Olga A. Lopatina
Institute of Archaeology RAS, Moscow (lopatina.olga@gmail.com)

Keywords: historiography, textile pottery, morphology, technology.

This paper summarizes the study of the so‑called textile imprints on pottery of the Dyakovo and Goro­dets Cultures. The investigations of the Bronze Age textile pottery of Eastern Europe and Western Si­beria are also touched upon selectively. Three directions of the study are distinguished, i.e. the estab­lishment of morphological traits of the imprints and their systematization; the reconstruction of ways of making imprints; textile imprints as a source of the reconstruction of early plaiting and weaving. Tex­tile pottery is examined as a potential source of the reconstruction of early historical‑cultural processes.