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Chronology and Possible Links Between Climatic and Cultural Change During the First Millennium Bc in Southern Siberia and Central Asia

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 July 2016

G I Zaitseva ,
B van Geel ,
N A Bokovenko ,
K V Chugunov ,
V A Dergachev ,
V G Dirksen ,
M A Koulkova ,
A Nagler ,
G Parzinger  and
J van der Plicht
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G I Zaitseva*
Affiliation:
Institute for the History of Material Culture, Russian Academy of Sciences, St. Petersburg, Russia, Dvortsovaya nab. 18, 191186, St. Petersburg, Russia.
B van Geel
Affiliation:
Institute for Biodiversity and Ecosystem Dynamics, Faculty of Science, University of Amsterdam, Kruislaan 318, 1098 SM Amsterdam, the Netherlands. Email: vangeel@science.uva.nl.
N A Bokovenko
Affiliation:
Institute for the History of Material Culture, Russian Academy of Sciences, St. Petersburg, Russia, Dvortsovaya nab. 18, 191186, St. Petersburg, Russia.
K V Chugunov
Affiliation:
State Hermitage Museum, Dvortsovaya nab. 36, 191186 St. Petersburg, Russia. Email: oaves@hermitage.ru.
V A Dergachev
Affiliation:
A.F. Ioffe Physical-Technical Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences, Polithechnicheskaya str. 26, 19402 St. Petersburg, Russia. Email: v.dergachev@pop.ioffe.rssi.ru.
V G Dirksen
Affiliation:
Institute of Volcanic Geology and Geochemistry, Russian Academy of Sciences, Piipa blvd. 9, 683006 Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, Russia. Email: dirksen@VD3155.spb.edu.
M A Koulkova
Affiliation:
Institute for the History of Material Culture, Russian Academy of Sciences, St. Petersburg, Russia, Dvortsovaya nab. 18, 191186, St. Petersburg, Russia.
A Nagler
Affiliation:
Deutsches Archäologisches Institut, Eurasien-Abteilung, Podbielskiallee 69–71, 14195 Berlin, Germany. Email: eurasien@dainst.de.
G Parzinger
Affiliation:
Institute of Volcanic Geology and Geochemistry, Russian Academy of Sciences, Piipa blvd. 9, 683006 Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, Russia. Email: dirksen@VD3155.spb.edu.
J van der Plicht
Affiliation:
Centre for Isotope Research, University of Groningen, Nijenborgh 4, 9747 AG Groningen, the Netherlands. Email: plicht@phys.rug.nl.
N D Bourova
Affiliation:
Institute for the History of Material Culture, Russian Academy of Sciences, St. Petersburg, Russia, Dvortsovaya nab. 18, 191186, St. Petersburg, Russia.
L M Lebedeva
Affiliation:
Institute for the History of Material Culture, Russian Academy of Sciences, St. Petersburg, Russia, Dvortsovaya nab. 18, 191186, St. Petersburg, Russia.
*
Corresponding author. Email: ganna@mail.wplus.net.
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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.

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Radiocarbon , Volume 46 , Issue 1: Proceedings of the 18th International Radiocarbon Conference (Part 1 of 2), Conference Editors: Nancy Beavan Athfield, Rodger J Sparks , 2004 , pp. 259 - 276
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Copyright © 2004 by the Arizona Board of Regents on behalf of the University of Arizona 

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