Pottery making in the South Aral region (concerning the question of the organization of handicrafts in antiquity)

This paper is devoted to the organizational forms of the pottery-making handicraft in the territory of the South Aral region. Three types of pottery-making have been distinguished which differed in terms of the production volumes and locations of the workshops relative the settlement sites. On the basis of analysis of the available evidence, the author comes to the conclusion that each of the distinguished types of production corresponds to a definite form of organization of the handicrafts.