An introduction to the study of prehistoric art . Fig. 175.—Calyciform vessels, (i) and (3) Carnac. (2) Basses Pyrenees. (4) Sicily. (5) Bohemia. ascribed u> the P,ronze Ajre. In fact this form of or-namentation is not unfrequently seen on cinerary urnsof the Bronze Age, and therefore not even of its earliestperiod. ^ Another class of Neolithic pottery distinguishedby Continental archaeologists is the so-called Banded Ware THE NEOLITHIC OR NEW STONE AGE 145 (Fig. 176). This is distributed over the whole of Westernand Central Europe to the Balkans and even beyond. Itis unknown in Britain. It
An introduction to the study of prehistoric art . Fig. 175.—Calyciform vessels, (i) and (3) Carnac. (2) Basses Pyrenees. (4) Sicily. (5) Bohemia. ascribed u> the P,ronze Ajre. In fact this form of or-namentation is not unfrequently seen on cinerary urnsof the Bronze Age, and therefore not even of its earliestperiod. ^ Another class of Neolithic pottery distinguishedby Continental archaeologists is the so-called Banded Ware THE NEOLITHIC OR NEW STONE AGE 145 (Fig. 176). This is distributed over the whole of Westernand Central Europe to the Balkans and even beyond. Itis unknown in Britain. It must be admitted that manyof the forms included in this classifi-cation are anything but primitive,and must have appeared long afterthe first efforts of the Neolithicpotter. It throws little light on theorigin and primitive forms of Neo-lithic pottery. The most uncommon and obscure of all the character-istics of Neolithic pottery is associated with this bandedornament, for it sometimes assumes a s/>ira/(orm. Stationsheld to be Neolithic, a
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