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Raw Materials in the Paste of Ceramics of the Kulaika Culture Surgut Variant (Based on Samples from Barsova Gora)
https://doi.org/10.17746/1563-0110.2024.52.3.067-074
Abstract
A multidisciplinary analysis of ceramics from six sites of the Surgut variant of the Kulaika culture at Barsova Gora was made. Technology was assessed using traceological, petrographic, and X-ray phase analyses. At all the sites, the potters used ferruginous clays tempered with grus, grog, sand, and organic material. Fragments in the clay were either rounded, as in sand, or coarse, as in grus. The sand was mainly represented by feldspar and quartz, suggesting that this type of raw material was extracted from nearby non-metallic mineral deposits. The grus consisted of fragments of basaltoids, amphiboles, and pyroxenes, evidencing that it came from igneous common rocks associated with the Surgut volcanic fi eld and spread over a large area. Rocks were probably mined near settlements, perhaps on the floodplain of the Ob. Grog in all the samples was similar to the basic clay in terms of its composition. Three groups of sites were identified, differing in the composition of the clay of which the ceramics were made. This may indicate the presence of several groups within the Iron Age Kulaika population, utilizing various sources of clay.
Keywords
Archaeology,
Early Iron Age,
Surgut stretch of the Ob,
Kulaika culture,
pottery,
multidisciplinary approach
Supporting agencies: This study was supported by the Russian Science Foundation: ceramics research (petrography, XRF, analysis of results) under Project No. 23-78-01192, analysis of specifi c features of the sites’ chronology under Project No. 24-28-00650.
About the Authors
D. V. Selin
Institute of Archaeology and Ethnography, Siberian Branch, Russian Academy of Sciences
Russian Federation
Russian Federation
Selin D.V. - Senior Researcher
pr. Akademika Lavrentieva 17, Novosibirsk, 630090
A. A. Maksimova
Trofimuk Institute of Petroleum Geology and Geophysics, Siberian Branch, Russian Academy of Sciences
Russian Federation
Russian Federation
Maksimova A.A. - Junior Researcher
pr. Akademika Koptyuga 3, Novosibirsk, 630090
Y. P. Chemyakin
Yeltsin Ural Federal University
Russian Federation
Russian Federation
Chemyakin Y.P. - Associate Professor, Senior Researcher
pr. Lenina 51, Yekaterinburg, 620075
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Selin D.V., Maksimova A.A., Chemyakin Y.P. Raw Materials in the Paste of Ceramics of the Kulaika Culture Surgut Variant (Based on Samples from Barsova Gora). Archaeology, Ethnology & Anthropology of Eurasia. 2024;52(3):67-74. https://doi.org/10.17746/1563-0110.2024.52.3.067-074
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