Pottery Phenomenon in the Early mounted Nomad communities (“Cimmerian”) in the Northern Pontic region
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https://doi.org/10.24852/2587-6112.2023.4.280.293Keywords:
archaeology, the Northern Pontic region, the Cimmerians, the Early Iron Age, thin section analysis, XRF-WD, m-CT of ceramic, pottery of Early mounted nomads, technology of “burial” potteryAbstract
In the end of the 10th –9th centuries BC in the steppe zone of the Northern Pontic region the communities of the Early mounted nomads (“Cimmerians”) appeared. In their burials different types of pottery were found. In this connection there is the question of the role and place of pottery technologies among mobile early nomadic people in the Early Iron Age. Pottery shards from six different burials (Mayaki 5/1, Kut 32/7, Lymantsy 3/3, Suvorovo 6/1, Semyonovka 2/1, Velikodolinskoye 1/5) were studied by analytic methods such as the thin section analysis, XRF-WD, m-CT. The features of ceramic technology as well as possible raw material sources were reconstructed. The data obtained showed, that pottery was made especially for burial rite. Possible, the nomadic people participated in this process in collaboration with sedentary potters.
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