17th and Beginning of 18th Centuries Pottery from Baturyn: Typology and Chronology

Abstract

 Described in this article is the 17th and the beginning of the 18th centuries pottery from Baturyn. T he known dates of the site’s existence, as well as the peculiarities of its history, allow the author to record during the excavations the five chronological horizons, three of which correspond to the chronological frames of the research. T he II (Polish) is dated by the period from the Baturyn’s foundation in the 1620-s to 1648; the III (Cossacks’) cover the period from 1648 to moving the capital of Hetmanate to this city in 1669; and IV (Hetman’s) is dated by the period from 1669 to 1708. Within each of horizons on the territory of various topographic parts the narrower chronologic segments up to 7—15 years each. S uch stratigraphic peculiarity of the site makes the ceramic from its territory to be suitable for the development of typological and chronological schemes. A division into types is made based on the most informative morphologic features proposed by L. Chmil. As a result, the obtained types of each variant of pottery in fact corresponded to the types determined by L. Chmil based on the materials of the Dnipro River middle region. Correlation of pottery types in each narrow chronological horizon allowed the author to trace the ceramics’ evolution and to determine the frames of each type functioning. A developed chronological and typological scale can be used for dating the objects within the borders of Baturyn and the Dnipro River northern left bank region.