Cercetări experimentale privind modalitatea de formare a amprentelor de materiale textile pe ceramica culturii Cucuteni

Abstract

With the occasion of the archeological researches carried out in time in the sites of the Cucuteni civilization, there were discovered numerous ceramic fragments preserving impressions of certain textile materials. These fragments were part of the sustaining base of vessels assigned to phases A and B of the culture. The paper presents the experimental researches undertaken in order to recreate the manner these impressions were created, pointing out aspects pertaining to the usage of textile materials in the process of shaping clay. Researches undertaken in collaboration with the ceramist plastic artist/potter, by the usage of the same type of tools and work methods, aim at obtaining a result similar to the one characterizing the prehistoric times. In this regard, in the process of shaping/ drying of the ceramic vessels, there were used, as supports, textile materials specific to the Cucuteni culture, with various structures and widths. Researches correlated the depth of the impressions created by the vessel dimensions with the characteristics of the textile materials used as intermediary support during the shaping / drying of the ceramic vessels.