Meanings
adjectiveaceramic (not comparable)
- not comparableperiod; or site; period; or sitearchaeologyHaving no pottery or other ceramicware items.
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.
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 138Synonyms: pre-pottery
Synonyms & antonyms
adjectiveHaving no pottery or other ceramicware items.
Similar
pre-pottery
Origin
- Proto-Indo-European*né
- Proto-Indo-European*n̥-
- Proto-Hellenic*ə-
- Ancient Greekἀ- (a-)
- Englisha-
- Englishceramic
- Englishaceramic
Translations
Portuguese acerâmico
- acerâmicohaving no pottery
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Chicago
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