Late Neolithic É includes the so-called Pre-Dimini phases and was characterized by a great variety in pottery styles. In Thessaly these styles have been classified by archaeologists as the phases Tsangli-Larisa and Arapi, though they have been recorded in other regions of Greece.

Grey ware, monochrome or decorated (grey colour on a grey background), which was a development in the scraped ware of the Middle Neolithic and belonged to the Tsangli phase was characteristic of the transition from the Middle to the Late Neolithic in Thessaly. It is encountered in finely made vases, mainly bowls, bell-shaped cups and amphoras. It is more frequent in western Thessaly, and according to recent archaeometric research seems to originate from a specialized pottery workshop in the Grizano area.
Contemporary to grey, is the characteristic black burnished ware of the Larisa phase, mainly disseminated in eastern Thessaly. Characteristic shapes of this ware were bowls with a biconical body, skyphoi and amphoras, often bearing white painted, relief or incised decoration. Clay analyses have shown that this ware was not made in Thessaly, but arrived there through certain exchange networks. It should be noted that this pottery was widespread in the Balkans, the Aegean Islands and the Asia Minor littoral, and therefore it is important for chronology.


The discovery in the same stratigraphical layer of these two pottery styles in recent excavations, at Platia Magoula Zarkou and Macryichori 2, places the Larisa phase at the beginning of the Late Neolithic and not at its end, as was earlier believed.
At the beginning of the Late Neolithic, black paint on a red background, polychrome and matt painted ware, are encounetred, widely disseminated throughout the Aegean area.
In the Arapi phase no more gray ware was produced, the black though burnished ware of the Larisa type abounds, with the interior of the vases (biconical bowls, amphoras) now red. In painted ware the following varieties have been observed: a dark brown decoration on a light background, black-on-red and polychrome. Characteristic of this phase is the decoration with black or white on a red background, as well as the appearance for the first time of the spiral as a design motif, that was to predominate during Late Neolithic ÉÉ.