Kazan (Volga region) Federal University, KFU
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ALTERED SOILS AT AN ARCHEOLOGICAL SITE OF THE BRONZE AGE: THE TYATER-ARASLANOVO-II SETTLEMENT, SOUTHERN CIS-URAL REGION, RUSSIA
Form of presentationArticles in international journals and collections
Year of publication2021
Языканглийский
  • Gusarov Artem Viktorovich, author
  • Abakumov Evgeny , author
  • Adelmurzina Ilgiza , author
  • Atnabaev Niyaz , author
  • Komissarov Mikhail , author
  • Kungurtsev Andrey , author
  • Obydennova Gulnara , author
  • Suleymanov Azamat , author
  • Suleymanov Ruslan , author
  • Bibliographic description in the original language Suleymanov, R.; Obydennova, G.; Kungurtsev, A.; Atnabaev, N.; Komissarov, M.; Gusarov, A.; Adelmurzina, I.; Suleymanov, A.; Abakumov, E. Human-Altered Soils at an Archeological Site of the Bronze Age: The Tyater-Araslanovo-II Settlement, Southern Cis-Ural Region, Russia // Quaternary 2021, 4, 32. https://doi.org/10.3390/quat4040032
    Annotation This paper presents the results of studying the soils at the archeological site of the TyaterAraslanovo-II settlement located in the Republic of Bashkortostan, eastern European Russia. The settlement functioned in the 15th–12th centuries BCE (the Late Bronze Age). We compared the soil properties at four sites in the study area: archeological (1), buried (2), affected by long pyrogenic exposure (3), and background site (4). In soil samples, the total carbon content, the fractional composition of humus and organic matter characteristics, alkaline hydrolyzable nitrogen, total phosphorus, mobile phosphorus, potassium, absorbed calcium and magnesium, pH, particle size distribution, basal soil respiration, and optical density were estimated. The study results showed the anthropogenic impact on the archeological site's soils. The newly formed AU horizon at the archeological site (1), affected by the cattle summer camp, was richer in soil nutrients and agrochemical properties, namely, the content of exchangeable and gross forms of phosphorus, alkaline hydrolyzable nitrogen, and exchange cations of the soil absorbing complex compared to the reference soil (4). For the pyrogenic layer (AU[hh]pyr) from the ancient furnace (fireplace) (3), the mobile and total forms of phosphorus were several times higher than those in the reference soil (4) but inferior regarding other agrochemical parameters. Thus, the activities of ancient people (especially cattle breeding) greatly influenced the properties of the soil.
    Keywords Ancient settlement; soil properties; organic substances; basal respiration; optical density
    The name of the journal Quaternary
    URL https://www.mdpi.com/2571-550X/4/4/32
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