Talk:Grooved ware

photographs
whomever wrote this article or has knowledge of this subject surely must be aware of some sources of photos to publish in the article, or links to them. this type of subject can't really be presented or described very well without photographs or illustrations of examples of the pottery. Please add some if you can. This subject is of interest to students of the arts (ceramics, art history) as well as archaeological interest. Meat Eating Orchid (talk) 11:19, 30 January 2012 (UTC)

Capitalisation? ("Grooved ware" v. "grooved ware")
This article predominantly uses the name "Grooved ware" (upper-case 'G', lower-case 'w') – regardless of the placement of those words within a sentence. Now, I don't know the first thing about archaeology (other than what I learned an hour ago), but this seems a bit odd to me.

Compare to the article on Corded Ware, which capitalises both words. I did infer (from the "Neolithic Europe" navbox) that "Corded Ware" is both an archaeological horizon and archaeological culture. Ah, that "ware" is thus elevated to the status of proper noun – heck, even a simple "beaker" gets a big 'B' for "Beaker culture".

"Grooved ware" is, according to that same navbox, merely a "technology" – not looking good for that capital 'G'... "But, wait!", you exclaim, "What about 'Unstan ware'?" True, that too is merely a technology, yet thatwiki page consistently capitalises only the first word (upper-case 'U', lower-case 'w'), while repeatedly using "grooved ware" (no capital letters). It appears that Unstan ware had the good fortune of being named for the Unstan Chambered Cairn, itself a proper name. As convention would have it, therefore, "Unstan ware" is correct, as only the "proper" portion of an otherwise common name is capitalised.

Thus, unless I'm missing something (again, my archaeological knowledge is quite limited), grooved ware should follow standard sentence case rules.

In sum, when appearing mid-sentence, the following terms should be capitalized as follows: Groll &tau;ech ( talk ) 09:48, 7 October 2012 (UTC)
 * Corded Ware culture
 * Beaker culture
 * grooved ware
 * Unstan ware