This text was found in A. A. Bobrinsky's personal archive which is preserved in the Institute of Archaeologyof the Russian Academy of Sciences. It was written in the late1970s – early1980s. It is a brief summary of the three thousand-year history of potter's wheel functions on the territory of the Upper and Middle Dnieper region and partly of the forest zone of Eastern Europe. Based on the methodology developed by the author it describes the level of economic development of pottery production

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... ottery production among bearers of the following cultures: the Dnieper-Dvina, the Milogrady, the Yukhnovo, the Brushed Pottery, the Dyakovo, the late Scythian, the Zarubintsy, the Chernyakhov as well as among the population from the old Russian to later period and up to ethnographic modern age.