Race would have been an obvious marker, but not the only one, or even the most imoportant one, under certain circumstances.
Trust me, the Bell Beaker floruit of ideas into central Europe was not an example of Age of Aquarius Flower Power.
Note the bi directional character of the zig zag pattern around the lip and lower area. Oriental rugs from Afghanistan and elsewhere have this pattern, in modified and more pronounced reciprocal and visually ambiguous (figure and ground ambiguity) forms, called sometimes running dog designs. I have a Baluchi double saddlebag with these running dog patterns, wildly asymmetrical and winding out (or in) concentrically.
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