Sentence:  The <WSD>potters</WSD> of the Aegean islands thus stood apart from those of the mainland , and in Greece itself Argive , Corinthian , Attic , Boeotian , and other Geometric sequences have each their own hallmarks . 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  a craftsman who shapes pottery on a potter's wheel and bakes them it a kiln