RESULTS OF THERMOGRAVIMETRIC ANALYSIS OF CERAMICS FROM THE EARLY IRON AGE SETTLEMENTS OF THE MOGILEV DNIEPER REGION

The modern stage of archaeology development is connected with the interdisciplinary approach to the study of monuments and artifacts. The methods of natural sciences are still rarely applied in archaeological research due to the lack of close connections between archaeologists, physicists and chemists, as well as due to the difficulties in interpreting the results obtained during the study of archaeological material. The fundamental novelty of the article is that in Belarusian archaeology the method of thermogravimetric analysis of ancient ceramics has not been widely used in research before and the results of thermogravimetric analysis of ancient ceramics have not been published before. As a result of the study of the ceramic material of the early Iron Age, originating from the settlements of the Mogilev Dnieper region: Ageyevka, Radomlya, Dashkovka, Zmeyevka by the method of thermogravimetric analysis, a conclusion was made about the use of the same clay raw materials for molding masses, from which the ceramics from the settlements of Ageyevka, Radomlya, Dashkovka, which belong to the Zarubintsy archaeological culture, were made. And about the use of other raw materials for the production of ceramics from the Zmeevka settlement (Pelageevskoye settlement), which belongs to the Kolochin archaeological culture.