Specifi c Features of the Pottery Complex from the Kalinovka II Settlement (Eastern Kulunda)
Year: 2025
Type: article
Abstract: This study follows up a series of publications on the comprehensive research of the pottery collection from the settlement of Kalinovka II (Eastern Kulunda) – one of the most thoroughly studied sites of the Advanced—Late Bronze Age in the forest-steppe Altai. The article presents the analysis of small but culturally diverse pottery assemblage of the Late Bronze Age and transitional period from the Bronze Age to Early Iron Age. Several groups of vessels which were identified had parallels to pottery from the synchronous sites in the Kulunda Steppe (Zharkovo-3 in Central Kulunda, Rublevo VI and VIII in Southern Kulunda, and Burla-3 and Novoilinka in Northern Kulunda). These groups included burnished pots with fluting on the neck, Irmen-Dongal style pottery, pottery made on a potter’s wheel, and transitional vessels from the Bronze Age to Early Iron Age. Technical and technological analysis of the collection revealed three different fabric recipes: clay + chamotte + organic material; clay + chamotte + gruss + organic material, and clay without artificial additives. It was also established that vessels produced using the clay + chamotte + + organic material recipe predominated in most of the studied groups. These results confirm the earlier evidence on the predominance of local cultural traditions in pottery production, indicating less active interaction between the populations of two distinct landscape zones (forest-steppe Altai and Kazakhstan) compared to the more western areas of the Kulunda.
Subfield: Archeology
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: diamond
OpenAlex ID: W7126164087
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