stoneware

These included bronzeware and stoneware, most of which are several thousand years old—but heavy, with the heaviest weighing more than a ton..其中大多数青铜器和石器都有好几千年历史，由于重量的关系都留了下来，最重的一尊达一吨以上。

Now the Java Sea had yielded up a shipload, many perfectly preserved—protected in the stoneware jars from the scouring action of sand on the seafloor..如今，爪哇海交出了一批船货。 由于石器罐子的保护作用，里面的碗逃脱了海底沙的冲刷，许多都完整的保存下来了。

Tall stoneware jars served as ninth-century shipping containers; each could hold more than a hundred nested bowls that might originally have been padded with rice straw, a sort of organic bubble wrap..高的石器罐子在9世纪被用作集装箱，每个罐子可装入100多个重叠的碗，也许起初稻草也被当做有机气泡垫包装纸塞在缝隙中。