Chronology and Possible Links between Climatic and Cultural Change During the First Millennium BC in Southern Siberia and Central Asia
Author
Zaitseva, G. I.van Geel, B.
Bokovenko, N. A.
Chugunov, K. V.
Dergahev, V. A.
Dirksen, V. G.
Koulkova, M. A.
Nagler, A.
Parzinger, G.
van der Plicht, J.
Bourova, N. D.
Lebedeva, L. M.
Issue Date
2004-01-01Keywords
absolute agearchaeology
Arzhan 2 burial mound
Asia
Bronze Age
C 14
carbon
Cenozoic
Central Asia
climate change
cores
geochemistry
Holocene
human activity
humidity
Iron Age
isotopes
Kutuzhekovo Lake
lacustrine environment
lake sediments
microfossils
Minusinsk Valley
miospores
Neolithic
palynomorphs
pollen
pollen diagrams
Quaternary
radioactive isotopes
sediments
Siberia
soil profiles
southern Siberia
steppes
Stone Age
Uyuk Valley
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Zaitseva, G. I., van Geel, B., Bokovenko, N. A., Chugunov, K. V., Dergachev, V. A., Dirksen, V. G., ... & Lebedeva, L. M. (2004). Chronology and possible links between climatic and cultural change during the first millennium BC in southern Siberia and Central Asia. Radiocarbon, 46(1), 259-276.Journal
RadiocarbonDescription
From the 18th International Radiocarbon Conference held in Wellington, New Zealand, September 1-5, 2003.Additional Links
http://radiocarbon.webhost.uits.arizona.edu/Abstract
We reconstructed climate change during the second half of the Holocene for the Minusinsk (southern Siberia) and the Uyuk (Central Asia) valleys in the Eurasian steppe zone. Sediment cores from 2 lakes and a soil profile from the Arzhan-2 burial mount were investigated. We combined pollen and geochemical analyses and radiocarbon dating with the archaeological record. A sharp increase of human population density occurred at the transition from the Bronze Age to Iron Age (about 2700 cal BP). The most representative Scythian culture started in the Uyuk and the Minusinsk valleys after increased humidity and occupation capacity of the steppe zone during the 9th century BC.Type
Proceedingstext
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enISSN
0033-8222ae974a485f413a2113503eed53cd6c53
10.1017/S0033822200039576