CERAMICS OF THE ANCIENT SETTLEMENT OF BIJAN-4

The appeal to the study of plate complexes of the Jewish Autonomous region is due to a number of circumstances. The main ones are: the small number of registered Neolithic settlements in the region, the lack of complete data on the middle Neolithic cultures of the region (which creates a kind of information vacuum between the cultures of the Middle and Lower Amur), the obscurity of connections and vectors of cultural influences of ancient communities, and others. The proposed article is devoted to a preliminary analysis of the ceramic material of the new complex of the Bijan-4 monument of the middle Neolithic period, the nature of the stone industry of which is focused on the preparation of subprismatic micronuclei, their splitting and obtaining knife-shaped blanks. The pottery of the settlement has bright individual features, on the one hand, which have no direct analogues in the famous monuments of archeology of the South of the Far East, and at the same time reveals cultural indicators that indicate a connection.