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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