The Køkkenmødding of Eastern Ukraine

Hunter-fisher-gatherer pottery production and use at the Neolithic shell-midden of Riņņukalns, Latvia

“…Shell temper is likewise infrequently used in the pottery of Neolithic agricultural communities in Western or South-east Europe (Spataro 2019: 378–79); it is, however, present in late fifth-/early fourth-millennium BC Trypillia cooking pots and coarse wares in Ukraine (Starkova & Zakościelna 2018), despite the lack of shell middens. Hunter-fisher-gatherer pottery from the Novoselivka III shell midden in eastern Ukraine was shell-tempered (Telizhenko 2018: 26), unlike pottery from shell-midden sites elsewhere. Locally made Neolithic Impressed Ware ceramics at Cabeço das Amoreiras in Portugal, for example, were either grog-tempered or not tempered at all (Diniz & Cubas 2015), while in fourth-millennium BC Japan, Jōmon ceramics made at sites with shell middens were rock-tempered, as was pottery made at nearby sites without shell middens (Kojo 1981).…”

Sturgeons in materials from archaeological sites of Ukraine: A review

“…The weight and size of some fish individuals were estimated according to the approach proposed by results by catching and correcting potential mistakes, providing analyses with maximal accuracy (Whitlock, 2011), generating new questions based on reconsideration of the old material (e.g., Volynskyi & Kovalchuk, 2023), increasing visibility of particular studies, and, respectively, reducing the risk of information loss (Capocasa et al, 2016;Nagaraj et al, 2020). This is especially relevant in the conditions of the full-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine, which, among other things, led to the damage and/or complete destruction of archaeological sites and scientific institutions because of hostilities, the impossibility of conducting full-fledged fieldwork, and collecting material due to the presence of mines in certain territories and the occupation of others (see Bujskikh et al, 2023;Telizhenko, 2023 for more details).…”