Technological features of Beloyarsk culture pottery from the Barsov gorodok III/1 site

Technical and technological analysis ofpottery of the Beloyarsk culture from the Barsov Gorodok III/1 settlement (13 vessels) has shown that a single type of ferruginous clays was used in their production, and four subtypes of clay, differing by the amount of natural sand and natural inclusions of fragments of vegetation stems. Five fabrics were identified, including one unmixed (clay + chamotte) and four mixed. The initial part of one vessel was made following the bottom capacity program when the hollow body was created by means of clay pieces. Vessel surfaces were processed by smoothening and polishing. Seven combinations of different tools for surface treatment have been identified. Firing could be performed in a reducing or semi-reducing medium. Pottery traditions among the carriers of the Beloyarsk culture from the Barsov Gorodok III/1 settlement were similar to traditions of the Beloyarsk culture from the Barsova Gora III/66 settlement. Unmixed fabric with chamotte dominated at both sites. However, no fabrics with sand and organic solutions were found in pottery from the Barsova Gora III/66 site. In its clay + chamotte fabric, the analyzed pottery was similar to the pottery of the Kalinkino culture, although the pottery of the Kalinkino culture was distinguished by weakly sanded ferruginous clays and did not typically used fabrics with additions of grus and organic solutions, and a variety of clay compounds. The similarity with the pottery of the Surgut variant of the Kulaika cultural-historical community is manifested by a number of mixed fabrics at a single settlement and use of clay pieces for shaping the vessels. However, clay + grus fabrics were predominant in the pottery of the Surgut variant of the Kulaika cultural-historical community, and special techniques such as additional decoration of the rim and smoothening with a toothed tool on the inner side of the transition from the shoulder to the body were applied.