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*‘The style of pottery making and modelling that characterised the Neolithic and Copper Age communities of south-eastern Europe in the 4^th millennium BC[E]** is one of the high-water marks of prehistoric European art. The culture of this period represents the culmination of 2,000 years*** of indigenous development in this area, when the traditions established by the earliest farmers reached their peak.’

‘The style of decoration**** contains both abstract and representational elements, though the latter are always strongly schematised and often themselves bear geometrical ornament. This ornamentation takes two basic forms: a flowing meander or spiral pattern, and a more rigid, rectilinear version representing woven matting. These were not mutually exclusive, and were sometimes combined in the same object.)#

*ref [[Redbook8:99][19901108:1030e]{[The Neolithic Period [continued (5)]] – Sacred Curves [continued (3)}[8th November 1990],] 99-100

**{4096C-g~?(!)

cf [[Redbook8:94-95][19901107:1007j]{The History of Art[:]}{The Paleolithic Period [continued (12)]}{The 65,536 year question}[7th November 1990],] 94}

***{After} c.2048 year cycle?

{(G~ ½ of 4096 year cycle)}

****(See example, ibid [Encyclopaedia of Visual Art], 14-15)

#[– ibid [Encyclopaedia of Visual Art], 14-15, ‘Gumelnitsa and Vinča Ceramics’, A. Sherratt (per next entry)]

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