TY - JOUR

T1 - Pottery of Early Iron Age from the Glinjeni II-La Șanț (North-Western Pontic Sea Region): Composition, Technology and Raw Material Sources

AU - Kulkova, Marianna A.

AU - Kashuba, Maya T.

AU - Kulkov, Aleksandr M.

AU - Vetrova, Maria N.

N1 - Publisher Copyright: © 2021 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland.

PY - 2021/12

Y1 - 2021/12

N2 - 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.

AB - 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.

KW - pottery of Early Iron Age; raw clay sources; archaeometry; Glinjeni II-La Șanț; North- Western Pontic Sea region; XRF-WD; thin section analysis; SEM-EDX of ceramics; m-CT of pottery

KW - pottery of Early Iron Age

KW - raw clay sources

KW - archaeometry

KW - Glinjeni II-La Șanț

KW - NorthWestern Pontic Sea region

KW - XRF-WD

KW - thin section analysis

KW - SEM-EDX of ceramics; m-CT of pottery

KW - North-Western Pontic Sea region

KW - Raw clay sources

KW - SEM-EDX of ceramics

KW - Archaeometry

KW - Thin section analysis

KW - M-CT of pottery

KW - Pottery of Early Iron Age

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U2 - 10.3390/heritage4040160

DO - 10.3390/heritage4040160

M3 - Article

VL - 4

SP - 2853

EP - 2875

JO - Heritage

JF - Heritage

SN - 2571-9408

IS - 4

ER -