Uniform in diversity: Typological and technological analysis of Bronze Age fine ware from Kakucs-Turján

2022 ◽  
Vol 41 ◽  
pp. 103332
Author(s):  
Robert Staniuk ◽  
Attila Kreiter ◽  
Gabriella Kulcsár ◽  
Mateusz Jaeger
Keyword(s):  
Bronze Age ◽  
Technological Analysis

scholarly journals Technological analysis of Early Bronze ceramics of Shauke 1 settlement

2017 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 104-107
Author(s):  
Saule Zhangeldyevna Rakhimzhanova
Keyword(s):  
Bronze Age ◽  
Raw Materials ◽  
Pottery Production ◽  
Organic Solution ◽  
Cultural Traditions ◽  
North East ◽  
First Results ◽  
East Kazakhstan ◽  
Preparatory Stage ◽  
Technological Analysis

The paper introduces the first results of special technical and technological investigation of ceramic artifacts discovered during the excavations of the Early Bronze Age settlement Shauke 1 located in the Pavlodar Region of North-East Kazakhstan. The research of ceramic objects is conducted within historical and cultural approach following A.A. Bobrinskys technique. 53 samples from different vessels were selected for the technological analysis of ceramic artifacts found at the settlement. The samples were investigated with the use of a binocular microscope MBS-10. The main objective of the research was to identify cultural traditions at a preparatory stage of ceramic vessels production. The author studied initial raw materials selection skills and forming substance preparation. The author recorded the use of several conditional spots as sources of raw materials. Six different recipes of forming substances were identified at the settlement of Shauke 1. The most common amongst them are clay + chamotte + organic solution (60,38%), clay + chamotte + bone + organic solution (28,30%). This indicates the presence of artisans who followed different traditions of pottery production at the site.

scholarly journals BRONZE AGE HANDMADE CERAMICS FROM THE IL’ICH-1 SETTLEMENT: RESULTS OF TECHNICAL AND TECHNOLOGICAL ANALYSIS

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
О.В. Шаров ◽  
М.Е. Клемешова
Keyword(s):  
Bronze Age ◽  
Late Bronze Age ◽  
North Caucasus ◽  
Taman Peninsula ◽  
Ceramic Assemblage ◽  
Technological Analysis ◽  
The Bronze Age

В статье представлены результаты исследований лепной керамики эпохи бронзы поселения Ильич 1 (раскоп Берег IV ) на Таманском полуострове методом технико технологического анализа. Установлено, что керамика основного керамического комплекса из объектов III горизонта, исходным пластичным сырьем для которой служила глина, относится к эпохе поздней бронзы сабатиновской/белозерской культурам. Редкие типы двуручных чернолощеных сосудов, изготовленных из ила, зафиксированы либо в объектах более раннего времени, либо в объектах длительного использования. Аналогии некоторым из этих сосудов обнаружены в дольменной и северокавказской культурах эпохи средней бронзы. The paper reports on the results of the studies conducted with the use of the technical and technological analysis of handmade ceramics dating to the Bronze Age at the Ilich 1 settlement (Bereg IV excavation trench) on the Taman peninsula. It was established that ceramics from the main ceramic assemblage coming from constructions identified in horizon III that were made from clay were dated to the Late Bronze Age and attributed to the Sabatinovka and the Belozerka cultures. Rare types of two handled black polished vessels made from silty mud were recorded at earlier sites or at permanent constructions. Analogies to some of such vessels were discovered in the dolmen and North Caucasus cultures of the Early and Middle Bronze Ages.

scholarly journals Pottery complex of the Bronze Age burial ground of Kulevchi VI: typology and technical-technological analysis

2020 ◽  
pp. 35-47
Author(s):  
V.V. Ilyushina ◽  
I.P. Alaeva ◽  
N.B. Vinogradov
Keyword(s):  
Bronze Age ◽  
Burial Ground ◽  
Cultural Groups ◽  
Organic Additives ◽  
Natural Clays ◽  
Dual Evolution ◽  
In Fire ◽  
Burial Grounds ◽  
Technological Analysis ◽  
The Bronze Age

This paper presents the results of the typological study and technical-technological analysis of the pottery complex from the Late Bronze Age burial ground of Kulevchi VI (Southern Ural, Russia). The typological analysis of 107 objects yielded 10 types of the vessels correlated with four cultural and chronological groups: Petrovka; Early Alakul; Alakul and Alakul-Fedorov. The presence of all designated groups and types of vessels in the burial ground indicates functioning of the necropolis during the whole period of existence of the Alakul Culture: types IА, IБ and IВ — the formation stage of the actual Alakul Culture associated with the pottery of the Petrovka type of the sites; types IIБ, IIВ, III — the golden age of the Alakul Culture; and type IIГ — the late stage of the Alakul Cul-ture, reflecting the engagement with sub-cultural groups of the Fedorovskaya population. The technical-technological analysis using the method developed by A.A. Bobrinsky revealed the pottery skills of the population making different types of vessels. Amongst the studied population, only natural clays were used for pottery. The molding composition included organic additives and talcum gruss, and sometimes also chamotte. One program of constructing of the clay blank, the vaulted bottom type, has been identified, and the use of the patchwork spiral applique has been recorded. The surface of the vessels was smoothened and subjected to glazing. The firing of pottery items was carried out in fire-pits and hearths. Close similarity of the potters’ skills at different stages of pottery making has been observed for the items of the Petrovka, Early and Classical Alakul and Alakul-Fedorov Cultures. Correlation of the collected information with the known data on the ceramics of the Petrovka and Alakul types demonstrates commonality of the skills possessed by these groups of the population of Southern Ural and Northern Kazakhstan. On the basis of similarity of the pottery-making technologies of different chronological groups of the burial grounds of Kulevchi VI, it has been established that the development of the pottery-making traditions of the population was taking place within affinal groups. The similarity of the pottery traditions and gra-dual evolution of the Petrovka, Early Alakul; Alakul and Alakul-Fedorov groups allow considering them within the framework of the same phenomenon — the Alakul Culture.

scholarly journals Some results of technical and technological analysis of late bronze age ceramics of the Southern Urals tribes exemplified by the materials of Kazburun archaeological microdistrict (Republic of Bashkortostan)

2016 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 76-84
Author(s):  
Nikolai Borisovich Shcherbakov ◽  
Sean Patrick Quinn ◽  
Iia Alexandrovna Shuteleva ◽  
Tatiana Alexeevna Leonova ◽  
Ulia Vladimirovna Lunkova ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Bronze Age ◽  
Southern Urals ◽  
Ceramic Technology ◽  
Late Bronze Age ◽  
The Southern Urals ◽  
Cultural Traditions ◽  
Cultural Approach ◽  
Cultural Transformations ◽  
Republic Of Bashkortostan ◽  
Technological Analysis

This article discusses the use of traditional methods within the A.A. Bobrinsky historical-cultural approach to pottery analysis that allow us to consider each vessel as a source of information of the design and starting of the hollow body of the vessel. Thus, a more or less whole vessel may render information about a particular container design pattern or the skills of a particular potter group. This approach to ceramics allows you to study the cultural traditions in the manufacture of ceramics and, accordingly, closed family groups which have produced, and on the basis of radiocarbon dating to determine the time of its manufacture: Usmanovo I - III settlements (1930 - 1750 BC - Beta Analytic) and Kazburun I barrows (AMS 1820 - 1795 BC - Beta Analytic). However, ceramic archaeological complex Kazburun neighborhood has become one of the important factors in identifying cultural transformations and cultural interactions in the Late Bronze Age in the Southern Urals. Experimental methods of historical-cultural approach A.A. Bobrinsky to reconstruct the pottery of the late Bronze Age, the Southern Urals. Methods of technical and technological analysis of pottery made it possible to reconstruct not only the pottery tradition of the Late Bronze Age of the Southern Urals, but also allowed a glimpse into the past of the studied population. As a new method of ceramic petrographic study research method was applied, which revealed the inclusion of various minerals in the blood vessels dough, to determine the temperature and the intensity of the burning, and to prove the presence of sludge in ceramic test. Further application of this method will allow in the future to determine the locations of ancient Clay and ceramic technology to reconstruct the Late Bronze Age of the Bashkir Transurals.

scholarly journals IMPORTED CERAMICS FROM THE SETTLEMENT KENT

2015 ◽  
Vol 4 (4) ◽  
pp. 71-80
Author(s):  
Valeriy Grigoryevich Loman
Keyword(s):  
Central Asia ◽  
Bronze Age ◽  
Ceramic Assemblage ◽  
Steppe Belt ◽  
Ceramic Vessels ◽  
Trade And Exchange ◽  
Comparison Of The Results ◽  
High Degree ◽  
Archaeological Cultures ◽  
Technological Analysis

At the end of the Bronze age so-called community of the roll ceramics cultures (crcc) occupied the territory of the steppe belt of eurasia. despite the vast distances that separate sites, ceramic vessels of these cultures have a high degree of resemblance. the technical and technological analysis of pottery enables, in particular, to determine the depth of the cultural differences of the ancient population groups. Unfortunately, such analysis for most cultures of the crcc not carried out, and this fact greatly complicates the work to establish the degree of kinship and identification of contacts existed between them. this article analyzes the ceramic assemblage of Kent settlement - the largest for sargary-alekseev culture, part of crcc. it was found that the population that left the site, consisted of not less than 3-4 groups, which were in the process of mixing. on the base of comparison of the results of technical and technological analysis it was found the pottery, imported from related communities. in addition, the technology of foreign culture pottery samples is considered and conclusions about areas of their origin are made. Vessels with ornaments and shape similar to the synchronous archaeological cultures of Western siberia and central asia are attributed as foreign. it was found that ceramics, coming from central asia, was constructed by sculptural modeling methods, and a potters wheel was used only for profiling the main part of the container. it is concluded that sargary-alekseev groups were not closed communities. they were in constant contact with related settlements and also in trade and exchange relations with the population of neighboring areas.

scholarly journals The results of the technical-technological analysis of Grenada camp ceramics (Central Kazakhstan)

2016 ◽  
Vol 5 (3) ◽  
pp. 69-72
Author(s):  
Valeriy Grigoryevich Loman
Keyword(s):  
Bronze Age ◽  
Middle Ages ◽  
Iron Age ◽  
Raw Materials ◽  
Ceramic Production ◽  
Early Bronze Age ◽  
Historical Processes ◽  
Late Chalcolithic ◽  
In The Beginning ◽  
Technological Analysis

One of the problems in archaeology of Kazakhstan is the uneven study of the sites belonging to different epochs. For example, in Central Kazakhstan there is a clear bias towards the study of antiquities of the middle and late Bronze Ages, Early Iron Age and Middle Ages. The study of the Stone Age stopped since the 90-es of XX century, the Early Bronze Age is practically not investigated. This article publishes the results of technical-technological analysis of the ceramics of the Grenada camp (Karaganda, Kazakhstan) dated from the late Chalcolithic to the beginning of the Early Bronze Age. Author studied raw materials (three kinds), the clay paste composition (six recipes), the features of the design of the beginning (two programs) and the hollow body. The diversity of pottery traditions, marked for all levels of ceramic production, speaks of the heterogeneous composition of the camp population. The vessels belonged at least to two groups of different origin. Mixed recipes with gruss and grog in the presence of pure demonstrate this process of cultural mixing that took place within the camp. The conclusion is made that the materials of the Grenada camp, including the features of pottery traditions, reflect the complexity of the cultural-historical processes that have taken place in the territory of the Central Kazakhstan in the end of Chalcolithic - in the beginning of Early Bronze Age.

scholarly journals CERAMICS FROM BRONZE AGE SETTLEMENT IRGANAY I: ANALYSIS OF FEEDSTOCK

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
М.Ш. Сайпудинов
Keyword(s):  
Bronze Age ◽  
Raw Material ◽  
Organic Substances ◽  
Organic Solution ◽  
Ancient Ceramics ◽  
Middle Bronze Age ◽  
Clay Body ◽  
Non Local ◽  
Technological Analysis

На основе методики технико-технологического анализа древней керамики, разработанной А. А. Бобринским, изучалась керамика Ирганайского поселения № I эпохи средней бронзы. Для изучения исходного пластичного сырья и состава формовочных масс были отобраны 53 образца, относящиеся к разным типам сосудов и исследованные по свежим изломам с помощью микроскопа МБС-10 при увеличении до 56 крат. Таким образом, получена информация о характере использованного пластичного сырья и искусственных примесей, добавленных при составлении формовочных масс по определенным рецептам. В итоге были определены и выделены 8 рецептов формовочной массы сосудов: 1) глина + шамот; 2) глина + органика; 3) глина + шамот + органика; 4) глина + шамот + органический раствор; 5) глина + кость + шамот + органический раствор; 6) глина + шамот + навоз; 7) глина + навоз; 8) глина + дресва + органика. Такой набор рецептов формовочных масс отражает существовавший на поселении широкий спектр традиций гончарного производства, вероятно, имеющих как местное происхождение, так и являющихся привнесенными. Based on the methodology of technical and technological analysis of ancient ceramics developed by A. A. Bobrinskiy, we examined ceramics from the Irganay I settlement dating to the Middle Bronze Age. In order to study the basic plastic raw material and the composition of clay body, 53 samples referring to various types of vessels which were examined based on fresh breaks with the help of an MBS-10 microscope when magnified up to 56 times were selected to obtain information on how the plastic raw material was used and what artificial admixtures were added to prepare clay based on specific formulations. As a result, eight recipes of clay preparation for pottery-making were identified and singled out: 1) clay + grog; 2) clay + organic substances; 3) clay + grog + organic substances; 4) clay + grog + organic solution; 5) clay + bone + grog + organic solution; 6) clay + grog + manure; 7) clay + manure; 8) clay + grit + organic substances. This set of clay recipes reflects a broader range of pottery traditions that existed at the settlement and were, apparently, both local and non-local.

scholarly journals Ceramic materials of the late neolithic - early bronze age of the Podzorovo site on the Upper Don from the excavations by M.E. Foss in 1953

2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (3) ◽  
pp. 143-149
Author(s):  
Andrey Sergeevich Zheludkov ◽  
Roman Viktorovich Smolyaninov ◽  
Irina Viktorovna Klimkova
Keyword(s):  
Bronze Age ◽  
Ceramic Materials ◽  
Early Bronze Age ◽  
Forest Steppe ◽  
Late Neolithic ◽  
Additional Information ◽  
Neolithic Culture ◽  
Cultural Types ◽  
Technological Analysis ◽  
The Bronze Age

The following paper analyzes ceramic collection from the excavations by M.E. Foss in 1953 from the Podzorovo site in Michurinsky District , Tambov Region, stored in the collections of the State Historical Museum (GIM 104032, inventory A 833). According to the results of the research, M.E. Foss concluded that there was originally a Late Neolithic site, and then a Bronze Age settlement. At the same time, the ceramics were divided into two groups: Late Neolithic (first of all pit-comb ornamented) and relating to the Bronze Age (other). When reviewing the collection in the light of new knowledge we were able to identify the materials of Dronicha late Neolithic culture, Eneolithic Srednestog culture and ceramics of the Ksizovo type, as well as Repino culture of the early Bronze Age. All of them find numerous analogies in the settlements of Don forest-steppe area. Thus, it was established that only in the Neolithic era - early Bronze, the Podzorovo site was settled at least six times. As additional information when describing ceramics, we present data on the results of the technical and technological analysis obtained during the study of ceramics of these cultures and cultural types originating from the settlements of the Upper Don.

scholarly journals A STUDY OF BRONZE AGE CERAMICS FROM THE FOREST ZONE OF EASTERN EUROPE: WHAT DOES THE TERM “FATYANOVO-LIKE” MEAN?

2018 ◽  
Vol 46 (2) ◽  
pp. 52-59 ◽  
Author(s):  
E. V. Volkova
Keyword(s):  
Eastern Europe ◽  
Bronze Age ◽  
Forest Zone ◽  
Local Traditions ◽  
Technological Analysis ◽  
The Bronze Age

The Bronze Age pottery from the forest zone of Eastern Europe includes a category that is often described as “Fatyanovo-like”. It reveals a blend of predominantly Fatyanovo and other features. A morphological and technological analysis of 129 vessels from Nikolo-Perevoz I (a settlement with a collective burial) and II has revealed four groups––one Fatyanovo proper and three evidencing a mixture of Fatyanovo with local traditions of various origins. The Fatyanovo-Volosovo group appears to have been a result of local mixture, whereas that from the burial is close to the Fatyanovo-Osh-Pando tradition, which had been introduced from without. These fi ndings are relevant to the relationships between the Fatyanovo, Volosovo, and Osh-Pando people. Also, they demonstrate that the umbrella term “Fatyanovo-like” is meaningless.

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