Late Neolithic II is also known as Dimini culture and was characterized by exceptional specimens of pottery production, where painted (black on a whitish background) and incised decoration predominated, with the spiral and the checkboard pattern as basic decorative motifs. The most frequent pottery shapes were the bowl with a conical body and a flat base, the fruit-stand and the amphora with a compressed globular body, vertical band handles and a low cylindrical neck that narrowed towards the rim.


Pottery production of the main Dimini phases in Thessaly, known as Ayia Sophia, Otzaki and Classical Dimini, confirms a continuity in the pottery styles from Early, to Middle and Late Neolithic I (Arapi phase). In painted ware, initially the decoration of red burnished vases with white (Ayia Sophia phase) or black colour (Otzaki phase) predominated. Linear motifs such as parallel and zigzag lines, solid or hatched, stacked chevrons, circles, rhombus, checkboard pattern and spirals in innovative combinations decorated the surface of the vases. Similar patterns were painted with dark brown or black colours on the whitish slip (thin paint) of vases, forming the most representative class of Classical Dimini pottery. Black painted decoration on the red background of vases was a variation to this. Characteristic of Classical Dimini was also the complex incised pottery with patterns similar to that of painted ware, but also inspired from weaving and basketry. At the settlement of Dimini a pottery workshop was discovered, specializing in the production of such vases.

In northern Greece the influence of Thessalian pottery in western Macedonia is apparent. In eastern Macedonia (Dimitra-Dikili Tash culture) and Thrace, local pottery variations stand out, such as graphite-painted ware, black painted ware on a red background as well as incised ware. These types are also encountered in areas of the southern Balkans (Vinca C, Karanovo V-Marica). The pottery tradition of the Late Neolithic II also continued during the Final Neolithic.