Introduction The study of ceramic complexes of ancient settlements is one of the most interesting areas of archaeological research, which allows not only to obtain and characterize reference sets of various types of ceramics, but also to solve issues of chronology, periodization, cultural and economic contacts, the origin and historical destinies of the population that left certain archaeological sites. Working with this type of source has its own difficulties and requires a lot of time, since the settlement ware is numerous, highly fragmented and dispersed in the cultural layer. This seems to explain the current situation in the study of Sargat ceramics, where the main attention was paid to dishes from burial complexes. The number of works specifically devoted to the analysis of Sargat settlement collections is small. The first attempts were made in the 60s-70s of the XX century, when V. E. Stoyanov and V. A. Mogilnikov considered the correlation between the Rozanov and Rechkin types of ceramics (Stoyanov, 1970; Mogilnikov, 1970). For the first time, Sargat ceramics were analyzed by L. N. Koryakova, whose works not only present the results of studying collections of specific settlements, such as Inberen IV, Ipkul XV, Duvan II [Koryakova and Stefanov, 1981; Koryakova, Morozov, and Sukhanova, 1988; Koryakova and Sergeev, 1993], but also a comparative analysis of ceramics from monuments of different areas of the Sargat area is made [Koryakova, 1988, pp. 105-113], and also questions of the methodology of its study are considered [Koryakova, 1983]. Later, N. P. Matveeva analyzed the shapes and ornamentation of dishes from Sargat monuments of the Middle Partobol region (1993, p. 90-100). Considerable attention is paid to the complexes of Sargat ceramics and their correlation with other ceramic types in the works of St. John the Baptist. Sharapova, 2000, 2004; Sharapova et al., devoted to the study of pottery traditions and ornamental styles of the Trans-Urals population ... Read more