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48 THE ARCHAEOLOGY OF CRETE
height for a man was 5 feet 2 inches, for a woman 4 feet
11 inches.1
e.m.i The pottery is still hand-made and begins to show a red-
Pottery ^sh core> perhapS to increasing skill or to the use of the
potter's oven. The main general difference between it and
the pottery of the preceding period is that the burnishing
Fig. 4.—Patterns on Early Minoan 1 Pottery
of the whole surface of the vase dies out, its place sometimes
being taken by a lustrous black slip.2 Incision is revived,
but the filling of the pattern with white is never found.
The pottery varies considerably in different areas.
1. Central Crete.—In this part of the island the old Neo-
lithic tradition dies hard. Indeed, true E.M.i as opposed
1 B.S.A., IX, 347.
*J.H.S., 1903, 165.
height for a man was 5 feet 2 inches, for a woman 4 feet
11 inches.1
e.m.i The pottery is still hand-made and begins to show a red-
Pottery ^sh core> perhapS to increasing skill or to the use of the
potter's oven. The main general difference between it and
the pottery of the preceding period is that the burnishing
Fig. 4.—Patterns on Early Minoan 1 Pottery
of the whole surface of the vase dies out, its place sometimes
being taken by a lustrous black slip.2 Incision is revived,
but the filling of the pattern with white is never found.
The pottery varies considerably in different areas.
1. Central Crete.—In this part of the island the old Neo-
lithic tradition dies hard. Indeed, true E.M.i as opposed
1 B.S.A., IX, 347.
*J.H.S., 1903, 165.