The pottery found includes a wide variety of functional types which all relate to specific activities and which would have been made and distributed with those activities in mind.
what does the underlined part mean?
The sentence is grammatically sloppy but no worse than many others. Analysis makes "types" the antecedent of the "which" in the underlined clause, but it is not. The reader can easily make the connection despite that.
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The sentence is grammatically sloppy but no worse than many others. Analysis makes "types" the antecedent of the "which" in the underlined clause, but it is not. The reader can easily make the connection despite that. That "which" means "pottery of various specific types". Does that answer your question?
The different types of pottery would have been made and distributed with those activities in mind.
"with those activities in mind" means that specific activities would have been "in the mind" of the makers and distributors of the pottery, and would have influenced the way in which the manufacture and distribution was done