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What did the pottery look like during the Archaic period? (site 1)

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If you mean the Greek Archaic period, the pottery was usually made of red clay with figures painted in a glossy black slip (the black‑figure technique early in the period, later giving way to red‑figure). Vessels were decorated with bands of geometric patterns and mythological or everyday scenes, and common shapes included amphorae, kraters, and kylixes.

If you mean the North American Archaic, there was little true pottery early on; when pottery appears in the later Archaic it is typically coarse, thick, often fiber‑ or grit‑tempered, and decorated simply by cord‑marking or stamping rather than the fine painted scenes seen in Greek wares.

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