Ceramics of the Old Bering Sea Culture from the Kozhevnikov Cliff Site (Cape Schmidt): Features of Pottery Technology

• DOI: 10.15688/nav.jvolsu.2024.2.8
• Publication Date: 2024-07-03T08:24:24Z
• Authors: Dmitry Selin; Alexander Lebedin...; ; Pavel Grebenyuk; ; Alexander Fedorch...
• Keywords: Cliff; Cape

During the excavations of a dugout at Kozhevnikov Cliff site (Cape Schmidt), N.N. Dikov obtained collection pottery vessels Old Bering Sea culture (fourteen specimens). The technology ceramic production was analyzed using methodology developed by A.A. Bobrinsky. It determined that potters selected iron-rich clays two subtypes, differing in amount natural sand content, for production. Five recipes molding clay were identified, including three unmixed: 1) + (7 specimens); 2) wool (3 3) organic solution (2 and mixed – 4) (1 specimen); 5) specimen). made base form, shape additionally formed paddling. On outer surface one artifact, strap handle with an ear threading cord made, remaining hole on inside patched cloth scrap. surfaces treated mechanical smoothing hard-smooth tool and/or fingers. Firing took place temperatures above calcination could be done bonfires or hearths. heterogeneity traditions found among population living dugout. identified two-component as result mixing adaptive skills bearers different making unmixed clay. This indicates beginning cultural integration processes began to occur under dominance tradition low-sanded first subtype artificial addition 1 : concentration.