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The earliest style of pottery is known as Carinated Bowl; these pots usually have distinct carinations (sharply turned shoulders) and burnished finishes. [2] Carinated Bowls (CB) are not decorated, except for a few instances of grooves created by fingertips dragged down or along the bowl surface while the clay was still wet.
Peterborough ware is a decorated British Neolithic pottery style of the early to middle English Neolithic. Named after Peterborough, the nearest city to where the style was first discovered, it is found in the region of South-East England and East Anglia. [1] [2] it is known for the impressed pits made by bone or wood implements in its sides ...
Grimston-Lyles Hill ware or Grimston ware (more recently CB ware) is an Early and Middle Neolithic pottery originally named after the site where it was found in the north east of England, "Hanging Grimston", a long barrow in the former East Riding area of Yorkshire.
Grooved ware is the name given to a pottery style of the British Neolithic. Its manufacturers are sometimes known as the Grooved ware people. Unlike the later Beaker ware, Grooved culture was not an import from the continent but seems to have developed in Orkney, early in the 3rd millennium BC, and was soon adopted in Great Britain and Ireland. [1]
Pottery of the Ballymarlagh Style. Western Neolithic ware, also known as Western style Neolithic pottery or New Stone Age pottery in the Western-style, is a type of pottery of the Early and Middle New Stone Age, which is found in the western parts of the British Isles and especially in Ireland. [1] It was defined in 1961 by Humphrey Case (1918 ...
Fragment of an Unstan ware bowl. Unstan ware is the name used by archaeologists for a type of finely made and decorated Neolithic pottery from the 4th and 3rd millennia BC. . Typical are elegant and distinctive shallow bowls with a band of grooved patterning below the rim, [1] a type of decoration which was created using a technique known as "stab-and-d
Freston is a Neolithic causewayed enclosure, an archaeological site near the village of Freston in Suffolk, England.Causewayed enclosures were built in England from shortly before 3700 until at least 3500 BC; they are characterised by the full or partial enclosure of an area with ditches that are interrupted by gaps, or causeways.
The Neolithic era, c. 4000–2400 BCE, saw significant cultural developments, including the introduction of the earliest pottery, limited agriculture, and the construction of megalithic monuments. Early farming in Cornwall primarily focused on animal husbandry , with only minimal crop cultivation .