41-42/I – Archeology - Muzeul Naţional de Istorie a Transilvaniei

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Gheorghe GâŃă, Alexandru Dragoman
Wares No. of Thickness Porosity Porosity Index Diameter (mm)
sherds Average V.C. Average V.C. Average V.C. Average V.C.
%
%
%
%
Pottery
decorated with
oblique
channellings
49 6.5 25.3 10.7 21.3 1.72 28.8 148 28.3
Plain
burnished
pottery
107 6.83 34.4 10.3 25.6 1.63 36.1 132 44.6
Pottery
decorated with
vertical
channellings
70 6.95 23.8 10.2 20.9 1.54 29.3 153 34.7
Pottery
decorated with
circular
channellings
23 7.09 19.1 9 22.1 1.32 20 141 27
Surfaceroughened
pottery
decorated with
spiral incisions
100 8.5 20.6 9.7 19.9 1.18 24.6 212 26.5
IN/EX pottery 59 8.66 26.4 10.4 19.6 1.27 29.8 205 46.5
‘Vinča style’
pottery
Surfaceroughened
pottery
Excised
pottery
Bases: IN/EX
pottery
Bases:
excised
pottery
Bases: plain
burnished and
channelled
pottery
75 8.66 21.9 10.9 21.3 1.34 34.2 217 42.2
120 9.38 21.7 10.6 24.6 1.16 27.1 208 37.2
237 9.78 25.8 10.3 17.1 1.13 32.1 258 41
9 11.1 23.2 9.94 13.1 0.93 23.8 84 50.3
30 11.3 29.8 10.4 13.3 0.99 32.7 97 47.6
26 12.2 22.8 11.1 18.9 0.96 27.5 72 35.4
Table 1. Wall-thickness, porosity index and diameters of the sherds
(V.C. = variation coefficient of the average).
The bottom is always thicker, while the porosity index and diameter of the bottom
are smaller than the properties of the rest of the pot. It results that in the settlement of
Vădastra conical and biconical pots prevail, having thicker bottoms than the rest of the
pots and a smaller vegetal mass addition. The variation coefficients of the average
thickness ranges between 19.1 and 34.4, having a rather constant thickness of the walls
of the pots over the whole existence of the Neolithic settlement.