Concealed Evidence of Early Human-Environment Interactions in Sedimentary Archives of Small Rivers in the Forest-Steppe Belt of Eurasia

The results of on-site archaeological investigations alone are not enough to reconstruct landscape histories, because they provide incomplete information on past environments. In contrast, off-site sedimentary archives can provide information on the interaction of natural and human processes.

Shifting cultivation as a factor of population mobility during the Migration period in the forest-steppe region of Eurasia

The population movement during the whole extent of Migration period was spread at mass level, forming one of the important factors of economic development of the forest-steppe and broadleaf forests in Eastern Europe. The issue is conditioned by the fact, that the migrating groups were introducing

Challenges and opportunities in phytolith analysis of palaeoenvironments

DIAGNOSTIC FEATURES OF SWIDDEN CULTIVATION IN SOILS OF THE TEMPERATE FOREST ZONE

Swidden cultivation is believed to be one of the most-geographically-ubiquitous agricultural systems in the world, spanning from the tropics to the boreal forest zone in both hemispheres. Chronologically, it has been utilized from 3rd millennium BC to 20th cent. AD. Presumably, the swidden technolo

FOREST-STEPPE TRANSITIONS AND PEOPLING OF THE LANDSCAPES OF THE MID-VOLGA REGION IN THE 1ST MILLENNIUM AD

In the forest-steppe zone of European Russia, the first millennium AD was a time of major changes in the populations, agricultural technologies, social structure, and settlement patterns. A heart of the forest-steppe zone, the Mid-Volga region underwent a transition from a non-populated, mainly for