ABSTRACT
Archaeology is not only a process which unearths different things used in the past, but one which requires its practitioners to recognize the articles discovered and then to establish likely cultural contexts for them. To that end we often try to uncover their function, their utility, in some past cultural circumstance. This chapter posits that the articles archaeologists encounter in their investigations sometimes had complex careers and that some pottery discovered in ancient settlements in southern Africa recast their cultural personae from time to time. By analysing the kaleidoscope of the several uses of these African artefacts and their allied cultural contexts, we can also illuminate other aspects of the lifeways of the early inhabitants of the Victoria Falls region.
