Maikop pottery in archaeological context – collecting basic data

拟议研究的主题是Maikop“文化”，这是一种出现并存在于公元前4000年的现象。3950-3100 BC）之间的黑海在西部到车臣在东部，从库马和Manych河在北部到大高加索山脉的北方斜坡在南部。这种现象的出现和存在是由关于移徙、文化模仿和参与交换网络/“传播网络”的理论解释的，仅仅是工匠的移徙。 对这一现象的发现和埋葬，主要集中在金属物体或非常特殊的特征上，忽视了主要的研究对象和信息来源。学者们一直在处理Maikop现象没有分析其基本组成部分。Maikop定居点仍然在kkalanans和着名的发现的阴影下，大多数研究的特点是循环推理，由于对物质文化和背景的理解不足而加剧。 在讨论接触、影响、迁移和社会分层之前，应先介绍迈科普定居点居民的物质文化。这样的讨论不能建立在零碎的研究定居点和几十个出版的kkalanans。关于移民、长途贸易和酋长的理论并不能充分描述Maikop现象，也不能解释Maikop意味着什么。系统的、高分辨率的发掘，沿着对Maikop定居点物质文化各个方面的环境和技术研究，对于进一步讨论这一时期是必要的。拟议的项目旨在通过陶器组合的类型技术定义来解决这一差距，基于高分辨率的挖掘，上下文分析，以及对这一现象的关键站点的全面出版。对库班山谷谢列金斯科进行高分辨率、控制良好的研究和发掘，是走出理论恶性循环的必要步骤，建立在对物质文化的模糊理解之上。在对物质文化的各个方面进行仔细研究的基础上，对迈科普物质文化在其定居环境中的“厚”描述，将有助于确定迈科普人的基本行为特征，并开始讲述这一现象的故事。

The subject of the proposed research is Maikop “culture”, a phenomenon that emerged and existed in the 4th millennium BC (ca. 3950-3100 BC) between the Black Sea in the west to Chechnya in the east, from the Kuma and Manych Rivers in the north into the northern slopes of the Great Caucasian Mountains in the south. The appearance and existence of the phenomenon is explained by theories about migration, cultural emulation and participation in exchange networks/”networks of transmission”, to mere migration of artisans. Focusing on the metal objects or very special feature, prestigious finds and burials of the phenomenon neglected the main subjects and information sources. Scholars have been dealt with the Maikop phenomenon without analyzing its basic components.Maikop settlements remained in the shadow of kurgans and prestigious finds and most studies are characterized by a circular reasoning, exacerbated by a poor understanding of material culture and contexts. The material culture of the inhabitants of the Maikop settlements should be described before the discussion about contacts, influences, migrations and social stratification. Such discussions can not be based on fragmentary studied settlements and dozens of published kurgans. Theories on migration, long-distance trade and chiefs does not supply a sufficient description of the Maikop phenomenon, nor does it explain what does it mean to be Maikop.Systematic, high-resolution excavations, along with environmental and technological studies of various aspects of Maikop settlement material-culture are necessary for further discussion of the period. The proposed project is intended to address this gap through typo-technological definition of the pottery assemblage, based on high-resolution excavation, contextual analysis, and full publication of a key-site of the phenomenon. High-resolution, well-controlled research and excavations of Sereginskoe in the Kuban Valley form a procedure necessary to get out of the vicious circle of theories, built on a vague understanding of the material culture. A “thick” description of the Maikop material culture in its settlement context, based on close examination of various aspects of the material culture, will allow to identify basic behavioral traits of the Maikop people and to start telling the story of the phenomenon.