Elena V. Volkova

Institute of Archaeology RAS, Moscow, Russia

E-mail: volk_h@mail.ru

Keywords: archaeology, ethnography, experiment, pottery, techniques of clay vessels construction, patch making. 

The article focuses on clarifying the terms for the technology of “patch making”. The ambiguity in the use of some specific terms in the Russian archaeological literature prompted the author to attempt to systematize the terms that characterize this mode of pottery making. As a result, the following clarifications are proposed: 1) a patch as a construction element can be lumpy and coiled; 2) according to the methods of application, lumpy patch can be unsystematic, fan-shaped and ring-zonal, while coil patch making is most often spiral-shaped, ring-zonal or spiral-zonal one. The article provides a detailed substantiation of the author’s proposals. A stable connection between construction elements and the ways in which they are pressed up together often enables to do more rigorous and unambiguous definitions of the technique of archaeological ceramics making.

DOI: 10.31857/S086960632301021X, EDN: MCUAXX