Yu. B. Tsetlin. POTTERY KILN AT TELL HAZNA I AND ITS POSITION IN KILN EVOLUTION. THE CERAMICS FROM THE KILN (original) (raw)

A pottery kiln of the first half of the 3 rd millennium BC was discovered at Tell Hazna I in northeastern Syria. The kiln represents a fire-construction with updraft motion of hot gases and consists of a deep fuel-firing unit, a permanent horizontal heat-conducting-and-separating unit, and a pottery-firing unit. According to Alexander A. Bobrinsky this kiln belongs to a rather early period of the pottery kiln evolution. The study of morphological and technological peculiarities of the pottery from the kiln was undertaken. Some vessels were completely handmade, while the others were also handmade but with limited (or secondary) use of a primitive potter's wheel or an acentric working support for smoothing the upper parts of the vessels. It is clear that the professional skills of local potters in making vessels by hand were well established, but the skills in using a potter's wheel were just at the first stage of mastering.