THE CHARACTERISTICS OF THE CERAMIC COMPLEX OF THE NOVOILINKA SETTLEMENT (NORTH KULUNDA)
Abstract
The article presents the results of a study on the ceramics from the Novoilinka settlement (Northern Kulunda), associated with the main Sargary-Alekseevsky complex. The analyzed pottery is а few in number, but culturally diverse. The following groups of vessels are identified: Andronovo, Dandybaevskaya, Irmenskaya, Dongalskaya, transitional period from the Late to the Final Bronze Age, hybrid ridge-shaped, ceramic, made with potter wheel, burnished pots with flutes along the neck. A comprehensive analysis was conducted, including the study of vessel forms and ornamentation, raw materials, and modeling pastes. The results indicate that the site was in use throughout the entire period from the mature Bronze Age to the transitional phase from the Bronze Age to the Early Iron Age. Its ceramic complex includes a series of multicultural ceramics, recorded in a number of synchronous settlements of the region. The results of the first technical and technological analysis of ceramic samples from the Novoilinka settlement indicate the prevalence of recipes using one type of mineral admixture in most groups. Recipes with chamotte are typical of the Andronovo ware, ceramics of the transitional type from the developed to the late Bronze Age (subgroup 1), Irmen and, apparently, pots with flutes along the neck associated with the latter, as well as Dongal ceramics. The gruss was recorded in the Dandybaevskaya, hybrid comb, and ceramics of the transitional type from the developed to the late Bronze Age (subgroups 2, 3). The prevalence of “pure” recipes (only gruss or chamotte) is a feature of the settlement collection. A mixture of traditions was recorded only in the Irmen and hybrid comb ceramics (subgroup 2). Thus, the materials from the Novoilinka settlement indicate the existence of a population with different cultural traditions here. A small proportion of vessels made according to “mixed” recipes may indicate a weak process of interaction and mixing of the population at the site. It can be assumed that during the Bronze Age and the transitional period, the settlement was a kind of “transit” point for carriers of various cultural traditions.
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