Стили нарвской керамики в Восточной Литве

The article analyzes and evaluates the complexes of Narva culture in the Eastern Lithuania. The new category, which has not been previously applied in studies of Narva culture is introduced, i. e. the style of ceramics, expressing a repeated set of technological, morphological and ornamentation traits of ceramic pottery. It is stated that in the early Neolith the early, Zvidze and the classic styles of ceramics developed independently. Complexes with the ceramics of the early style are distinguished in the stratified moor settlements. There are not much findings of ceramics. There is the opinion that the communities, which produced ceramics of the said style equipped seasonal Summer campsites in lowlands for fishing, in which there remained a relatively small amount of waste. On the other hand, the ceramics complexes of the Zvidzė style were plentiful. In the sandy settlements complexes of classic ceramics style of the early Neolith were found. The communities, which made the said ceramics were still stuck in the seasonal lifestyle of forest hunters. The classic ceramics style, though changed to a certain extent also remains in the middle Neolith. The plentiful complexes evidence the domination of the durable fishermen’s settlements by large bodies of water. The classic style transformed into the textile style in the later Neolith. The innovation of the period is the peculiar late Neolithic flint articles: knives, retouched arrowheads, etc.. The neighbouring communities, engaged in farming and cattle-breeding had influence on the formation of the late ceramics style, which inherited certain characteristic traits of the textile style, in the second half of the late Neolith