The old English pottery is rather fascinating, especially the Fulham ware.

Ordinary black pottery can be simply the result of a special temperature in the pottery kiln; such pottery can be found almost everywhere.

The typical thin, fine black pottery of Lung-shan, however, is in the Far East an eastern element, and migrants would have had to pass through the area of the painted pottery people without leaving many traces and without pushing their predecessors to the East.