Kleschenko A.A.

Key words: ceramic assemblage, burials, Trans-Kuban variant, Northern Caucasus culture.
The article gives a typological analysis of the pottery assemblage from Northern Caucasus culture burials, Middle Bronze Age. The study is based on the previously unpublished materials from the Trans-Kuban region. The series of ceramic vessels comprises two main types which are divided into four subtypes. The rare forms which are outside the main classification are considered separately. The circle of analogies and the frequency of occurrence of the types and subtypes of ceramics in combination with other categories of grave goods indicate the chronological priority of type II vessels as compared with type I vessels. The originality of the ceramics from the Northern Caucasus culture in the Trans-Kuban region allows interpreting it as a vivid individual component of the material culture of the population of the Northwestern Caucasus in the first half of the 3d millennium BC.