COLLECTIONS OF CLAY PRODUCTS FROM A PALAEOETHNOBOTANICAL POINT OF VIEW


Keywords: clay products, palaeoethnobotany, grain, factors of penetration, palaeoethnobotanical spectrum (PBS), grain economy.

Abstract

The basis of the study is the work of N. M. Kravchenko and G. O. Pashkevych in 1985 with the addition of the author’s observations. The author analyzed options for the penetration of palaeoethnobotanical materials into the moulding compound as well as their value for interpreting these findings.

The reasons for penetration of materials to molding compound, groups of clay products and their informative value, advantages and disadvantages of this method of information gathering and further perspectives of research and interpretation were reviewed.

Plant impurities were found in most categories of clay products. Conventionally they include utensils, probable architectural details and / or «stationary» utensils, tools as well as figurines, and other products that have no practical application. According to the scheme proposed by N. M. Kravchenko and G. O. Pashkevych four factors of the penetration of plant residues into the molding compound were identified. Factor 4 «The use of vegetable impurities as a backing between the stand and the crude billet of clay product (pot, vessel)» is of the less informative value. Its value could lie in the possibility to establish the season of manufacturing of pottery due to the backing. Factor 2 «Adding grain to a molding compound for ritual purpose» now can be significantly expanded due to ordinary household items, such as large pots for grain storage, firepans / pans and even furnaces. Factor 1 «Technological technique, in which crushed plant mass was added to reduce shrinkage of products during their drying and firing» also usually does not add information about palaeoethnobotanical materials. The only factor important for statistical surveys and the establishment of the grain economy is factor 3 «Accidental ingress of grains or seeds into the molding compound during the manufacture of pottery».

References

Bobrinskii, A. A. 1978. Goncharstvo Vostochnoi Evropy. Moskva: Nauka.

Gorbanenko, S. A. 2013. Paleoetnobotanicheskie materialy s Zhivotinnogo gorodishcha (po otpechatkam na izdeliiakh iz gliny). Drevnosti 2013, 12, s. 273-282.

Horbanenko, S. A. 2014. Zernove hospodarstvo siverian. Arkheolohiia, 1, s. 113-123.

Horbanenko, S. A. 2018. «Mahichnyi» posud davnikh slov’ian. In Sclavenia terra, 2, s. 93-112.

Horbanenko, S. A. 2019a. Paleoetnobotanichni vyznachennia vidbytkiv na vyrobakh z hlyny z rozkopok kyivskoho Arsenalu. Arkheolohiia, 1, s. 135-138.

Horbanenko, S. 2019b. Paleoetnobotanichni doslidzhennia serednovichnoi keramiky z Khotynskoi fortetsi. In: Arkheolohiia Bukovyny: zdobutky ta perspektyvy: Tezy dopovidei III Мizhnarodnoho naukovoho seminaru, prysviachenoho 100-littiu vid dnia narodzhennia vidomoho naukovtsia Borysa Tymoshchuka (m. Chernivtsi, 13 hrudnia 2019 r.). Chernivtsi: Tekhnodruk, s. 39-41.

Horbanenko, S. A., Pashkevych, H. O. 2010. Zemlerobstvo davnikh slov’ian (kinets I tys. do n. e. — I tys. n. e.). Kyiv: Akademperiodyka.

Horbanenko, S. A., Puholovok, Yu. O. 2014. Pich piznoromenskoho chasu z Poltavy. In: Ivakin, H. Yu. (ed.). Vid venediv do Rusi. Zbirnyk naukovykh prats na poshanu dokt. istor. nauk, prof. D. N. Kozaka z nahody yoho 70-littia. Kyiv; Kharkiv: IA NAN Ukriany; Maidan, s. 339-344.

Kravchenko, N. M., Pashkevich, G. A. 1985. Nekotorye problemy paleobotanicheskikh issledovanii (po materialam Obukhovskoi territorialnoi gruppy pamiatnikov I tys. n. e.). In: Gening, V. F. (ed.). Arkheologiia i metody istoricheskikh rekonstruktsii. Kiev: Naukova dumka, s. 177-190.

Onohda, O. V. 2018. Kompleks iz polyv’ianoiu keramikoiu druhoi polovyny XV — pershoi polovyny XVI st. (za materialamy rozkopok Staroho Arsenalu v Kyievi). Arkheolohiia i davnia istoriia Ukrainy, 4 (29), s. 246-253.

Pashkevych, H. O., Horbanenko, S. A. 2019. Paleoetnobotanichni doslidzhennia. Dodatok N 7. In: Skoryi, S. A., Bilozor, V. P., Suprunenko, O. B., Kulatova, I. M. Selyshcha skifskoho chasu v systemi Velykoho ukriplennia Bilskoho horodyshcha. Kyiv: Maidan, s. 320-328.

Pashkevich, G. A., Terpilovskii, R. V. 1981. Selskoe khoziaistvo desninskikh plemen III—V vv. In: Bidzilia, V. I. (ed.). Ispolzovanie metodov estestvennykh nauk v arkheologii. Kiev: Naukova dumka, s. 93-113.

Svystun, H. Ye., Pashkevych, H. O., Horbanenko, S. A. 2010. Pichka XVII st. z vidbytkamy zernivok z Chuhuivskoho horodyshcha. Novi doslidzhennia pam’iatok kozatskoi doby v Ukraini, 19, s. 148-156.

Skinkaitis, V. V. 2014. Keramicheskii kompleks zolotoordynskogo vremeni s poseleniia Chernyshova gora. Verkhnedonskoi arkheologicheskii sbornik, 6: Materialy mezhregionalnoi nauchnoi konferentsii «Arkheologiia vostochnoevropeiskoi lesostepi: poiski, nakhodki, problemy», posviashchennoi 125-letiiu pervykh arkheologicheskikh raskopok pod egidoi IAK v Lipetskom krae (byvsh. Zadonskom uezde Voronezhskoi gub.), g. Lipetsk, 20—22 dekabria 2013 g., s. 584-588.

Suprunenko, O. B., Skoryi, S. A., Puholovok, Yu. O. 2010. Doslidzhennia na poselenni piznoskifskoho chasu v uroch. Pole druhoi bryhady u Bilsku (2008—2009 rr.). Arkheolohichni doslidzhennia v Ukraini 2009 r., s. 404-407.

Terpilovskii, R. V. 1984. Rannie slaviane Podesenia ІІІ—V vv. Kiev: Naukova dumka.

Ianushevich, Z. V., Markevich, V. I. 1970. Arkheologicheskie nakhodki kulturnykh zlakov na pervobytnykh poseleniiakh Pruto-Dnestrovskogo mezhdurechia. In: Ianushevich, Z. V. (ed.). Introduktsiia kulturnykh rastenii. Kishinev: Shtiintsa, s. 83-110.


Abstract views: 103
PDF Downloads: 127
Published
2020-03-01
How to Cite
Gorbanenko, S. A. (2020). COLLECTIONS OF CLAY PRODUCTS FROM A PALAEOETHNOBOTANICAL POINT OF VIEW. Archaeology and Early History of Ukraine, 34(1), 202-207. https://doi.org/10.37445/adiu.2020.01.13