Archaeology, Ethnology & Anthropology of Eurasia 41 (4) 2013

Annotation:  Acheulean Large Flake Technology in Campo de Calatrava (Ciudad Real, Spain) Alternative Interpretations of the Middle/Upper Paleolithic Interface at Vindija Cave (Northwestern Early Upper Paleolithic Stone Tool Technologies of Northern Mongolia: The Case of Tolbor-4 and Tolb On the Supposedly Young Age of Angara Alluvial Sediments Based on the Findings of Salvage Excavatio The Early Neolithic of the Kama Region On the Function of “Grooved Stones” Middle Neolithic Ceramics from the Tytkesken VI Settlement Site A New Neolithic Ceramic Tradition in the Kama Region Early and Middle Bronze Age Burials at Ordynskoye-1, Western Siberia: A New Cultural Interpretation The Suzukteh Mound 22, Mongolia: The Burial Rite Prestigious Afanasyevo Wooden Metal-Bound Ware from the Sayan-Altai Without a Face: A Silver Plaque from the Eastern Slopes of the Urals New Elements in the Iconography of 9th–10th Century Ural-Siberian Silver A 13th–14th Century AD “Horse Skin Burial” at Basandaika Kurgan 1, Western Siberia Age-Related Skeletal Changes in Adult Populations Under Various Social and Geographical Conditions:   

Middle Neolithic Ceramics from the Tytkesken VI Settlement Site

K.Yu. Kiryushin, Yu.F. Kiryushin, and V.P. Semibratov.

The Tytkesken VI settlement is one of the key sites of the Neolithic, Chalcolithic, and Bronze Age in Gorny Altai. In 2006, over 1500 sq. m of the site area were excavated and as a result, abundant ceramic and lithic artifacts of the Middle and Late Neolithic were found. The Middle Neolithic ceramics from Tytkesken VI parallel with synchronous and later vessels from Tytkesken II as well as those from the Afanasyevo burials at Kuyum and Ulagan, Gorny Altai. The Middle Neolithic ceramics from Tytkesken II and VI are dissimilar to those from synchronous sites in Western Siberia while paralleling the Neolithic Atbasar pottery from Kazakhstan and the Kelteminar pottery from Western Central Asia. The ceramics from Tytkesken VI horizon 3A suggests that the Middle Neolithic tradition of that area originated from the local Early Neolithic tradition with some infl uence from Western Central Asia or eastern Kazakhstan.

Keywords: Altai, Neolithic, ceramics, decoration, temper, paste, ethno-cultural processes.