POTTERY KILNS OF ANCIENT RUS VYSHGOROD AND THEIR EVOLUTION

Authors

  • Дмитро Бібіков Institute of Archaeology of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine
  • Андрій Оленич Institute of Archaeology of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine

Abstract

The article summarizes the archaeological research of the pottery kilns in ancient Vyshgorod. It was the biggest medieval pottery center in Eastern Europe in that time. More than twenty kilns were studied over the last 80 years. Around the same amount of kilns were discovered visually but never excavated from the ground. This significant amount of complexes belonged to different periods gave us the possibility to make certain generalizations about the pottery in Kyivan Rus’ and their evolution. Analyzing the ceramic materials from filling plants attentively, permitted to divide them into five consecutive chronological stages, to demonstrate their dimensions and design features changes.

Keywords: Ancient Rus, Vyshgorod, pottery, kilns, ceramic material, evolution

Author Biographies

Дмитро Бібіков, Institute of Archaeology of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine

Junior researcher in Institute of Archaeology of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine (Kyiv, Ukraine)

Андрій Оленич, Institute of Archaeology of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine

Junior researcher in Institute of Archaeology of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine (Kyiv, Ukraine)

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Published

2017-09-15

How to Cite

Бібіков, Д., & Оленич, А. (2017). POTTERY KILNS OF ANCIENT RUS VYSHGOROD AND THEIR EVOLUTION. Scientific Bulletin of the National Museum of Ukrainian History, (2), 304-328. Retrieved from https://visnyk.nmiu.org/index.php/nv/article/view/154

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No. 2 (2017): Scientific Bulletin of the National museum of the history of Ukraine

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