Pottery of the end of I millennium b.c. - first half of I millennium a.d. from the excavations of the settlement Ust-Kedva on the river Vym’

The purpose of this publication is the introduction in the scientific turnover of a ceramic complex of the end of I Millennium B.C. of the settlement of Ust-Kedva in the Knyazhpogost region of the Komi Republic, discovered by V.A.Semenov. The site is located on a 7-meters upland terrace at the mouth of the river Kasyan-Kedva (left tributary of the river Vym') forming together with the Belaya Kedva river (left tributary of the river Izhma) one of the waterways connecting the basins of the rivers Vychegda and Pechora. Housing depressions of the Eneolithic-Bronze Age, complexes of findings of the various stages of the Iron Age are studied. Ceramic complex of the end of I Millennium B.C. - first half of the I Millennium A.D. is represented by fragments of not less than 7 vessels. Most of them contain admixture of shell in clay paste, in one case - gravel, in another case - organics are fixed. Vessels with barely outlined low neck and tiny vessels without a neck are found. The rim and the upper part of the vessel are deco- rated. Along the rim the ornament is made by notches and stamped dentils, one miniature cup is not ornamented. In the upper part of the vessel the pattern is formed by notches, pits, corded imprints. Two miniature vessels do not contain patterns on the vessel. Pottery with such ornamentation is characteristic of the sites of Glyadenovo culture on the territory of European North-East (Dzhudzhy- dyag and Pidzh archaeological cultures), that makes it possible to include ceram- ics with carved ornamentation of Ust-Kedva settlement in the range of antiqui- ties of Glyadenovo culture. Impurities of shell, organic matter to clay paste, or- namentation of ceramics by notches, cord enable us to refer the site to Dzhudz- hydyag archaeological culture of the Vychegda basin. The presence in the collec- tion of a fragment of vessel with the admixture of gravel to clay paste, deco- rated with pits opening ornamental area, and notches, is typical for Pidzh arc- haeological culture of the Pechora basin and is the evidence of ethno-cultural ties of the population of the two regions.