A New Study of Pottery from the Settlements of Atasu and Myrzhyk

  • А.З. Бейсенов A. Kh. Margulan Institute of Archaeology (Almaty, Kazakhstan) Email: azbeisenov@mail.ru
  • В.Г. Ломан Buketov Karaganda State University (Karaganda, Kazakhstan) Email: lvg7@yandex.ru
DOI_disc_logo https://doi.org/10.14258/izvasu(2017)2-38
Keywords: Central Kazakhstan, the Bronze Age, technicaltechnological analyses of ceramics, settlements, Fedorov culture, Alakul culture, Sargary-Alexeev culture

Abstract

The sites of the Atasu Basin were opened in the second half of the 1940s by A.H. Margulan. At present new studies are being conducted in the region. Two cultural and chronological horizons have been distinguished on the Atasu and Myrzhyk settlements – from Andronovo time and the Late Bronze Age — which are reflected in the presented materials. Formal typological, formal statistical and technical-technological analysis of ceramics have been held. The research has been made of the main elements of the ornament, the methods of their application. Technical and technological analysis conducted by the method of A. Bobrinsky showed the presence of three kinds of feedstock and six paste recipes at Fedorov ceramics of the Atasu settlement, as well as the two main ways of hollow body constructing – patchwork-lumpy and spiral patchwork. Sargary-Alekseevo ceramics, represented by two vessels, was made by a single recipe (clay + grog + gruss) of the patchwork lumpy technique. Sargary-Alekseevo ceramics of the Myrzhyk settlement demonstrated a great variety of feedstock (6 types) and the paste recipes (6 types) and also the methods of hollow body making including a patchwork-lumpy one- and two-layered method, the spiral coil-building and ring coil-building ones. The identification was made of imported vessels with atypical for this site pottery technology. Thus, data of the technical and technological analysis of pottery obtained from the two complexes (the Atasu and Myrzhyk settlements) showed the differences in cultural traditions in all the studied stages of pottery production which may indicate the cohabitation on each site of several groups of ancient people.

DOI 10.14258/izvasu(2017)2-38

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Author Biographies

А.З. Бейсенов, A. Kh. Margulan Institute of Archaeology (Almaty, Kazakhstan)
кандидат исторических наук, заведующий отделом первобытной археологии
В.Г. Ломан, Buketov Karaganda State University (Karaganda, Kazakhstan)
кандидат исторических наук, директор Сарыаркинского археологического института

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Бейсенов А., Ломан В. A New Study of Pottery from the Settlements of Atasu and Myrzhyk // Izvestiya of Altai State University, 1, № 2(94) DOI: 10.14258/izvasu(2017)2-38. URL: http://izvestiya.asu.ru/article/view/%282017%292-38.
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No 2(94) (2017): Известия Алтайского государственного университета
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