Archival analysis of slash-and-burn agriculture in the Northern Ural Mountains at the end of the nineteenth century
Abstract At the end of the nineteenth century, the northern territories of the Russian Plain and western piedmont of Northern Ural Mountains were under various land-use systems, including slash-and-burn (SAB) agriculture. Using archival materials for the years 1880–1910 as data sources, we analyse t...
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ftunivoulu:oai:oulu.fi:nbnfi-fe20230907120718 2023-10-09T21:55:06+02:00 Archival analysis of slash-and-burn agriculture in the Northern Ural Mountains at the end of the nineteenth century Aleinikov, A. (Alexei) Lisitsyna, O. (Olga) 2023 application/pdf http://urn.fi/urn:nbn:fi-fe20230907120718 eng eng Springer Nature info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/EC/H2020/756431/EU/Domestication in Action - Tracing Archaeological Markers of Human-Animal Interaction/DOMESTICATION info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess © The Author(s) 2023. This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article’s Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article’s Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Archival research Boreal forests Fires Land use Northern Ural Mountains Perm province Russia Slash-and-burn agriculture info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion 2023 ftunivoulu 2023-09-13T23:00:05Z Abstract At the end of the nineteenth century, the northern territories of the Russian Plain and western piedmont of Northern Ural Mountains were under various land-use systems, including slash-and-burn (SAB) agriculture. Using archival materials for the years 1880–1910 as data sources, we analyse the the location and extent of SAB agriculture, it timing, and its impact on the landscapes at the turn of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, and present a review of the historical and ethnographic literature. The study area is in the western piedmont of the Northern Ural Mountains, between the Kama and Pechora rivers in dark conifer dominated forests. The population is sparse (14 people per 100 km² in 1900) and settled along the rivers. In 1885 the practice of SAB agriculture was totally prohibited, but the unusually large crop harvest during the first years of the ban led people to risk breaking the law. Between the years 1885 and 1894 a total number of 175 SAB cases was recorded in the study area. The SAB sites were used only once before being abandoned. The recorded plots were usually cultivated by one family. They small (0.03 ha to 2.70 ha, with a median of 0.55 ha) and located within 7.5 km of the settlements. The practice SAB agriculture led to the formation of mosaics of multiple-aged pyrogenic forest associations near the settlements. Article in Journal/Newspaper Pechora ural mountains Jultika - University of Oulu repository Kama ENVELOPE(162.251,162.251,57.375,57.375) |
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Abstract At the end of the nineteenth century, the northern territories of the Russian Plain and western piedmont of Northern Ural Mountains were under various land-use systems, including slash-and-burn (SAB) agriculture. Using archival materials for the years 1880–1910 as data sources, we analyse the the location and extent of SAB agriculture, it timing, and its impact on the landscapes at the turn of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, and present a review of the historical and ethnographic literature. The study area is in the western piedmont of the Northern Ural Mountains, between the Kama and Pechora rivers in dark conifer dominated forests. The population is sparse (14 people per 100 km² in 1900) and settled along the rivers. In 1885 the practice of SAB agriculture was totally prohibited, but the unusually large crop harvest during the first years of the ban led people to risk breaking the law. Between the years 1885 and 1894 a total number of 175 SAB cases was recorded in the study area. The SAB sites were used only once before being abandoned. The recorded plots were usually cultivated by one family. They small (0.03 ha to 2.70 ha, with a median of 0.55 ha) and located within 7.5 km of the settlements. The practice SAB agriculture led to the formation of mosaics of multiple-aged pyrogenic forest associations near the settlements. |
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Archival analysis of slash-and-burn agriculture in the Northern Ural Mountains at the end of the nineteenth century |
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Archival analysis of slash-and-burn agriculture in the Northern Ural Mountains at the end of the nineteenth century |
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Archival analysis of slash-and-burn agriculture in the Northern Ural Mountains at the end of the nineteenth century |
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Archival analysis of slash-and-burn agriculture in the Northern Ural Mountains at the end of the nineteenth century |
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Archival analysis of slash-and-burn agriculture in the Northern Ural Mountains at the end of the nineteenth century |
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archival analysis of slash-and-burn agriculture in the northern ural mountains at the end of the nineteenth century |
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