RESEARCH AND EXPERIMENTAL REPRODUCTION OF TECHNOLOGIES OF HAND-DRAWN POTTERY OF TRYPILLIAN CULTURE

Abstract

Important components of the study of ancient technologies are their experimental reproduction and use of the methods of natural sciences. Information on the composition of raw materials, formulations of paints and angobs of painted pottery of Trypillian Culture of the Dnieper region gave the possibility to search for the evidences concerning its local origin, according to the researchers. An important component of the study is investigating the process of manufacturing the ceramics from local raw materials, as well as its firing in a pottery ciln built for this purpose. The obtained results allow us to consider quite reasonable previous assumptions about the possibility of local production of a wide range of painted hand-drawn utensils by the Trypillia population of the Dnieper region in the second half of the 4 millennium BC.

Keywords

• trypillian culture
• hand-drawn ceramics
• x-ray fluorescence analysis
• experimental archeology
• pottery pot