In 2013, the Livoberezhna Archaeological Expedition made rescue excavations at Vyshenky 1 settlement near village Korop district of Chernihiv region. The is located on edge high right bank Desna River. excavation area 120 m2 more than 20 ancient household pits, a number post-holes and part building 1. addition to some finds Bronze Age Kyiv Rus main materials date 1st millennium AD.
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Ancient fingerprints preserved in clay artefacts can provide demographic information about the people who handled and manufactured them, leaving their marks as an accidental record of a moment’s interaction with material culture. The extracted from these ancient impressions shed light on composition communities practice engaged pottery manufacture. A key component process is comparator dataset ...

Many potteries have been discovered from excavations and a surface survey at Shahdad, but few works have beendone to examine craft specialization in pottery production at this important site. Different types of potteries, some ofwhich bearing potter marks demonstrate that craftsmen of the site had involved in manufacturing of centralized potteryproduction. A number of kilns and many waste of po...

Analysis of organic residues in pottery vessels has been successful in detecting a range of animal and plant products as indicators of food preparation and consumption in the past. However, the identification of plant remains, especially grain crops in pottery, has proved elusive. Extending the spectrum is highly desirable, not only to strengthen our understanding of the dispersal of crops from...

this paper presents the petrographic examination results on the thirteen pottery sherds from the first season of excavation of tepe gratziani in sistan plain. in order to specify whether the pottery were local or imported, conducted experiments have been performed by polarizing microscope of jame swift model in the petrographic lab of the institute of cultural heritage which based on the review...

A geochemical and mineralogical approach was used to analyze 3rd millennium BCE pottery from Southeast Lithuania that is attributed the foreign Corded Ware Culture local hunter-gatherers. SEM-EDS, XRF, XRD, FTIR were study peculiarities of develop hypotheses about raw material technology choices present. The amounts ten major elements in bulk clay matrix compositions (XRF, SEM-EDS) eleven trace...

The study of pottery can be used to provide insight into past cultures. Pottery is ubiquitous on archaeological sites in the Near East and because of its durability; fragments often survive longer than artifacts made from less-durable materials. This study addresses the use of pottery to answer the question: Were Mesopotamia and Elam trading partners from 3000 to 2500 B.C.? Located in present d...

Abstract The energy demand is on the global increase as world economy increasing steadily. Hence, need to develop energy-saving technology with local raw materials and abundant waste becomes paramount. mixtures of Enugu Iva-pottery clay, Nsu clay PKS were evaluated improve quality locally produced refractory for pyro-processing industries. chemical mineralogical composition determined. Eight re...