2012.91.3, painted jar, low-fired pottery; 3300–2500 B.C.
Eason Eige Collection; photo by B. Bernard
2012.91.3, painted jar, low-fired pottery; 3300–2500 B.C.
Eason Eige Collection; photo by B. Bernard
This jar is 10 1/2 inches (27 cm) tall and was made during the Majiayao phase of the Majiayao culture. Pottery from this phase is characterized by swirling lines, often with dots.
This is the earlier of the two jars in the challenge on the previous page. If you guessed wrong, you may have been assuming that through time, painted pottery designs evolve from cruder to more careful and elaborate. As the two jars in the challenge show, sometimes the opposite is true. You can find a hypothesis about this trend in Majiayao painted pottery on the other answer page in this challenge.
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