The article is intended to address an essence of pottery assemblages from Neolithic settlements.
Three aspects have been analysed: relationships between complete vessels and fragments resulted from their
breakage; relationship between composition of pottery vessels used at any given moment and composition of
deposited ceramics; and relationship between deposited pottery and its excavated fraction. It is argued that pottery
assemblages excavated and analysed by archaeologists are result of refuse practices. Consequently, they
distinctive traits reflect neither a deposited assemblage nor a composition of pottery vessels used at any given
moment at the settlement