POTTERY COMPLEX
OF THE SECOND HALF 13th – FIRST HALF 15th CENTURIES
FROM EXCAVATIONS IN KAMIANETS-PODILSKYI

Pavlo NECHYTAYLO
Candidate of Historical Sciences (Ph.D in History), Senior Research Assistant,
the State Enterprise "Science Research Centre «Protective Archaeology Service of Ukraine»
of Institute of Archaeology of the NASU",
(Ukraine, Kamianets-Podilskyi), This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6849-2705

Olena ONOHDA
Candidate of Historical Sciences (Ph.D in History), Leading Research Fellow,
‘Mystetskyi Arsenal’ National Art and Culture Museum Complex
(Ukraine, Kyiv), This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5033-4178

DOI: https://doi.org/10.15407/ul2021.06.136

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Abstract

The paper analyses ceramics and buildings remains of the second half 13th – first half 15th centuries, coming from excavations in Kamianets-Podilskyi. It aims to introduce materials into scientific circulation, to compare the collection with synchronous objects from adjacent territories, to trace interactions in the material culture development in late medieval towns. Ceramics of the Golden Horde and the Grand Duchy of Lithuania times began to be systematically researched relatively recently in Ukraine. Thus, the materials from Kamianets-Podilskyi contribute to deepening our knowledge of less-known periods in the history of Ukraine and Eastern Europe.
Materials analyzed were obtained during rescue archaeological research on the Polish Market square in Kamianets. These were fragmented parts of underground and aboveground building structures, as well as a collection of various household items. Building materials were mostly local clays and loam, less often wood and stone were used. A set of clay ‘roll’ blocks set in one of the pits allows us to assume similarity with the Golden Horde building technologies. Finds of coins and Crimean polychrome bowls fragments also indicate the complex emerged during the Golden Horde period. However, certain groups of pottery and coins of European minting define the complex upper date within the first half 15th century.
Diverse ceramic types range from the complex is an interesting local typological phenomenon. It reflects mutual influences of the pottery traditions development both in time and space. After processing artefacts collection, the main groups of pottery were identified according to technological features. Some of them are rooted in the local ancient Rus’ traditions, others were formed under the influence of Western trends, while samples of a ‘specific’ group were common for almost the entire territory of modern Ukraine during Late Middle Ages. Pots collection was preliminary systematized up to 5 most common types selection, based on rim profiles. Many of them have a wide range of analogies, locally from Kamianets, as well as from the Western Ukraine, in Poland, Moldova and Romania. In addition to pots, the collection includes other types of kitchen and tableware, such as makitras, lids, jars and other single samples of ceramics. The typological diversity correlates with the multi-layered processes which took place in Kamianets-Podilskyi life during the Golden Horde and the Lithuanian periods. Materials from the complex, as well as other finds from synchronous objects within the city, deepen our understanding of the city’s development large-scale picture, which, however, requires further research.

Keywords

Kamianets-Podilskyi, building, ceramics, pot, rim profile, range of utensils, Golden Horde time, Lithuanian era, Second half 13th – First half 15th cent.

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