The typo-chronology of Cypriot pottery for the Iron Age was established by Einar Gjerstad based on material excavated by the Swedish Cyprus Expedition.
[2] The earliest widely used ceramics during the 5th millennium BC are of the Dark Faced Burnished Ware type.
[6][7] Base-ring Ware is also considered to be a "typical Cypriot" ceramic "of the Late Bronze Age".
[7] During the Iron Age the pottery was "colorful and often elaborately painted with geometric or figural motifs.
Ubiquitous concentric circles were applied to jars, juglets, bowls and kraters using multiple brushes.