aceramic

From a- + ceramic.

aceramic (not comparable)

1. (archaeology, of a culture, period, or site) Having no pottery or other ceramicware items.
   • 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 138:

     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.

• pre-pottery