An Archaeobotanical Study of the Bukhta Nakhodka Fort, the Yamal Peninsula (13th to Early 14th Century)

We present the findings from an archaeobotanical study of samples from the habitation layer of Bukhta Nakhodka, a 13th to early 14th century fort on the Yamal Peninsula, Western Siberia. On the basis of a detailed analysis of the taxonomic diversity of macro- and micro-remains of plants, the vegetat...

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Main Authors: E. G. Lapteva, O. M. Korona, T. V. Lobanova, O. V. Kardash
Other Authors: This study was carried out under state assignments of Surgut State University (Project No. 2023-227-18) and the Institute of Plant and Animal Ecology of the Ural Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences (Topic No. 122021000095-0).
Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
Language:English
Published: IAET SB RAS 2024
Subjects:
subarctic region of Western Siberia
pollen analysis
archaeology
pre-Nenets population
Arctic
nenets
Subarctic
Tundra
Yamal Peninsula
Siberia
Online Access:https://journal.archaeology.nsc.ru/jour/article/view/1843
https://doi.org/10.17746/1563-0110.2024.52.1.125-133
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pollen analysis
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E. G. Lapteva
O. M. Korona
T. V. Lobanova
O. V. Kardash
An Archaeobotanical Study of the Bukhta Nakhodka Fort, the Yamal Peninsula (13th to Early 14th Century)
topic_facet subarctic region of Western Siberia
pollen analysis
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pre-Nenets population
description We present the findings from an archaeobotanical study of samples from the habitation layer of Bukhta Nakhodka, a 13th to early 14th century fort on the Yamal Peninsula, Western Siberia. On the basis of a detailed analysis of the taxonomic diversity of macro- and micro-remains of plants, the vegetation around the site is reconstructed as grass, moss, and subshrub tundra. The abundance of pollen and vegetative plant parts in habitation deposits inside buildings support an earlier hypothesis that peat and turf briquettes, resulting from turf removal, were used for construction. The vegetation cover of tundra area within the site and immediately adjoining it had changed. Its integrity was disrupted during construction of the fort, after which ruderal tundra apophytes expanded rapidly, and the turf layer was partly recovered during the fort’s existence. A secondary grass cover, differing from that of the natural tundra communities, formed after the fort had been abandoned. A few remains of wild food plants were found, but none of cultivated plants. On the basis of archaeobotanical data, it is concluded that the pre-Nenets people used the plant resources of the Yamal subarctic tundra mostly for construction, domestic needs, and possibly as food.
author2 This study was carried out under state assignments of Surgut State University (Project No. 2023-227-18) and the Institute of Plant and Animal Ecology of the Ural Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences (Topic No. 122021000095-0).
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author E. G. Lapteva
O. M. Korona
T. V. Lobanova
O. V. Kardash
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O. M. Korona
T. V. Lobanova
O. V. Kardash
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title An Archaeobotanical Study of the Bukhta Nakhodka Fort, the Yamal Peninsula (13th to Early 14th Century)
title_short An Archaeobotanical Study of the Bukhta Nakhodka Fort, the Yamal Peninsula (13th to Early 14th Century)
title_full An Archaeobotanical Study of the Bukhta Nakhodka Fort, the Yamal Peninsula (13th to Early 14th Century)
title_fullStr An Archaeobotanical Study of the Bukhta Nakhodka Fort, the Yamal Peninsula (13th to Early 14th Century)
title_full_unstemmed An Archaeobotanical Study of the Bukhta Nakhodka Fort, the Yamal Peninsula (13th to Early 14th Century)
title_sort archaeobotanical study of the bukhta nakhodka fort, the yamal peninsula (13th to early 14th century)
publisher IAET SB RAS
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url https://journal.archaeology.nsc.ru/jour/article/view/1843
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op_source Archaeology, Ethnology & Anthropology of Eurasia; Vol 51, No 1 (2024); 125-133
Археология, этнография и антропология Евразии; Vol 51, No 1 (2024); 125-133
1563-0110
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spelling ftjarchaeology:oai:oai.nsc.elpub.ru:article/1843 2024-04-28T08:05:10+00:00 An Archaeobotanical Study of the Bukhta Nakhodka Fort, the Yamal Peninsula (13th to Early 14th Century) E. G. Lapteva O. M. Korona T. V. Lobanova O. V. Kardash This study was carried out under state assignments of Surgut State University (Project No. 2023-227-18) and the Institute of Plant and Animal Ecology of the Ural Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences (Topic No. 122021000095-0). 2024-04-04 application/pdf https://journal.archaeology.nsc.ru/jour/article/view/1843 https://doi.org/10.17746/1563-0110.2024.52.1.125-133 eng eng IAET SB RAS https://journal.archaeology.nsc.ru/jour/article/view/1843/972 Anderson D.G., Harrault L., Milek K.B., Forbes B.C., Kuoppamaa M., Plekhanov A.V. 2019 Animal domestication in the high Arctic: Hunting and holding reindeer on the Yamal peninsula, northwest Siberia. Journal of Anthropological Archaeology, vol. 55. URL: https:// doi.org/10.1016/j.jaa.2019.101079 Beug H.-J. 2004 Leitfaden der Pollenbestimmung für Mitteleuropa and angrenzende Gebiete. München: Verlag Friedrich Pfeil. Dobrokhotov V.N. 1961 Semena sornykh rasteniy. Moscow: Selkhozizdat. Dorogostaiskaya E.V. 1972 Sorniye rasteniya Kraynego Severa SSSR. Leningrad: Nauka. Govorukhin V.S. 1937 Flora Urala. Sverdlovsk: Sverdl. obl. izd. Grichuk V.P., Zaklinskaya E.D. 1948 Analiz iskopayemoy pyltsy i spor i yego primeneniye v paleogeografii. Moscow: Geografgiz. Grimm E. 2004 Tilia software 2.0.2. Springfield: Illinois State Museum Research and Collection Center. Hantemirov R.M. 1999 Tree-ring reconstruction of summer temperatures in the north of the West Siberia for the last 3248 years. Sibirskiy ekologicheskiy zhurnal, No. 2: 185–191. Istoricheskaya ekologiya naseleniya severa Zapadnoy Sibiri. 2013 G.P. Vizgalov, O.V. Kardash, P.A. Kosintsev, T.V. Lobanova. Nefteyugansk: Inst. arkheologii Severa, Yekaterinburg: AMB. Kardash O.V. 2011 Gorodok sikhirtya v Bukhte Nakhodka (perviye rezultaty issledovaniya). Nefteyugansk: Inst. arkheologii Severa, Yekaterinburg: AMB. Kardash O.V., Lips S.A., Sidorova M.O., Myglan V.S., Lobanova T.V. 2018 Nadymskiy gorodok: Noviye danniye o khronologii v russkom osvoyenii Severa Zapadnoy Sibiri v XIII–XIV vekakh. In Arkheologiya Severa Rossii: “Yugra – volost Novgoroda Velikogo v XI–XV vv.” (svod istochnikov i issledovaniy), pt. I. Surgut, Nefteyugansk, Yekaterinburg: Inst. arkheologii Severa, pp. 346–381. Kardash O.V., Lobanova T.V. 2008 Opyt rekonstruktsii khozyaistva naseleniya gorodishcha Bukhta Nakhodka XIV − XV vv. (po materialam arkheozoologicheskikh issledovaniy). In Trudy II (XVIII) Vserossiyskogo arkheologicheskogo syezda v Suzdale, vol. III. Moscow: IA RAN, pp. 360−363. Kats N.Y., Kats S.V., Kipiani M.G. 1965 Atlas i opredelitel plodov i semyan, vstrechayushchikhsya v chetvertichnykh otlozheniyakh SSSR. Moscow: Nauka. Korona O.M. 2010 Makroostatki rasteniy iz arkheologicheskikh pamyatnikov pozdnego golotsena v lesotundre Zapadnoy Sibiri. In Dinamika ekosistem v golotsene. Yekaterinburg, Chelyabinsk: Rifei, pp. 110–112. Korona O.M. 2013 Rezultaty karpologicheskogo analiza obraztsov kulturnogo sloya iz raskopok Poluyskogo mysovogo gorodka. In Poluyskiy mysovoy gorodok knyazey Tayshinykh. Yekaterinburg, Salekhard: Magellan, pp. 366−369. Korona O.M. 2015 Archaeobotanical finds from the Nadymsky Gorodok medieval settlement in the forest-tundra of Western Siberia, Russia. Vegetation History and Archaeobotany, vol. 24 (1): 187−196. Lapteva E.G., Ektova S.N., Trofimova S.S., Korona O.M. 2013 Analiz metodami sravnitelnoy floristiki retsentnykh rastitelnykh ostatkov yuzhnykh subarkticheckikh tundr poluostrova Yamal. In Bioraznoobraziye ekosistem Kraynego Severa: Inventarizatsiya, monitoring, okhrana. Syktyvkar: Inst. biologii Komi NC UrO RAN, pp. 81–92. Natsionalniy atlas Rossii. 2008 In 4 vols. 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In Arkheologiya severa Rossii: Ot epokhi zheleza do Rossiyskoy imperii: Materialy Vseros. nauch. arkheol. konf. (Surgut, 1–4 oktyabrya 2013 g.). Yekaterinburg, Surgut: Magellan, pp. 157–161. Poluostrov Yamal: Rastitelniy pokrov. 2006 M.A. Magomedova, L.M. Morozova, S.N. Ektova, O.V. Rebristaya, N.V. Chernyadyeva, A.D. Potemkin, M.S. Knyazev. Tyumen: Siti-press. Prokhorov V.P., Armenskaya N.L. 2001 Koprotrofniye peritetsioidniye askomitsety yevropeiskoy chasti Rossii. Byulleten Mosk. obshchestva ispytateley prirody. Otdeleniye biologii, vol. 106 (2): 78–82. Sekretareva N.A. 2004 Sosudistiye rasteniya Rossiyskoy Arktiki i sopredelnykh territoriy. Moscow: KMK. Shiyatov S.G., Hantemirov R.M. 2005 Klimat Polyarnogo Urala i Yamala v VII–XIV vv., rekonstruirovanniy pri pomoshchi drevesnykh kolets derevyev. In Zeleniy Yar: Arkheologicheskiy kompleks epokhi Srednevekovya v Severnom Priobye. Yekaterinburg, Salekhard: UroRAN, pp. 301–303. Sidorova M.O., Büntgen U., Omurova G.T., Kardash O.V. 2017 First dendro-archaeological evidence of a completely excavated medieval settlement in the extreme north of Western Siberia. Dendrochronologia, vol. 44: 146−152. Sidorova M.O., Omurova G.T., Kardash O.V., Myglan V.S. 2017 Dendrokhronologicheskoye datirovaniye poseleniya Bukhta Nakhodka (p-ov Yamal). In Trudy V (XXI) Vserossiyskogo arkheologicheskogo syezda v Barnaule – Belokurikhe, vol. III. Barnaul: Izd. Alt. Gos. Univ., pp. 75–78. Telyatnikov M.Y., Pristyazhnyuk S.A. 2002 Rastitelniy pokrov kak indikator izmeneniy klimata v subatlanticheskuyu fazu golotsena (na primere subarkticheskikh tundr poluostrova Yamal). Sibirskiy ekologicheskiy zhurnal, No. 4: 461−472. Vasilchuk A.K. 2007 Palinologiya i khronologiya poligonalno-zhilnykh kompleksov v kriolitozone Rossii. Moscow: Izd. Mosk. Gos. Univ. Vizgalov G.P., Kardash O.V., Konovalenko M.V. 2018 Tazovskaya masterskaya: Proizvodstvenno-zhiloy kompleks XIII–XIV vv. v nizovye reki Taz. In Arkheologiya Severa Rossii: “Yugra – volost Novgoroda Velikogo v XI–XV vv.” (svod istochnikov i issledovaniy), pt. I. Surgut, Nefteyugansk, Yekaterinburg: Inst. arkheologii Severa, pp. 437–460. Volkova V.S., Bakhareva V.A., Levina T.P. 1989 Rastitelnost i klimat golotsena Zapadnoy Sibiri. In Paleoklimaty pozdnelednikovya i golotsena. Moscow: Nauka, pp. 90–96. Zhilich S.V., Garkusha Y.N., Rudaya N.A., Novikov A.V. 2016 Gorodishche Ust-Voykarskoye (Nizhneye Priobye): Perviye rezultaty palinologicheskogo issledovaniya. In Problemy arkheologii, etnografii, antropologii Sibiri i sopredelnykh territoriy, vol. XXII. Novosibirsk: Izd. IAET SO RAN, pp. 283–287. https://journal.archaeology.nsc.ru/jour/article/view/1843 doi:10.17746/1563-0110.2024.52.1.125-133 Authors who publish with this journal agree to the following terms:Authors retain copyright and grant the journal right of first publication with the work simultaneously licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution License that allows others to share the work with an acknowledgement of the work's authorship and initial publication in this journal.Authors are able to enter into separate, additional contractual arrangements for the non-exclusive distribution of the journal's published version of the work (e.g., post it to an institutional repository or publish it in a book), with an acknowledgement of its initial publication in this journal.Authors are permitted and encouraged to post their work online (e.g., in institutional repositories or on their website) prior to and during the submission process, as it can lead to productive exchanges, as well as earlier and greater citation of published work (See The Effect of Open Access). Archaeology, Ethnology & Anthropology of Eurasia; Vol 51, No 1 (2024); 125-133 Археология, этнография и антропология Евразии; Vol 51, No 1 (2024); 125-133 1563-0110 subarctic region of Western Siberia pollen analysis archaeology pre-Nenets population info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion 2024 ftjarchaeology https://doi.org/10.17746/1563-0110.2024.52.1.125-13310.1016/j.jaa.2019.101079 2024-04-05T01:03:03Z We present the findings from an archaeobotanical study of samples from the habitation layer of Bukhta Nakhodka, a 13th to early 14th century fort on the Yamal Peninsula, Western Siberia. On the basis of a detailed analysis of the taxonomic diversity of macro- and micro-remains of plants, the vegetation around the site is reconstructed as grass, moss, and subshrub tundra. The abundance of pollen and vegetative plant parts in habitation deposits inside buildings support an earlier hypothesis that peat and turf briquettes, resulting from turf removal, were used for construction. The vegetation cover of tundra area within the site and immediately adjoining it had changed. Its integrity was disrupted during construction of the fort, after which ruderal tundra apophytes expanded rapidly, and the turf layer was partly recovered during the fort’s existence. A secondary grass cover, differing from that of the natural tundra communities, formed after the fort had been abandoned. A few remains of wild food plants were found, but none of cultivated plants. On the basis of archaeobotanical data, it is concluded that the pre-Nenets people used the plant resources of the Yamal subarctic tundra mostly for construction, domestic needs, and possibly as food. 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