Kulai ceramics from settlements in the Novosibirsk Ob region: technological distinctive traits

The paper describes the technical and technological analysis of Kulai ceramics from settlements in the Novosibirsk Ob region. Its aim is to reconstruct the pottery production process developed by the Novosibirsk variant of the Kulai culture from the settlement sites in the Novosibirsk Ob region. The technical and technological analysis was performed based on the methodology proposed by A. A. Bobrinsky. The analysis found that at various settlements the potters selected raw material from various clay pits, they had similar skills of constructing a hollow body and firing, and surface treatment methods. All this suggests common traditions of the population that left behind these sits. Differences in preparing clay paste at various settlements can be linked to chronological differences of the sites as well as contacts between the Novosibirsk group of the Kulai culture and other cultural groups. The Kamenny Mys cemetery and the Dubrovinsky Borok-4 settlement demonstrate the closest similarity in clay vessel production technology. It may be an evidence of these cultures being close chronologically, it also suggests that they were probably left behind by the same local group.