CERAMIC FIGURINE FROM AN ASSEMBLAGE WITH COMB-PIT WARE FOUND AT MERGEN-6.

The article presents a study which focuses on a variety of clay figurines that were chronologically and geographically distributed. It analyzes the Mergen figurine and the ceramic assemblage at the Mergen-6 multilayered settlement located on a promontory formed by Lake Mergen and the Mergenka River in Siberia, Russia. It cites that the parallels to the Mergen figurine are widely scattered within the forest and forest-steppe zone of Scandinavia and Middle Ob and temporally diverse from the early bronze age until the early iron age. It emphasizes that the first embryo-shaped figurine was created by people associated with comb-pit cultures no later than the 3rd millennium BC in the Ishim-Irtysh region.