A New Neolithic Ceramic Tradition in the Kama Region*

A microscopic, traceological, and experimental analysis of 357 samples of ceramics from 27 Neolithic (5th– 4th millennia BC uncalibrated) sites on the Upper, Middle, and Lower Kama was conducted using the methods proposed by A.A. Bobrinsky along with his physical modeling technique. The emergence of pottery production in the Volga–Kama region is discussed, and the specificity of the Kama tradition is described. Ceramic indicators of cultural admixture are introduced.