Abstract
Transition to the Early Iron Age was marked by the appearance of innovations such as iron technology and changes in the lifestyle of local societies on the territory of the North-Western Pontic Sea region. One of the most interesting sites of this period is the Glinjeni II-La Șanț fortified settlement, located in the Middle Dniester basin (Republic of Moldova). Materials of different cultural traditions belonged to the Cozia-Saharna culture (10th–9th cc. BC) and the Basarabi-Șoldănești culture (8th–beginning of 7th cc. BC) were found on this site. The article presents the results of a multidisciplinary approach to the study of ceramic sherds from these archaeological complexes and cultural layers as well as raw clay sources from this area. The archaeometry analysis, such as the XRF-WD, the thin section analysis, SEM-EDX of ceramics, m-CT of pottery were carried out. The study of ancient pottery through a set of mineralogical and geochemical analytic methods allowed us to obtain new results about ceramic technology in different chronological periods, ceramic paste recipes and firing conditions. Correlation of archaeological and archaeometry data of ceramics from the Glinjeni II-La Șanț site gives us the possibility to differ earlier and later chronological markers in the paste recipes of pottery of 10th–beginning of 7th cc. BC in the region of the Middle Dniester basin.
Highlights
The modern analytic methods widely used in archaeology for ancient ceramic studies allow us to construct the relative chronology and to reconstruct the cultural and historical processes for the different areas of prehistoric Europe [1]
The North-Western Pontic Sea region at the beginning of 1st millennium BC was occupied by societies with different cultural traditions
The Glinjeni II-La S, ant, fortified settlement was occupied by societies of the earlier Cozia-Saharna and the later Basarabi-S, oldănes, ti cultures during the 10th–beginning of 7th cc
Summary
The modern analytic methods widely used in archaeology for ancient ceramic studies allow us to construct the relative chronology and to reconstruct the cultural and historical processes for the different areas of prehistoric Europe [1]. BC, the first iron-making technologies had occurred in the CarpathianDanube basin and the Northern Pontic Sea region. The first chronological schema of the Late Bronze–Early Iron Age cultures for the Middle Dniester region was based on traditional archaeological methods. The following sequence for cultural “outsider” traditions was developed: (1) Chis, inău-Corlăteni, (2) Basarabi-S, oldănes, ti, and (3) Cozia-Saharna [15,16] These cultures were known as Thracian in historiography, but at present they were renamed the Carpathian-Danubian or Hallstattian [17,18]. The pottery of these cultural traditions is characterized by quality polish black or gray-black (rare light orange) walls decorated by fluting and/or a geometric carving ornament with white (rare with red) paste inlay
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