Yuri B. Tsetlin¹,*, Natalya Yu. Petrova²,**

¹Institute of Archaeology RAS, Moscow, Russia
²The State Historical Museum, Moscow, Russia
*E-mail: yu.tsetlin@mail.ru
**E-mail: petrovanatalya7@mail.ru 

Keywords: chronology, periodization, the Neolithic, the Mesolithic, the North Caucasus, stone tools, trapeze, pressure.

The article presents in details the data recently obtained by the authors as a result of specified technological study of ancient Middle Eastern pottery (Proto-Hassuna period and the Hassuna culture (the archaic stage)) and the earliest pottery of the Russian Far East (the Osipovka, Gromatukha, Novopetrovka and Mariinskoe cultures). In total, fragments of approximately 823 vessels were studied. The authors reconstructed earliest ancient traditions inherent in all stages of pottery technology, shapes of the vessels, their decoration and use in everyday life. Finally, the comparative analysis of the earliest Near Eastern and Far Eastern pottery traditions was conducted. The paper summarizes similarities and peculiarities of the pottery emergence in these two regions.

DOI: 10.31857/S086960630008252-6