Pottery is hardly a mark of identity for a chronological division, Late Antiquity, created in reaction to the long-lasting disregard for the ‘Bas-Empire’ during the nineteenth and first half of the twentieth century, but too heterogeneous as far as this documentation is concerned. Even if the concept of Late Antiquity had, and probably still has, its utility in most areas, it is perhaps dangerous and sterile to confine the ceramic evidence of the mid-third to the end of the seventh century into the framework of this historiographic construction. For ceramic specialists it is now much more interesting to consider and evaluate this documentation in the ‘longue durée’, examining its links with Roman Antiquity and post-Roman/early Medieval or post-Byzantine/early Islamic developments, as is also the general trend in current Late Antique Archaeology. Indeed, now and in the future, research needs to focus on early medieval or early Islamic periods. Trying to shrink even more the concept of Dark Ages (understood as ‘unknown to us’) could be the paradigm shift in the pottery studies desired for the next years.