems.  As the experimental archaeologist , I am the actor who performs the chaine. My lifetime and the making of a few Neolithic pots gives me a perspective on just how much of that 150 years it takes to make these pots.
And the specific insight, for the archaeologist is that, in terms of time, this pot would take about 30- 45 minutes to make , a couple of hours to fire, and could further define Whittles calendrical, generational , perspectives down to limits of minutes and hours, even begin to look at an individual Neolithic potters activities.