The History of Bonfire Firing Structures in Pottery Production (Ethnographic Data and Its Analysis)

In 1993 a special article was published by three authors (Bobrinsky, Volkova, Gay, 1993), devoted to the reconstruction of the history of the structural development of bonfires and some signs by which they can be identified based on archaeological materials.This topic is further developed in the present article.A number of narrow technological tasks related to the Fixative stage of the technological process in pottery and aimed at giving vessels hardness and water resistance will be considered in it on the basis of ethnographic data (Bobrinsky, 1978, p. 14; 1999, p. 11).These tasks include: 1) air drying of vessels; 2) their thermal drying, 3) the firing of the vessel itself and 4) its post-firing treatment.It is important to note that none of these narrow technological tasks is strictly SRYAHWA

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