Olga A. Lopatina^1,*, Nikolay A. Krenke^2,3,4,**, and Arkady B. Savinetsky^5,***

¹Institute of Archaeology RAS, Moscow, Russia
²State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia
³Institute for the History of Material Culture, St. Petersburg, Russia
⁴Institute of Geography RAS, Moscow, Russia
⁵A.N. Severtsov Institute of Ecology and Evolution RAS, Moscow, Russia

*E-mail: lopatina.olga@gmail.com
**E-mail: nkrenke@mail.ru
***E-mail: arkadybs@rambler.ru

Keywords: Upper Dnieper culture, Neolithic pottery, artificial and natural ornamentation tools, technical and technological analysis.

This article presents a technical and technological analysis of an assemblage of Neolithic pottery from the Proslishche 1 site excavated in 2025. The research objective was to describe and systematize the basic elements of the ornamentation and identify two types of ornamentation tools – artificial and natural ones. The authors analyzed over 20 different types of impressions, conducted experimental modeling and made comparisons with impressions obtained from a reference collection of animal bones. It was established that both types of ornamentation tools were used, their quantitatively predominant forms were identified. The authors set the tasks for further research into the ornamentation traditions of Neolithic pottery in the Upper Dnieper region and neighbouring territories.

DOI: 10.7868/S3034577426010021