Work

The main purpose of the project is to study the raw material base as a factor in the ceramic production in the ancient centres of the North-Western Black Sea region. The project include processing data on the history of the study of local ceramic production in Olbia and Berezan for all periods of archaeological study of sites; study of potential locations of raw materials for pottery near Olbia and Berezan and sampling; interpretation of the results of paleogeographic laboratory research (mineralogical and paleopedological) of clay deposits in the context of the study of ancient pottery of Olbia and Berezan; study of the mineral and micromorphological composition of pottery samples from the excavations of Olbia and Berezan for comparison with deposits of potential local pottery; creation of a database of physicochemical and micromorphological properties of pottery clays and ceramic material.