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According to the passage, it was during the Neolithic Age that ----.
Pottery was one of man's first artefacts. It is the
presence of pottery, rather than of the polished stone,
that marks the passage from the Mesolithic to the
Neolithic Ages, when agricultural peoples settled both in
the Mediterranean area and in the Middle East. It is
commonly believed that the earliest pottery receptacles
copied those of other materials, such as gourds or
baskets. From the fingerprints on them, it is possible to
deduce that they were made principally by women.
Originally, any decoration was indented; that is, patterns
were pressed into the soft clay, and it remained so for a
long period until new situations, at different times in
different parts of the world, produced painted
decoration. As a widespread form of culture,
permanently bearing in its shapes and decoration the
character of individual periods and peoples, the finding
of pottery has been of supreme importance to the
archaeologist.