scholarly journals Ceramic ware in the culture of mobile foragers of the Extreme north-east of Europe

2018 ◽  
Vol 7 (3) ◽  
pp. 230-240
Author(s):  
Victor Nicolaevich Karmanov
Keyword(s):  
Material Culture ◽  
Critical Analysis ◽  
Western Siberia ◽  
Daily Life ◽  
Ceramic Ware ◽  
Forest Zone ◽  
North East ◽  
Qualitative Shape ◽  
Extreme North ◽  
Extract Information

In the paper the author summarized and systematized the initial data on ceramic ware of the Neolithic and Eneolithic of the Extreme north-east of Europe. He analyzed information about the archaeological contexts of ceramics, its quantitative (number of capacities in each complex) and qualitative (shape, proportionality and volume of vessels) characteristics. Critical analysis is used to assess the possibilities of available materials to extract information. As a result, the dynamics of quantitative and qualitative parameters of ceramic ware during the VI - first half of II millennium BC was traced. Its cultural and chronological features are determined as well. It is established that in the first half of the V millennium BC ceramics in the form of sets of vessels of different volumes and kinds becomes an integral part of the daily life of the hunters of the region. According to their lifestyle, the demand for ceramics was limited: the average number of simultaneously used vessels on average 3-4 containers per context. In this case, the simplest forms (round-bottomed pots with volumes up to 25 liters and bowl-shaped dishes up to 2,5 liters) predominate. Ceramic traditions presented in the region are associated with cultures that originate in different adjacent areas of the forest zone of Eastern Europe and Western Siberia, so the universality of the customary forms, volumes and, probably, the ways of using ceramic dishes, is universally accepted. The data obtained can be used as materials for the development of the problem of the distribution of early ceramics, for assessing the role and determining the place of it in the material culture of the prehistoric population.

The Story of Storyboards from East Sepik, Papua New Guinea

2019 ◽  
Vol 40 (1) ◽  
pp. 59-74
Author(s):  
Martin Soukup ◽  
Dušan Lužný
Keyword(s):  
Material Culture ◽  
Daily Life ◽  
Field Research ◽  
New Guinea ◽  
Colonial Period ◽  
Cultural Continuity ◽  
Cultural Changes ◽  
Post Colonial ◽  
Global Tourism ◽  
The Village

This study analyzes and interprets East Sepik storyboards, which the authors regard as a form of cultural continuity and instrument of cultural memory in the post-colonial period. The study draws on field research conducted by the authors in the village of Kambot in East Sepik. The authors divide the storyboards into two groups based on content. The first includes storyboards describing daily life in the community, while the other links the daily life to pre-Christian religious beliefs and views. The aim of the study is to analyze one of the forms of contemporary material culture in East Sepik in the context of cultural changes triggered by Christianization, colonial administration in the former Territory of New Guinea and global tourism.

Ceramic-ware along the Ancient Silk Trade Route—A Short Study of Cross-Cultural Influences on Product Form

2016 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 84-97
Author(s):  
Ravi Mokashi Punekar ◽  
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Shiva Ji ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Material Culture ◽  
Cultural Influences ◽  
Cross Cultural ◽  
Product Form ◽  
Ceramic Ware ◽  
Ancient Times ◽  
Silk Route ◽  
Trade Route ◽  
Multiple Domains ◽  
Trading Routes

The exchange of goods and materials by way of trading and exchanges were common in ancient times between India and China via silk route and other trading routes. The movement of people from one place to another brought exchange of not only materials but also techniques and processes and helped to establish their own manufacturing facilities and craftsmanship. This has resulted into a cross-cultural influence over the craft forms as reflected in many resemblances of material culture, annotations and apologies seen in various forms and shapes in multiple domains such as ceramic pottery, glazed pottery, metalware, ship buildings, printing, silk and other fabrics, patterns and motifs etc. Observations of ancient remains from Belitung and artifacts from Indian cities along secondary and tertiary Silk routes, show significant influence in the similarities in techniques, materials, surface treatments, kiln processes, colors, motifs , etc. This paper examines a cross-cultural resemblance of product form factor between Changsha pottery and pots to ceramic ware from eastern parts and metalware from western regions of India like Gujarat and Rajasthan. The spread of Buddhism from India to China and other eastern and south eastern countries during this period must also form a strong reason for this cultural exchange.

scholarly journals Keeping the Frontier: Steps “Towards Neolithization” in the Eastern Gulf of Finland

2021 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 1244-1257
Author(s):  
Dmitriy V. Gerasimov
Keyword(s):  
Material Culture ◽  
Iron Age ◽  
Driving Forces ◽  
Cultural Development ◽  
Gulf Of Finland ◽  
Forest Zone ◽  
Hunter Gatherers ◽  
Sociocultural Development ◽  
The Face ◽  
Early Farming

Abstract This article is an attempt to understand the driving forces behind the process of Neolithization in the Eastern Europe Forest zone, where the consumption economy existed till the Bronze or even till the Early Iron Age. Main peculiarities of the sociocultural development in the eastern part of the Gulf of Finland region (EGF) on the transition from Mesolithic to farming societies (sixth – first ka. BC) are discussed in relation to the changes in material culture, subsistence strategy, communication system and settlement pattern. The process of neolithization lasted there for several thousand years. Overview of the dynamics of the social and cultural development in the region revealed several phases of substantial changes in archeological materials (presumably reflecting considerable sociocultural changes). These changes happened later than in the neighboring territories and were preceded by dramatic environmental transformations that affected prehistoric communities in the coastal zone. For the population of the region, innovations could be considered as not “steps toward,” but “retreat in the face of” neolithization. Resistance of the population of EGF to the innovations could be based on environmental conditions that were extremely favorable for hunter–gatherers’ subsistence, but made farming (especially early farming) rather risky.

scholarly journals Spatial variability of concentration and aggressiveness of precipitation in North-East of Algeria

2018 ◽  
Vol 36 (1) ◽  
pp. 3-15 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hanene Bessaklia ◽  
Abderrahmane Nekkache Ghenim ◽  
Abdessalam Megnounif ◽  
Javier Martin-Vide
Keyword(s):  
Concentration Index ◽  
Annual Precipitation ◽  
Monthly Precipitation ◽  
Study Region ◽  
Precipitation Concentration Index ◽  
Precipitation Concentration ◽  
North East ◽  
Mk Test ◽  
High Precipitation ◽  
Extreme North

AbstractIn this study, the spatial variation of daily and monthly concentration precipitation index and its aggressiveness were used in 23 rainfall stations in the extreme north-east of Algeria over the period 1970–2010. The trend was analysed by the Mann–Kendall (MK) test. The results show that daily precipitation concentration index (CI) values are noticeably higher in places where the amount of total precipitation is low, the results of MK test show that areas of high precipitation concentration tend to increase. The seasonality and aggressiveness of precipitation are high in the eastern and western parts of the study region (eastern and central coastal of Constantine catchments), whereas a moderately seasonal distribution with low aggressiveness is found in the middle of the study area (plains and central Seybouse catchment). As a result, the modified Fournier index (MFI) has a significant correlation with annual precipitation, whereas the CI and monthly precipitation concentration index (PCI) show an opposite correlation in relation to annual precipitation.

scholarly journals NEW DATA ON THE EXTENT OF THE LAST PLEISTOCENE GLACIATION IN THE GORNAYA SHORIA

2017 ◽  
Vol 2017 (3) ◽  
pp. 24-26
Author(s):  
Марина Адаменко ◽  
Marina Adamenko ◽  
Ярослав Гутак ◽  
Yaroslav Gutak ◽  
Богдан Воробьев ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Late Pleistocene ◽  
Field Research ◽  
Early Summer ◽  
Mountain Region ◽  
Pleistocene Glaciation ◽  
Mountain Valley ◽  
North East ◽  
Last Glaciation ◽  
Extreme North

The article presents and summarizes the results of a field research on glacial relief of the Gornaya Shoria mountain region, within the Patyn mountain massif. The Patyn-2017 expedition was organized by the Russian Geographic Society. This region has been very poorly studied in the paleogeographical aspect. The available material can give only an approximate assessment of last glaciation in the Gornaya Shoria mountain region. The massif of Mount Patyn (1630 m) is located in the extreme north-east of the Mountain Shoria on the watershed of the Tashtyk and the Mrassu rivers. At present, the massif is completely devoid of modern glaciation. Early summer snowfields appear on the leeward slopes of the eastern, southern and northern macroslopes. The moraine deposits and the configuration of the relief forms have proved mountain-valley glaciation in the Late Pleistocene. The article also touches upon the issue of the origin of the so-called «megaliths» of the massif of Pustag mountain.

scholarly journals Analysis of the material culture and new radiocarbon dating of the Early Neolithic site of Amnya I

2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 149-159
Author(s):  
Ekaterina Nikolaevna Dubovtseva ◽  
Lubov Lvovna Kosinskaya ◽  
Henny Piezonka
Keyword(s):  
Material Culture ◽  
Western Siberia ◽  
Northern Taiga ◽  
Taiga Zone ◽  
Early Neolithic ◽  
Neolithic Site ◽  
Relative Chronology ◽  
The One ◽  
Technological Analysis ◽  
Khanty Mansi Autonomous

The ancient fortified settlement of Amnya I is a unique Early Neolithic site in the northern taiga zone of Western Siberia (Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug, the Amnya river). It is located on a promontory and has three lines of defense and ten dwelling depressions. The structures of the excavated dwellings are very similar, though the artifact assemblage appears rather heterogeneous. We carried out a technical and technological analysis of ceramics, which showed no correlation between the texture, on the one hand, and the morphology and ornamentation of pots on the other one. Planiographic analysis of ceramics showed that vessels with comb and incising patterns are found in different dwellings, although there are objects in which both groups lie together. Various categories of stone implements (bladelets and polished arrowheads) also appear on different parts of the settlement. Most likely, the observed differences in the artefact complexes of objects are associated with the stages of the functioning of the settlement. The absolute chronology does not yet clarify the sequence of erection and existence of objects. New AMS date is probably vulnerable to a significant reservoir effect. The abundance of unsolved issues of absolute and relative chronology makes the resumption of research on this unique site urgent.

Material Culture and Daily Life

2011 ◽  
Author(s):  
CATHERINE HEZSER
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Material Culture ◽  
Daily Life ◽  
Rabbinic Literature ◽  
Critical Study ◽  
Archaeological Research ◽  
Archaeological Data ◽  
The Social ◽  
Interdisciplinary Framework ◽  
Early Byzantine

This chapter evaluates the use of rabbinic literature in the study of Jewish daily life and material culture. It explains that one of the main problems associated with research on material culture and daily life is the establishment of a proper relationship between rabbinic literary references and archaeological data, between text and object. It suggests that these problems can be resolved by approaching the issues on the basis of a historical-critical study of rabbinic sources in a broad interdisciplinary framework, which takes account of archaeological research within the Graeco-Roman and early Byzantine context and which uses tools, methods and models developed by the social sciences.

The Forgotten Child of the Wider Corded Ware Family: Russian Fatyanovo Culture in Context

2020 ◽  
Vol 86 ◽  
pp. 65-93 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kerkko Nordqvist ◽  
Volker Heyd
Keyword(s):  
Material Culture ◽  
Bronze Age ◽  
Cultural Landscape ◽  
Animal Husbandry ◽  
Volga River ◽  
North East ◽  
The North ◽  
European Part Of Russia ◽  
The Baltic ◽  
River Valleys

The Fatyanovo Culture, together with its eastern twin, the Balanovo Culture, forms part of the pan-European Corded Ware Complex. Within that complex, it represents its eastern expansion to the catchment of the Upper and Middle Volga River in the European part of Russia. Its immediate roots are to be found in the southern Baltic States, Belarus, and northern Ukraine (the Baltic and Middle-Dnepr Corded Ware Cultures), from where moving people spread the culture further east along the river valleys of the forested flatlands. By doing so, they introduced animal husbandry to these regions. Fatyanovo Culture is predominately recognised through its material culture imbedded in its mortuary practices. Most aspects of every-day life remain unknown. The lack of an adequate absolute chronological framework has thus far prevented the verification of its internal cultural dynamics while overall interaction proposed also on typo-stratigraphical grounds suggests a contemporaneity with other representations of the Corded Ware Complex in Europe. Fatyanovo Culture is formed by the reverse movement to the (north-)east of the Corded Ware Complex, itself established in the aftermath of the westbound spread of Yamnaya populations from the steppes. It thus represents an important link between west and east, pastoralists and last hunter-gatherers, and the 3rd and the 2nd millennia bc. Through its descendants (including Abashevo, Sintashta, and Andronovo Cultures) it becomes a key component in the development of the wider cultural landscape of Bronze Age Eurasia.

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