PAINTED POTTERY FROM OZHEVE-OSTRIV SETTLEMENT AND ITS FACTOR IN THE UNDERSTANDING OF CULTURAL CHANGES IN THE POPULATION OF CUCUTENI-TRYPILLIA CULTURAL COMPLEX OF BI STAGE

Abstract

The characteristics of the painted pottery of the Ozheve-ostriv settlement is considered in the paper. Despite the small percentage of painted pottery among the ceramic complex of the Ozheve-ostriv this category is extremely important for determining the place of the settlement in the cultural-chronological structure of the Cucuteni-Trypillia cultural complex. By techniques all the painted vessels of the settlement have common features with the exception of the system of styles — the sequence of applying paint to the surface of the vessel. The styles identified at the settlement are characterized as synchronous, taking into account that features characteristic of the previous phase of the period (Cucuteni A3) and the synchronous phase (Cucuteni A4) have survived. Some of the forms presented at the settlement are also characterized by the forms of the previous phase, although new ones also appear (pear-shaped vessels with vertical crowns, helmet-shaped tires). With minor exceptions, the main stylistic features of the vessels in the form of ornamental schemes have also survived.
 Due to the comparison of this pottery with the sites of the stage BI, it is possible to attribute this settlement to the Northern Moldovan local variant of the late phase of the stage BI (Cucuteni A4). Local variants of this phase are also synchronous with the settlement of Ozheve-ostriv. The issue of the synchronicity of the settlement with other ones such as Corlăteni and Vorniceni, characteristic of Cucuteni AB1 settlements, is considered separately.
 It is proposed to assume a gradual resettlement of the population of the Cucuteni-Trypillia cultural complex to the territory of Middle Dniester region, in contrast to those processes of migratory «burst» that took place in the previous phase of the BI stage. In addition, attention is drawn to a certain «dependence» of cultural traditions on the region of the «core» of culture — Romanian Carpathian Region. The reasons for such dependence could be the general economic situation among the populations of the stage BI, when the population of the «core» of the culture could supply «prestige» objects made of copper in exchange for products of the raw material direction.