B. CRETE, AEGEAN, SOUTH GREECE.
CRETE.
NEOLITHIC. Black or red burnished pottery.
BRONZE AGE.
Early Minoan.
Painted pottery, dark paint on light ground, geometric designs. Unpainted, surface mottled red and black.
Middle Minoan.
circa. 3000 B.C.—White designs geometric on dark ground. Orange and crimson added. Pottery very thin and fine (Kamares ware). Patterns very various but not naturalistic except in rare instances. ([III,] Figs. 3 and 4; hatched lines=red.)
Late Minoan.
circa. 1500 B.C.—Return to use of light ground. Brown lustrous paint, fine surface to clay. Decoration naturalistic, flowers, cuttle–fish, shells, spirals, ripple patterns, white and orange dots and bands occasionally super–imposed on dark glaze ([III,] Figs. 7, 10, and 12).
White and orange disappear. Decoration stiffer and more conventional.
AEGEAN.
NEOLITHIC. Nothing known.