У статті, грунтуючись ни розробленій методиці дослідження кераміки, автор намагається з'ясувати рівень розвитку гончарства слов'ян Середнього Подніпров'я у VIII — на початку IX cm. і встановити причини появи в цей період горщиків з прямими вінцями.
Development of the methods for studying ancient pottery based on the bisual-tracing approach has permitted creating a technoligical typology of the VoKyntsev-type pottery of the mid-Dnieper area. Identified technological types made it possible not only to determine the level of development and professional skill of local pjtters, but also to trace the ways of evolution of that type of production. One of these ways is production of earthenware pots with an erect halo of the so-called Volyntsev type in the given territory at the period of concern. Data of relative chronology also support conclusions on the local basis of production of that pottery. In this case it was for the first time that different stages of the study of potter’s operations on the way of professional mastering of a potter’s wheeel were chosen as chronological bench-marks. The further improvement of the methods for treating pottery will permit attaining certain results and will be a step forward In development of archaeological and historical source study.