There are two collections that stored in Saint Petersburg originating from the first LBK sites (Floreşti I andNiezwiska) investigated USSR during 1950-60s by Tatiana Passek and Katerina Chernysh. Despite incompleteness of this material, it allows us to make several observations regarding technical aspects pottery production its ornamentation. The vessels is based on a coiling with subsequent fo...

Three hundred and forty eight strains of penicillia were examined by a team of specialists at IMI using morphological, physiological and biochemical criteria. Chief amongst these were the assessment of conidial ornamentation using scanning electron microscopy, growth on specific carbon and nitrogen sources, screening for enzyme production and thin layer chromatography of secondary metabolites. ...