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- Title
YAHORLYK WORKSHOP, CORE-FORMED VESSELS, AND THE "NATRON GLASS REVOLUTION" IN THE NORTH PONTIC REGION.
- Authors
Kolesnychenko, Anzhelika M.
- Abstract
The archaic Greek settlement of Yahorlyk, in southern Ukraine, has yielded abundant evidence for glass-working. This paper reports the results of de novo chemical analyses of glass beads from the site excavated in the 1980s in the context of state-of-art concepts of Early Iron Age glass production in Europe. Yahorlyk craftsmen employed two main types of glass: natron-based glass for biconical beads, plant-ash glass and glass with low magnesium and high potassium content for eye-beads. In some cases the component parts of a single bead were made from glass of different chemical types. Yahorlyk beads were widespread in ancient Greek and barbarian contexts. By comparing this distribution pattern with that for clearly imported products (core-formed vessels), the author concludes that originality of Yahorlyk glass-working may result from its orientation towards two markets: those of Archaic Greece and Early Scythia.
- Subjects
UKRAINE; GLASS beads; GLASS recycling; GLASS; GLASS analysis; IRON Age; ANALYTICAL chemistry; CONTENT mining
- Publication
Acta Archaeologica Lodziensia, 2018, Issue 64, p45
- ISSN
0065-0986
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.26485/AAL/2018/64/4