Accession No
1929.315 A
Description
One hundred sherds of Cucuteni A-type pottery. All are body sherds. They feature geometric decoration consisting of curved and straight parallel lines and additional curvilinear motifs painted in black, white, and some red. Various fabrics including orange and some with warm-buff surfaces and a grey core.
Place
Europe; Eastern Europe; Ukraine; Ivano-Frankovsk; Nezvis’ko [Niezwiska]
Period
Late Neolithic Chalcolithic Cucuteni-Tripolye
Source
Hutchinson, Richard W. [excavator]; Preston, Jocelyn P. [excavator]; Kozłowski, Leon [excavator]
Department
Arch
Reference Numbers
1929.315 A
Cultural Affliation
Material
Ceramic; Pottery
Local Term
Measurements
Events
Description (Physical description)
Cucuteni A pottery.
Event Date
Author: maa
Context (Related Documents)
Handwritten note with sherds reads: 'Niezwiska, Upper Dniester site, Cucuteni A Wares, Trench III'.
Event Date
Author: Sophie Wardle
Context (Related Documents)
Handwritten notes with sherds read: 'Niezwiska, Poland. Upper Dniester, Third Trench. Cucuteni A pottery (3000-2500 BC) under/by Czechy-Wysocko house/houses.'
Event Date
Author: Sophie Wardle
Context (Related Documents)
Handwritten note with sherds reads: 'U.D. III, 2 vases from under square CW house'. It is unclear to which sherds this note refers. It may refer to any sherds in the original 1929.315 IDNO prior to the splitting of the record into suffixes.
Event Date
Author: Sophie Wardle
Context (Field collection)
Found: Trench 3, Upper Dniester. From third Czechy Wysocko house. Joint excavation by Richard W. Hutchinson, Jocelyn Preston for the Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology and Leon Kozłowski for the University of Lviv [Lwów] in 1926. See archive (LL1/7/1) for correspondence, notes, etc.
Event Date 1926
Author: maa
Context (References)
Hutchinson, R.W. and Preston, J.P. (1930). ‘Excavations at Niezwiska, Poland’. Liverpool Annals of Archaeology and Anthropology, vol. 17. pp. 19–26.
Event Date 1930
Author: Sophie Wardle
Description (Physical description)
One hundred sherds of Cucuteni A-type pottery. All are body sherds. They feature geometric decoration consisting of curved and straight parallel lines and additional curvilinear motifs painted in black, white, and some red. Various fabrics including orange and some with warm-buff surfaces and a grey core.
Event Date 2/4/2024
Author: Sophie Wardle
FM:49248
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