Mongolia’s Frozen Heritage: A Summary of the Archaeology of the Cultural Cryosphere ...
While pastoral cultures from Mongolia and the dry steppes of eastern Eurasia have had an outsized impact on Eurasian history, the region’s geomorphology, reliance on organic materials, and a nomadic culture that lacks long-lasting architecture on the landscape have conspired to limit our knowledge o...
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ftdatacite:10.48350/170637 2024-09-15T18:11:38+00:00 Mongolia’s Frozen Heritage: A Summary of the Archaeology of the Cultural Cryosphere ... Clark, Julia Bayarsaikhan, J. Ventresca Miller, Alicia Vanderwarf, Sandra Hart, Isaac Caspari, Gino Treal Taylor, William Timothy 2021 https://dx.doi.org/10.48350/170637 https://boris.unibe.ch/170637/ unknown Equinox Publishing https://dx.doi.org/10.1558/jga.19784 restricted access publisher holds copyright http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec 930 History of ancient world to ca. 499 Text ScholarlyArticle article-journal journal article 2021 ftdatacite https://doi.org/10.48350/17063710.1558/jga.19784 2024-09-02T10:17:31Z While pastoral cultures from Mongolia and the dry steppes of eastern Eurasia have had an outsized impact on Eurasian history, the region’s geomorphology, reliance on organic materials, and a nomadic culture that lacks long-lasting architecture on the landscape have conspired to limit our knowledge of important anthropological processes in the deep past. Frozen archaeological sites, including permafrost and finds from glaciers and ice patches, serve as a key exception to this rule, providing detailed snapshots into the ancient lifeways of Mongolia’s mountain zones. However, these sites pose unique challenges for archaeological conservation, and rapid climate warming, paired with other issues like looting, threatens to degrade them faster than they can be identified, studied, or preserved. Here we summarize the known frozen heritage of Mongolia and highlight a recent to-date unpublished case study on salvaging and studying frozen archaeological sites. ... Text Ice permafrost DataCite |
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While pastoral cultures from Mongolia and the dry steppes of eastern Eurasia have had an outsized impact on Eurasian history, the region’s geomorphology, reliance on organic materials, and a nomadic culture that lacks long-lasting architecture on the landscape have conspired to limit our knowledge of important anthropological processes in the deep past. Frozen archaeological sites, including permafrost and finds from glaciers and ice patches, serve as a key exception to this rule, providing detailed snapshots into the ancient lifeways of Mongolia’s mountain zones. However, these sites pose unique challenges for archaeological conservation, and rapid climate warming, paired with other issues like looting, threatens to degrade them faster than they can be identified, studied, or preserved. Here we summarize the known frozen heritage of Mongolia and highlight a recent to-date unpublished case study on salvaging and studying frozen archaeological sites. ... |
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