BRONZE AGE.
Contemporary with Early Minoan.
Pottery with geometric patterns normally dark on light buff or reddish coarse clay. Sometimes red or white on black burnished clay.
Marble figurines 'fiddle–shaped' from Naxos and Paros ([III], Fig. 6).
Contemporary with Middle Minoan
Pottery with very pale sometimes greenish clay, and grey black totally unlustrous paint. Patterns mainly geometric. Rather sparse decoration. Later, with addition of red, decoration becomes fully naturalistic. Lilies and birds in red and black (Melos) ([III], Figs. 5 and 9; hatched lines=red). Beaked jugs ([III], Fig. 5) most characteristic shape of this period.
Cretan influence strong in Middle Minoan completely drowned local efforts in first Late Minoan days. Thenceforward local ware imitative.
SOUTH GREECE.
NEOLITHIC. Nothing known.
BRONZE AGE. Geometric Ware with matt paint and pale clay corresponding to that of islands found in Argolid and Boeotia.