Peculiarities of Intercultural Interaction in the Early Iron Age in the Surgut Ob River Region (by materials of the ceramics of the settlement Barsova Gora III/66)

Abstract

The article presents the results of technical and technological analysis of ceramics from the settlement of the Beloyarka culture Barsova Gora III/66. There are three groups of pottery. Group 1 includes ceramics of the Beloyarka culture. It is characterized by the use of low-sand ferruginous natural clays, possibly pre-treated. The main forming mass recipe is unmixed: clay + chamotte. Group 2 includes pottery of a mixed appearance with an admixture of grit. It could have been made in the settlement by potters with mixed pottery skills, which were formed as a result of integration (possibly marriage) contacts between the bearers of the Beloyarka culture and the bearers of other pottery traditions, probably the Kulma and Itkul cultures. Group 3 includes an imported vessel with an artificial addition of metallurgical slag. It reflects the contacts of the Beloyarka population of Barsova Gora with groups of other cultures, from whom a metal could be imported for the production of various items. The selected groups may reflect active integration processes and intercultural contacts between the bearers of the Beloyarka culture on Barsova Gora and representatives of other cultures. These links could be both trade and exchange in nature, when the Beloyarka people imported metal for the production of items, and marriage, when some carriers of pottery traditions found their way to the Beloyarka settlements, as a result of which there was a mixture of skills in technology, shaping and ornamentation of ceramics.

Keywords

• archaeology
• western siberia
• early iron age
• barsova gora
• beloyarka culture
• imported ceramics
• pottery