aceramic

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Etymology

From a- +‎ ceramic.

Adjective

aceramic (not comparable)

  1. (archaeology, of a culture, period, or site) Having no pottery or other ceramicware items.
    • 1981, William Irwin Thompson, quoting James Mellaart, Çatal Hüyük, 1967, p. 22, quoted in The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, London: Rider/Hutchinson & Co., page 138:
      At Çatal Hüyük we can actually study the transition from an aceramic Neolithic with baskets and wooden vessels to a ceramic Neolithic with the first pottery.

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