A new look at old material: ceramic petrography and Neo\Eneolithic pottery traditions in the eastern Ljubljansko barje, Slovenia

In this article, a new look at old material, pottery, is presented, as the technology and operational sequences of pottery from the Neolithic and Eneolithic in Slovenia is mostly understudied. Here, the focus is on 5th and 4th millennia BC artefacts from the eastern part of Ljubljansko barje and sites, such as Resnikov prekop, Maharski prekop and Breg near πkofljica. The pottery was studied with a hand lens and petrographically, using an optical polarising microscope. The results were then compared to analyses of locally gathered clays and sediments. Pottery traditions at Resnikov prekop and Breg were different from those at Maharski prekop, although the vessels from all three sites were produced locally and mostly made from local material, but with different recipes or fabrics. The selection of raw material, the shaping and decorating of pots, their firing and use were probably more related to different traditions and individual choices of potters at these sites than to purely technological choices.V članku predstavljam nov pogled na star material, lončenino, saj se tehnologiji in operacijskim sekvencam pri izdelavi lončenine iz obdobja neolitika in eneolitika v Sloveniji posveča le majhna pozornost. Pričujoča analiza je osredotočena na artefakte 5. in 4. tisočletja BC. Iz vzhodnega dela Ljubljanskega barja, ki so bili izkopani na najdiščih Resnikov prekop, Maharski prekop in Breg pri Škofljici. Lončenino smo preiskali na makroskopskem nivoju in s petrografsko metodo opazovanja pod optičnim polarizacijskim mikroskopom. Rezultate smo primerjali z analizami lokalnih glin in sedimentov. Lončarske tradicije se na najdiščih Resnikov prekop in Breg razlikujejo od tradicij na Maharskem prekopu po svojih lončarskih masah in receptih, kljub temu da so bile posode izdelane iz lokalnih materialov. Izbor naravnih materialov, oblikovanje in okraševanje posod, žganje in uporaba so verjetno povezani z različnimi tradicijami in individualnimi odločitvami lončarjev na teh najdiščih in ne prestavljajo izključno le tehnološke rešitve