Ægean archæeology; an introduction to the archæeology of prehistoric Greece . kopi calledTraVmi? or ducks, on ac-count of their appearance(PI. XX, I).2 These duck-vases influenced the form ofthe well-known long-beakedpots, the Schnabelkannen ofthe Cyclades and Crete, towhich we shall soon do not know whether theinvention of glaze-paint, im-itating the burnished Neo-lithic vase, was a Cycladicor a Cretan discovery. TheMelians often used dark matt-paint on a light ground,which the Cretans did not adopt ; this looks as if thelustrous paint, to which the Cretan potter continuedfaithful, w
Ægean archæeology; an introduction to the archæeology of prehistoric Greece . kopi calledTraVmi? or ducks, on ac-count of their appearance(PI. XX, I).2 These duck-vases influenced the form ofthe well-known long-beakedpots, the Schnabelkannen ofthe Cyclades and Crete, towhich we shall soon do not know whether theinvention of glaze-paint, im-itating the burnished Neo-lithic vase, was a Cycladicor a Cretan discovery. TheMelians often used dark matt-paint on a light ground,which the Cretans did not adopt ; this looks as if thelustrous paint, to which the Cretan potter continuedfaithful, was a Cretan invention. Cycladic art nowfollowed its own line of development, differing fromthat of Crete, to which we now pass. We shall returnto the Cyclades later. The stage of culture in Crete which immediatelyfollowed the latest Neolithic age is recognizable, Hall, Journal oj Egyptian Archaeology, I, p. 113, PL XVII, 2. Itmay be noted that the petal decoration occurs in Egypt as early as the1st Dynasty. See Petrie, Royal Tombs, I, PI. XXXVIII, I, 2. 2 Phylakopi, p. Fig. 16.—Crete, i, Neolithic ware ;Knossos. 2, II, transitionalware. British liluseitnt. Scale \. ^^ AEGEAN ARCHAEOLOGY though not very many remains have been found of may call it sub-Neolithic, or, in accordance withthe scheme of Sir Arthur Evans, described on p. 3 f.,designate it as the first stage of the Early Minoanperiod, We have no remains of it but potterywhich resembles that of the Neolithic period, thoughit is not by any means so good. We cannot on thisaccount argue that the sub-Neolithic Cretan culturewas inferior to the contemporary Chalcolithic cultureof the Cyclades, though the islanders had with theirmarble figures and their carved -pyxides made a strideforward in art which apparently the Cretans could notor did not emulate, while their pottery in the laterChalcolithic period was considerably more developedthan that of the earlier. We rather regard the suddenfalling-off o
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