Methods of Natural Sciences for the Reconstruction of the Ceramics Firing

M.N.  Vetrova; M.A.  Kulkova; M.T.  Kashuba; N.A.  Gavrylyuk; Ya.P.  Gershkovych; E.  Kaiser; A.M.  Kulkov

doi:10.15407/archaeologyua2019.01.131

M.N. Vetrova St. Petersburg State University http://orcid.org/0000-0002-8591-6178
M.A. Kulkova RSPU named after A.I. Herzen http://orcid.org/0000-0001-9946-8751
M.T. Kashuba Institute of the History of Material Culture of the Russian Academy of Sciences http://orcid.org/0000-0001-8901-8116
N.A. Gavrylyuk Institute of Archaeology of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine http://orcid.org/0000-0002-2369-5701
Ya.P. Gershkovych Institute of Archaeology of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine http://orcid.org/0000-0002-5915-1300
E. Kaiser Free University of Berlin
A.M. Kulkov St. Petersburg State University http://orcid.org/0000-0002-2001-2231

DOI: https://doi.org/10.15407/archaeologyua2019.01.131

Keywords: Northern Black Sea region, Early Iron Age, sedentary population, early nomads, diffraction thermogravimetric analysis, X-ray phase analysis, firing temperature.

Abstract

The reconstruction of the Early Iron Age ceramics firing from the Northern Black Sea region is a part of the project`s tasks of studying the ceramics of mobile and sedentary communities in the region (early nomads and the forest-steppe population). The ceramics firing process and the content of mineral phases were determined by DTA-TG methods. Data are given on five samples from the settlements of Glinjeni II-La Shanz and Subotiv, as well as the burials of Kasperovka, Pryshyb and Velykodolynske. In the paper mineralogical and phase composition of ceramic samples are revealed. It is established that the analyzed samples were burned at a temperature not exceeding 650 °C.

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