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Natural limits and opportunities for historical and contemporary land use: case study of Turan-Uyuk Basin, Southern Siberiaтезисы доклада
- Автор: Ilinova N.V.
- Сборник: 2024 Spring Conference of the Association for Environmental Archaeology
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- Год издания: 2024
- Место издания: University of Algarve, Faro, Portugal
- Первая страница: 12
- Последняя страница: 12
- Аннотация: One of the largest mound fields of the Scythian period, known as the Tuvan "Valley of theKings", is located in the Republic of Tuva in Southern Siberia, Russia. Most of the knownmounds here are grouped into several isolated barrow clusters dating from the 9th to 4thcenturies BC. It is believed to be one of the oldest in the world and remains poorly understood.The valley's territory features an extremely continental climate with wide temperature range,insufficient water supply, and harsh differentiation of moisture regimes, making it a uniquearea due to landscape contrast.Our study aims to identify the limiting and favorable factors for settlement and economicdevelopment to reveal relationships between location of anthropogenic objects and naturallandscape conditions in the Turan-Uyuk basin. We applied methods of processing andanalyzing to a series of satellite images, climatic time series and landscape mapping. Theresults indicate that the primary group of monuments in the 'Valley of the Kings' is situated atthe junction of erosion cones and the main surface. The main surface is located on flat foothillpeneplainized plains composed of loess, ancient alluvial loams, and loess-like loams. Theseplains are under moderately dry fine-sodded steppe on chernozem-meadow soils. The locationof mounds is linked to areas that are most conducive to livestock production due to increasedgrass productivity and a more favorable moisture regime. These areas include erosion conesand floodplains that experience periodic increases in moisture. Current settlement system ingeneral follows the same factors as the ancient one. Residential areas avoid landscapes withstrong natural limitations such as soil salinization and stoniness. The location of the mostancient local complex of the Tunnug burial mound in the inaccessible floodplain with long-terminundation may be a variant of adaptation to protect the mound from possible looting.
- Добавил в систему: Ильинова Наталья Владимировна