Ancient artifacts - Fascinating finds that inform...

[Maxmars]

Toys generally got used up - passed along to other kids, broken, lost, etc.  What mostly survives tends to be trash (tossed and covered up) or burial goods (put in a grave with someone... and covered up with dirt.)

There are some old toys, though.

Here's a University of Michigan page on an exhibit of old toyos: https://exhibitions.kelsey.lsa.umich.edu...d/toys.php

I wonder at the idea of children playing with toys in antiquity.  How did they pretend?  What did they echo in their play?  How far did their imaginations "go?"

I find it weird that my first imaginations are of how to restore these artifacts from the state they were found in.  It must be a fascinating skill set. 

It had never occurred to me that toys get used up and discarded... I guess I never thought about it... but now that I do, I realize any of my old toys are currently reduced to rust dust, plastic chunks, and strips of string and cloth... anthropologists of the future might never know... except for the random GI Joe foot, arm, or other rigid plastic debris.