THE POTTERY KILN OF THE PETROVKA-5 SETTLEMENT IN THE CONTEXT OF THE FAR EAST ARCHAEOLOGY

In Primorye, a kiln for firing ceramic material was excavated at the Petrovka-5 monument near town of Bolshoy Kamen. The furnace occupied northeastern cape-shaped tip hollow slope. height difference its location 1,35 m. erected on flat area paved with broken bricks and baked clay. had shape truncated circle straight end wall south side north. dimensions structure base are 2 × 2,3 m, long is oriented Northwest–Southeast. ceiling made arched masonry in dome. Ceramic vessels tiles were loaded into chamber through southern wall. connected by channel. walls laid horizontal rectangular 15–20 cm long, 5–6 thick. Clay mortar used as bundle laying bricks. By type, oven belongs to round one. ancient times Middle Ages, furnaces this form widely North China. Ceramics deposited represented pots, vases, frying pan lids, tiles. surface color gray, often specially blackened. blackening circular recorded handicraft ceramics Yin, Wei, culture Amur Primorye Jurchens, monuments state Eastern Xia. Modeling carried out using bottom-capacitive filling. shape, do not find complete analogies among medieval cultures region. technical technological characteristics correspond production Far pottery province, dating back traditions Han era. Chinese archaeologists correlated tile periods Jin (317–420) Wei (534–550) dynasties. According radiocarbon analysis coal from fire-chamber furnace, dated 600–760.