Big Boldyrevo Kurgan of the Early Bronze Age in the Southern Urals: Kurgan Structures, Paleosols, and Paleoclimate Reconstructionстатья
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Аннотация:The chronosequence of paleosols buried under structures of different ages in kurgan 1 of theBoldyrevo IV burial site in Orenburg oblast of Russia has been studied. The kurgan was built by representativesof the early (Repino) stage of the Yamnaya culture (about 5500 years ago) and included four successivelymade structures. According to archaeological data, the kurgan was built during decades, and 300-year-longinterval was determined by radiocarbon dating. During that period, the morphological and physicochemicalproperties of buried soils changed: the lower boundary of the humus horizon became more tonguing; thedegree of zooturbation of the profiles by burrowing animals increased; the organic carbon content dropped;and the contents of carbonate carbon, gypsum, and exchangeable sodium in the composition of exchangeablebases and magnetic susceptibility increased. The trend of changes in morphological properties, in the contentof organic carbon and carbonates, and in magnetic susceptibility in the materials from the early to late kurganstructures correlated with that for the soils buried under them. Our study enables us to suggest that the climateduring the analyzed period (the early stage of the Yamnaya culture) was more arid than the modern climate.The technological approaches used by the ancient builders for kurgan construction were revealed on the basis