Abstract
This article presents the aims and main results of an interdisciplinary research programme devoted to the black-on-red painted pottery characteristic of the end of the Late Neolithic (4800/4700-3900/3800 BC) in north Greece. The macroscopic study makes it possible to distinguish four pottery groups covering east Macedonia and Thrace, the middle and upper valley of the Strymon, central Macedonia and west Macedonia. The more thoroughgoing study of the first group, the best documented of the four, involved a comparison of the chemical compositions of the pottery fabrics with those of the local deposits, and suggests the existence of at least four production sites in west Macedonia. In one case, it is virtually certain that one and the same source of clay was exploited, the precise location of which remains to be determined.
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