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Why a tradition of craftsmanship ends is hardly ever studied. But why things disappear can often be as interesting as why they arise. This is especially true when it comes to a practical and common craft such as pottery making. In the central parts of inland Boreal Scandinavia, the oldest known pottery is limited to a handful of sites belonging to the Pitted Ware Culture (PWC). After a period of a few centuries, the pottery disappeared from the area, while the craft continued both south and north of it. Not until 2000 years later does pottery appear again, and then only on a small scale. This paper aims to arrive at an answer to why the manufacture of ceramics ceased in Dalarna at the end of the Neolithic. To do this, we have studied the existing PWC pottery, from two previously excavated sites, using P-ED-XRF, petrographic microscopy and lipid analyses. The results show that the ceramic craft in Dalarna was a fully integrated part of the PWC pottery making in Central Sweden and entirely integrated in living networks. There is no indication of craft deficiencies or degeneration during this time. In other words, it is a state-of-the-art craft that ends relatively abruptly. Compilations of 14C-dates show that people continued to live in the area, but the pottery disappeared. There seems to have been a radical change in the societies of the time and in their external contact network, which created a new structure in which the need for ceramics seems to have disappeared.