Место издания:Georgian National Academy of Science Tbilisi
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Аннотация:Paleoenvironmental reconstructions are crucially important for understanding the migration
incentives of ancient civilizations. The steppe areas of Southern Russia show a correlation
between migration waves and certain paleoclimatic rhythms (Demkin, 1997). Old settlements
are among the important geoarcheological phenomena that allow the use of paleopedological
methods for paleolandscape reconstructions. Soils deeply buried under ancient constructions,
especially ramparts and mounds, maintain features that developed under climatic conditions
preceding burial, and in this way, they can be considered valuable paleoenvironmental
archives. Settlements and burial mounds of the Late Holocene are widespread in the foreststeppe,
steppe, and semi-desert areas of the East European Plain, and they are well
documented by archaeologists. There are numerous paleolandscape reconstructions based on
buried Holocene soils (Demkin, 1997; Khohlova et al., 2007, Khokhlova, 2012). Though
many time slices are not characterized, in some cases reconstructions are conflicting. It is
especially important to provide detailed reconstructions for critical points of landscape
evolution when short climatic cycles caused noticeable changes in environmental parameters
reflected in buried soils. It would then be possible to link such critical points of soil evolution
with the migration pattern of steppe tribes.