Paste Inlays in the Decoration of Early Iron Age Vessels from the Lower Don Region
Journal: Nanobiotechnology Reports
Year: 2024

This paper presents the studies of paste-inlay samples from decorative grooves on fragments of two vessels from the Early Iron Age burial mound Peschaniy IV (Remontnensky raion, Rostov oblast). Vessel 1 is similar in type to North Caucasian ceramics and vessel 2 is similar to the ceramics of the Crimean steppe. A comprehensive study included the following methods: scanning electron microscopy, energy-dispersive X‑ray microanalysis, X-ray diffraction analysis, infrared (IR) spectroscopy. The past