The artificial ornament-makers from the archaeological sites of the Neolithic and the Bronze age in the forest-steppe Don region

Ornament-makers are rare finds in the archaeological sites of the forest-steppe Don region. They could be divided into two large groups: natural and artificial ornament-makers. The last group includes two sub-groups: dies and sticks, which were made of different kinds of stone, bones, shells and clay. Now we know 32 ornament-makers of Neolithic and Bronze era from 8 archaeological sites of the forest-steppe Don region. All of the sites were situated at the flood-plain hills in the basin of Don and its stream tributaries. The part of them could be compared only with the Neolithic Pit-Comb ceramics, which were spread in the sites in the forest-steppe Don region in the IV millennium B.C.