
These green pots were made in large numbers, but quality varies widely. Learn what separates ordinary examples from those worth collecting.

The Acoma Plateau, often called Sky City, is widely recognized as the oldest continuously inhabited community in the United States. For more than a thousand years, Acoma potters have shaped clay gathered from the surrounding mesas into vessels that are both functional and astonishingly refined. Long before pottery was made for collectors, it was…