Climate and environmental dynamics mid to late Holocene settlement in the Tobol-Ishim forest-steppe region, West Siberia
Environmental multi-proxy records provide evidence on climate dynamics and related natural transformations in the forest-steppe / parkland zone of SW West Siberia during the last. 8 500 years from the late Boreal to Sub-Atlantic Period, chronologically encompassing the regional cultural evolution ti...
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| Format: | Article in Journal/Newspaper |
| Language: | English |
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Pergamon Elsevier Science Ltd.
2010
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| Online Access: | http://publikace.k.utb.cz/handle/10563/1001691 |
| Summary: | Environmental multi-proxy records provide evidence on climate dynamics and related natural transformations in the forest-steppe / parkland zone of SW West Siberia during the last. 8 500 years from the late Boreal to Sub-Atlantic Period, chronologically encompassing the regional cultural evolution time span from the Mesolithic to the historical times. Pollen spectra from the investigated stratified sites indicate large-scale landscape restructurings related to both the natural as well as intensified anthropogenic activities in the forest-steppe and taiga parkland zones at several stages during the Holocene and migrations of cultural communities in response to climate variations and progressing aridity. These climatically-triggered vegetation zone shifts and territorial population movements are well manifested in the material culture. |
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