Issue 4 (65)
| REGULARITIES OF THE MULTI-LINEAR EVOLUTION OF POTTERY | |||
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| Year | 2019 | Number | 4(65) |
| Pages | 6-16 | Type | scientific article |
| UDC | 903.024 | BBK | 63.4 |
| Authors | Tsetlin Yuri B. |
Topic | NORTHERN EURASIA: ARCHAEOLOGICAL DIMENSION |
| Summary | The article discusses the basic laws of evolution of different aspects of pottery production, which is considered as a specially organized functioning system that has a specific internal structure and is connected with the outside world in a certain fashion. The systemic nature of pottery is determined by the systematic nature of any purposeful human activity, which manifests itself in cultural traditions that are passed from generation to generation. The present analysis of the evolution patterns of pottery production is a generalization of A. A. Bobrinsky’s ideas of on this issue. The author considers modern data on the evolution of vessel forms, their decor, basic plastic raw materials, molding materials, vessel design technology, potter wheel functions, vessel roasting techniques and technical devices for roasting. The development of these aspects of pottery is manifested at three qualitatively different levels: macroevolution, mesoevolution and microevolution. The analyzed patterns of the pottery production evolution clearly demonstrate the fact that its development is a complex systemically organized process in the history of mankind. This does not contradict the many specific pottery traditions that different nations had in different eras. It was through the diversity of these traditions that the identified trends and patterns of development of this sphere of human culture paved their way. | ||
| Keywords | pottery as a system, evolution, vessel shape, vessel decor, pottery technology, evolution patterns, evolution mechanisms | ||
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