Peculiarities of the Use of Rocks by the Population of the White Sea Basin at the End of the Bronze Age and the Early Iron Age

Abstract

The article presents the results of study in the White Sea region of stone inventory and mineral conditioners into the molding mass of ceramic vessels of the end of II millennium BC – second half of I millennium BC. As a result of the spatial and chronological study of artificial mineral inclusions used in the hand-modeling of pottery at the end of the Bronze Age – the Early Iron Age, it was possible to receive new data on cultural and historical processes taking place in the region at that time. The results of statistical and typological analysis of set of stone items, studied by excavations in the White Sea region and dated by altitude location above sea level or associated with a certain type of ceramics are presented. The chronological stages in the development of the stone industry revealed in the course of the study are compared with the data on metalworking in the White Sea basin. The article for the first time publishes the results of radiocarbon analysis of some objects excavated on the territory of Karelia: complexes with Luukonsaari and Lebyazhye types ceramics, iron-smelting furnace in the form of a stone box.

Keywords

• archaeology
• bronze age
• early iron age
• white sea
• ceramic inclusions
• asbestos
• mica
• stone inventory
• iron-smelting furnace