Sentence:  Geometric pottery has not yet received the thorough , detailed study which it deserves , partly because the task is a mammoth one and partly because some of its <WSD>local</WSD> manifestations , as at Argos , are only now coming to light . 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  relating to or applicable to or concerned with the administration of a city or town or district rather than a larger area