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Transition to the Early Iron Age was marked by the appearance of innovations such as iron technology and changes in the lifestyle of local societies on the territory of the North-Western Pontic Sea region. One of the most interesting sites of this period is the Glinjeni II-La Șanț fortified settlement, located in the Middle Dniester basin (Republic of Moldova). Materials of different cultural traditions belonged to the Cozia-Saharna culture (10th–9th cc. BC) and the Basarabi-Șoldănești culture (8th–beginning of 7th cc. BC) were found on this site. The article presents the results of a multidisciplinary approach to the study of ceramic sherds from these archaeological complexes and cultural layers as well as raw clay sources from this area. The archaeometry analysis, such as the XRF-WD, the thin section analysis, SEM-EDX of ceramics, m-CT of pottery were carried out. The study of ancient pottery through a set of mineralogical and geochemical analytic methods allowed us to obtain new results about ceramic technology in different chronological periods, ceramic paste recipes and firing conditions. Correlation of archaeological and archaeometry data of ceramics from the Glinjeni II-La Șanț site gives us the possibility to differ earlier and later chronological markers in the paste recipes of pottery of 10th–beginning of 7th cc. BC in the region of the Middle Dniester basin.

Translated title of the contributionКерамика Раннего Железного века памятника Хлижени"-Ла Сант (регион Северное Причерноморье): Состав,технология, источники сырья
Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)2853-2875
Number of pages23
JournalHeritage
Volume4
Issue number4
DOIs
StatePublished - Dec 2021

    Scopus subject areas

  • Archaeology
  • Conservation
  • Materials Science (miscellaneous)

    Research areas

  • pottery of Early Iron Age, raw clay sources, archaeometry, Glinjeni II-La Șanț, NorthWestern Pontic Sea region, XRF-WD, thin section analysis, SEM-EDX of ceramics; m-CT of pottery, North-Western Pontic Sea region, Raw clay sources, SEM-EDX of ceramics, Archaeometry, Thin section analysis, M-CT of pottery, Pottery of Early Iron Age

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