Pottery of the Final Neolithic or Chalcolithic, painted and incised, followed in general the tradition of Late Neolithic ии, while a strong tendency for schematization, abstraction or even a reduction in decorative patterns and poorer quality clay has been observed. Semiglobular bowls with or without handles, basins with a conical base, fruit-stands, cups, jugs with a narrow and tall or low neck, and pithoid vases were the most important pottery shapes encountered during this period.


The Final Neolithic in Thessaly, known by the term Rachmani, was characterized by the following pottery wares: monochrome pottery with red slip and painted pottery with reddish or white paint (paste) added on the background of the vase after firing, and for this reason it was slightly crusted (crusted ware). In vases with a brown burnished surface a variety of handles were attached. In northern Greece the graphite-decoration of vases, as well as with a red colour on a black background continued (Galepsos ware).

There was a dramatic increase in monochrome pottery of coarse badly fired clay, with slip or a burnished surface in tones of red, brown and grey black colour both in Thessaly and southern Greece. Among them peculiar vases in a scoop shape with an incised decoration (Sesklo), shallow basins with holes in the rims (cheese pots) and jars with horizontal, vertical or oblique relief bands and inscisions or fingerprints (Sphakovouni, Arcadia) stand out. Scoops resemble similar vessels from Dalmatia, and are encountered in cemeteries (e.g. Kephala-Kea) which suggests they might have been used in burial rituals.

In southern Greece and the Cyclades fine pottery with a black burnished surface, decorated with linear patterns in white, whitish and red was produced during the Final Neolithic, also known as Attica-Kephala culture. At the same time red burnished vases were manufactured, also decorated with burnished linear patterns, but also vases with an incised linear and relief decoration. Black and red burnished ware has also been unearthed on the islands of the northern and eastern Aegean, as well as on the Asia Minor coast, stressing the cultural unity of the Aegean sea.

During the transition phase from the Final Neolithic to the Early Bronze Age the production both of monochrome burnished and also monochrome coarse vases was characteristic.