FIR CONES, TEXTILE CERAMICS AND CLIMATE CHANGES

Abstract

The paper considers a hypothesis advanced by O.A. Lopatina, according to which one of the types of
textile imprints on the ceramics of the Dyakovo culture could have been applied by rolling the core of a fi r cone
over the surface of the vessel prior to fi ring. As noted by the author, Dyakovo settlements in the Middle Oka
and the lower reaches of the Moskva river, where fi r trees are rare, the distribution of ceramics with this type of
imprints started simultaneously with the beginning of the Sub-Atlantic period and ceased in the last centuries
B.C. Thus, its distribution coincides with the so-called cooling of the early Subatlanthicum (ESA). The author
concludes that there was a possible relationship between the distribution of this type of ceramics and the variations
in the distribution area of fi r trees, which shifted to the south during the cold Early Sub-Atlantic period.