Observaţii privitoare la tehnologia şi materiile prime utilizate la prepararea pastei ceramicii Cucuteni C
Remarks Concerning the Technology and Raw Materials Used to Prepare the Paste for Cucuteni C Pottery

Summary/Abstract: For more than 120 years of researches on Cucuteni culture, Romanian and foreign researchers have been repeatedly interested in Cucuteni C pottery. Defined as an intrusive species in the Cucuteni-Tripolie environment, the Cucuteni C pottery aroused discussions regarding the culture it belongs to, the ways of getting into and the relations between its bearers and the Cucuteni communities, without leading to a common conclusion. The study is intended to carry out an analysis of this category of pottery regarding the technology of the paste and the raw materials used for its preparation, especially those ones used as a temper. Besides the striated and corded decorations, the crushed shell found in the paste is one of the main characteristics of this type of pottery. Starting from the fact that in the composition of Cucuteni C pottery the crushed shell is always associated with sand, the author asserts the idea that the bioclastic sands were used as a temper due to their wide spreading area in the Sarmatian of the Moldavian Platform. The presence or absence of this temper in Cucuteni C pottery in some sites can be explained not only through the cultural development, as stated by most of the archaeologists, but also through the presence or absence of the raw material near the Cucuteni sites. Also, the correlations between the composition of the Cucuteni C paste and the possible sources of raw materials can offer information on the possible ways in which the bearers of this culture got into the Cucuteni-Tripolie area, also on the relations they had with the local Cucuteni communities.

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