Abstract
The article is devoted to the publication of the ceramic complex from the excavations of the Talitsa-transition emergency settlement. The monument is located on the right bank of the Katun river near the village. Berezovka Krasnogorskiy district of Altai Krai. Materials of different time periods from the Stone Age to the Middle Ages were recorded during the study of the site. The most indicative and extensive complex of artifacts belongs to the Bystryan culture of the early Iron Age. Among 3.5 thousand ceramic fragments, a group of vessels with stable and peculiar ornamentation stands out a pearl — ware with a divider in the form of double vertical impressions of smooth stamps of various shapes. In other known monuments of Bystrian culture such ornamentation is rare. This fact allowed the authors to distinguish the Talitsa type of ceramics, characteristic for the investigated settlement.