Traditions of Ceramic Production in the Central and Eastern Europe Eneolithic: Tripolye, Late Malice and Lublin-Volhynian Cultures

Abstract

In the area of the Podolsk Upland and the Upper Dniester in the second half of the 5 th and first half of the 4 th millennia BC the communities of three Eneolithic cultures periodically co-existed: Tripolye (stages BII, CI), Malice (late phase) and Lublin-Volhynian (classical phase). For these cultures, the mentioned area was a peripheral zone of ranges upon which various mutual relations, manifested in ceramic and flint production, took place. The most explicit evidence of intercultural relations are manifested in the pottery production, when the technical and stylistic traditions are diffused among culturally different communities, living on the same or neighbouring territories. To identify the nature of the intercultural relationship, an analysis of selected ceramic collections was carried out, taking into account the successive stages of production: raw material selection, ceramic mass preparation, forming vessels along with surface treatment, decorating and firing. We also used petrographic analyzes and chromatography-mass spectrometry to determine the organic components of the ceramic painting of the Tripolye and Lublin-Volhynian cultures.

ucuteni-Vădastra Type Dagger from Site 26 at Strzyżów (S-E Poland) Attests to the Intercultural Landscape of the Eneolithic Eastern Carpathians

“…On the other hand, the end of the 5 th and beginning of the 4 th millennium Bc saw the intensification of cultural contacts on the border between the ctcc and L-Vc, particularly in the interfluve of the Styr and horyn. At the same time, the first ctcc groups of the BII/cI phase reached the outcrops of Volhynian flint -at the settlement of Bodaki dated to BII/cI phase ceramic imports and imitations of L-Vc pottery were found (Starkova 2009;Starkova and zakościelna 2018). the cultural landscape of these lands was highly prone to cultural hybridisation and integration (Kadrow and zakościelna 2022, 192), which is well reflected in the cremation cemetery at Ostrog-zeman that yielded graves containing both trypillian and L-Vc vessels (Pozìhov´skij and Samolûk 2008, fig.…”

Kamenets-Podolskiy (Tatarysky) in the Middle Tripolye flint networks of Forest-Steppe Ukraine

“…A few other sherds representative of Malice influences are known from surface collections at the site (Levinzon 2018;. In this context, we must mention that also the ceramic assemblage of Bodaky displays strong influences from the Malice culture (Skakun and Starkova 2003;Tkachuk 2008) fitting a broader context of mutual influences between Malice, Lublin-Volhynian and Trypillia pottery styles (e.g., Kadrow 2013;Starkova and Zakościelna 2018;Zakościelna 2010). Taking into account these influences, we assume the import of Turonian age flint from Southern Volhynia to Kamianets-Podilskiy (Tatarysky).…”

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.…”