Комплекс ранней керамики поселения Алексеевка-I (проблемы хронологии, периодизации и культурной принадлежности)

Abstract

The article considers the publication of a complex of ceramic dishes found at the Alekseevka-I settlement (Uglovsky district of the Altai Territory). The cultural layer of the monument was destroyed, which creates problems for determining of the chronology, periodization and cultural identity of the recorded materials. In the collection of ceramics from the Alekseyevka-I settlement a group of ceramics (about 150 specimens) is distinguished, which can be dated to the Neolithic and the Aeneolithic. According to the peculiarities of ornamentation, there are ten groups of dishes. The conducted studies recorded a mixture of ornamental traditions, which most likely reflects the interaction of various groups of the population. Fragments of pottery from the Alekseevka-I settlement have similarities with the Neolithic ceramics of the southwestern regions of the Altai Territory and the Pavlodar Priirtyshye. Also we have traced the features of similarity with the Eneolithic ceramics of North Kulunda and the Barnaul-Biysk Ob area. In the composition of the ceramic collections of the Alekseevka-I settlement, a distinguished group of dishes is decorated with a “pearl” along the aureole. This ornamental device is found on four vessels decorated with prints of a comb stamp, pits, nails, prints of a rope and a “pseudo-toothed stamp”. A feature of this group of dishes is a large amount of organic stuff visually fixed in the slices. The designated group of ceramics has a complex of features which make it stand out against the background of known materials of the Neolithic and Eneolithic age of the south of Western Siberia.