Natalia Ryabogina

University of Gothenburg | GU · Department of Historical Studies

In this article, we discuss the results of the study of ash heaps typical for the steppe belt of the Urals, Ka-zakhstan and Siberia. These are specific objects adjacent to settlements of the Middle and Late Bronze Age, their cultural layer contains archaeological finds and consists of loose soil similar in appearance to ash. However, de-bates about...

This article presents a series of recommendations for the publication of archaeological data, to improve their usability. These 12 recommendations were formulated by archaeological data experts who mined thousands of publications for different data types (including funerary practices, accelerator mass spectrometry dating, stable isotopes, zooarchae...

Изучение климатических изменений Приишимья (юго-западная часть Западной Сибири) началось с палиностратиграфического исследования Станичного, Калининского и Гладиловского Рямов [1–3], а также отложений археологических памятников [4]. Однако временной охват изученных природных архивов едва достигал 5 тыс. л. н., что не позволяло анализировать начало...

Free you can download it here: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1F0mnZB_BIOAQsYHvD1HYL4s3ei7eOaVj/view?usp=drive_link ..... Here we compare the long‐term dynamics of fires in the southern taiga of Western Siberia with changes in the environment and ancient economies. Utilizing charcoal particles extracted from peat sediments, we assess charcoal accu...

An ash heap is defined as a specific object at an archaeological site, usually in the form of a separate hillock containing a layer of finely-dispersed greyish-yellow or ash-coloured soil. The existing assumptions about the formation and functional pur-pose of ash heaps, as special archaeological objects found near the Bronze Age pastoral settlemen...

The North Eurasian forest and forest-steppe zones have sustained millennia of sociocultural connections among northern peoples. We present genome-wide ancient DNA data for 181 individuals from this region spanning the Mesolithic, Neolithic and Bronze Age. We find that Early to Mid-Holocene hunter-gatherer populations from across the southern forest...

The DIMA Network (Developing Innovative Multi-proxy Analyses – in Siberia and the Russian Far East (SRFE)) started from a small nucleus of palaeoenvironmental researchers in the UK and SRFE at a workshop in 2008 and currently includes researchers from over 25 institutions. The mutual interest in creating long-term records of environmental change wa...

The paper provides the results of the archaeological exploration of the Muginsky site (Akushinsky district of the Republic of Dagestan) and paleobotanical analysis of the obtained material. As a result of the investigations carried out, various archeological materials, mainly ceramic ware, have been uncovered. The finds of a fragment of a stone mac...

During the study of the process of settling people in the territory of the forest-steppe and steppe zones of Western Siberia, both valleyside settlement sites of the Bronze Age and watershed lakeside settlements have been identified. The settlement of Zolotoe 1 is one of the few sites of the Late Bronze Age investigated by excava-tions and confined...

The reconstruction of vegetation changes of foothill zone in the central part of the North Caucasus based on the data of the Tarskoe swamp is presented. The swamp is the largest in this region of the Caucasus and is the most promising peat paleoarchive. It has been studied earlier, but the cores were poorly dated. The Tarskoe was re-drilled, the se...

While early Turkic populations of northern Central Asia are traditionally thought to have been specialized nomads, over the past few years archaeological studies have shown that at least some of these peoples were engaged in farming, especially low-investment millet cultivation. The Turkic populations that spread across West Asia are thought to hav...

The paper presents a case study of a swamp, which succeeded a lake in the south of Western Siberia. Our investigated sediment core from the Oskino-09 peatbog site demonstrates local wetland development during the Middle-Late Holocene. A succession of the vegetal changes obtained by the plant microremains and palynological methods infers that the gr...

(I will be glad to send the article to all interested researchers! )___ The current study presents new palaeoecological records from arid areas in the western sector of the Caspian Lowland, covering the second half of the Holocene. Environmental alterations, driven by global climatic factors and regional features initiated by the Caspian Sea, were...

[Write to me and I will send you the article] Lacustrine-peat sediments from the Oskino-09 borehole in Western Siberia, which span the last 7.5 cal ka BP, were sampled for pollen and plant macro-remains to better understand regional climatic changes and the position of the forest-steppe border. Analysis of palynological assemblages indicate that me...

The paper concerns the analysis of the local environment around the multi-layer settlements of Mergen 6 and 7 situated in the immediate vicinity of each other. The settlements existed successively (partly contempora-neously in the early and high Neolithic) in the forest-steppe belt of Western Siberia. Two methods were chosen to obtain the results:...

A radiocarbon dated pollen profil from the centre of Gnadensee, lower Lake Constance, from a water depth of 20 m, covering the Late Würmian and the complete Holocene

The study, based on uniformed criteria, summarizes a large series of palynological data and is aimed at re-construction of the vegetation history of the second half of the Holocene based on pollen data from peatlands. The main objective of this work is to compare the results of palynological studies from cultural layers of 30 Neo-lithic-Medieval ar...

The Eurasian (née European) Modern Pollen Database (EMPD) was established in 2013 to provide a public database of high-quality modern pollen surface samples to help support studies of past climate, land cover, and land use using fossil pollen. The EMPD is part of, and complementary to, the European Pollen Database (EPD) which contains data on fossi...

Abstract. The Eurasian (née European) Modern Pollen Database (EMPD) was established in 2013 to provide a public database of high-quality modern pollen surface samples to help support studies of past climate, land-cover and land-use using fossil pollen. The EMPD is part of, and complementary to, the European Pollen Database (EPD) which contains data...

Dagestan (North-Eastern part of the Caucasus) is characterized by a unique historical and environment development, however, there is little, if no, data on nature changes throughout the Holocene history of the region. In contrast to the much-studied neighboring Caucasus regions, Dagestan remains mostly unexplored from the standpoint of paleoecology...

This paper presents some conclusions of a study of a long-term lake sequence in the southwestern part of the Western Siberian Plain. Environment changes in the Holocene were identified according to geochemical indices, accumulation rate, plant macrofossils, and pollen data of sediment in Lake Kyrtyma. As a result, we firstly obtained the data on cl...

The mountainous Dagestan region of the North-Eastern Caucasus has a unique historical development based in independent cereal domestication and terraced agriculture. However, there is little to no data on the nature and timing of environmental changes throughout the settlement history of this region. In contrast to the much-studied neighboring Cauc...

The article analyses new data, which provides the opportunity to reconstruct the natural environment of peo-ple in the Tobol area (forest-steppe zone of Western Siberia) in the 3rd–1st millennia BC. The authors consider the issue associated with the consistency between off-site pollen data and on-site palynological data, as well as how correctly th...

This paper presents the first result of a study of two long-term natural archives in the southwestern part of the Western Siberian Plain. Bchron age models based on 17 AMS dates allowed us to determine a chronology of changes in properties of lake and peat deposits. Significant changes in the Holocene were identified according to geochemical indice...

On the basis of complex paleogeographic studies, we have created a large-scale paleo-landscape map covering the territory of the Andreevskoye lake flow system, in-between the Tura and the Pyshma rivers (West Siberia), for the interval of 2850–2600 cal. BP. According to the mapping results, the areas of key vegetation types were determined. By selec...

The mountainous Dagestan region has a unique historical development, likely based in independent cereal domestication and terraced agriculture. However, there is little to no data on the nature and timing of environmental changes throughout the settlement history of this region. In contrast to the much studied neighboring Caucasus regions, Dagestan...

This article addresses one of the most important issues in landscape archaeology, i.e. the landscape prefe-rences of ancient populations depending on the patterns of nature management that these peopled used. Since forest-steppe regions are characterized by a mosaic plant cover, the appearance of residential landscapes — the natural environment aro...

The paper focuses on the new archaeobotanical data of the environment near the hillfort of Marai 1 and on evaluation of their role in the paleoeconomical changes in the forest-steppe area in the transition period from the Bronze to the Iron Age. Archaeological materials of the cultural layers characterize various paleoeconomic models which existed...

Continental-scale estimates of vegetation cover, including land-surface properties and biogeographic trends, reflect the response of plant species to climate change over the past millennia. These estimates can help assess the effectiveness of simulations of climate change using forward and inverse modelling approaches. With the advent of transient...

Over the past decade researchers have directed greater focus toward understanding Bronze (3200-800 BC) and Iron Age (800 BC-AD 400) economies of Central Asia. In this article, we synthesize paleobotanical data from across this broad region and discuss the piecemeal archaeological evidence for agriculture in relation to environmental records of vege...

Die Wechselwirkungen zwischen naturräumlichen Veränderungen und Kulturentwicklung in der westsibirischen Waldsteppenzone im 2. und 1. Jahrtausend v. Chr. 1 Mit 5 Abbildungen 1 Einführung Das riesige Areal der Waldsteppen-und Steppenregionen im Süden der Westsibi-rischen Tiefebene war niemals ein in sich geschlossener Kulturraum. Als Teil des eurasi...

The problem relating to the emergence of ancient agriculture and the specifi c character of its development in Western Siberia is considered on the basis of paleobotanical data analysis. This article provides information on basic methods of searching and identifying phytoliths, grains (or grain prints), and pollen of domesticated cereals, as well a...

Environmental archaeology multi-proxy records provide eloquent evidence of climate changes and the related natural transformations in the forest-steppe/parkland zone of SW West Siberia during the last ca. 8500 years from the late Boreal to Sub-Atlantic period, chronologically encompassing the regional cultural evolution time span from the Mesolithi...

1, расположенного в подтаежной зоне в междуречье Туры и Пышмы. Основной комплекс и остатки исследованного соору-жения относятся к бархатовской культуре позднего бронзового века. Кроме того, получена небольшая серия керамики и единичные предметы инвентаря эпохи ранней бронзы. Наиболее близкие аналогии данная серия посуды находит в материалах одиновс...

6, Мергень 3 и Ласточкино Гнездо 1), определены наиболее перспективные направле-ния изучения палеоэкологической ситуации и среды обитания древнего человека в Приишимье. Впер-вые проанализирован палинологический состав серии поверхностных проб этого района, определены отличительные палинологические черты разных типов местообитаний, позволяющие расши...

4 [Цембалюк и др., 2009], Чепкуль 8Б [Зах, Цембалюк, 2009], Устюг 2 [Матвеева и др., 2010], городища Большой Имбиряй 3 [Матвеева, Цембалюк, 2004], Усть-Терсюкское [Рафикова и др., 2008]; возобновля-ются раскопки Баитовского городища [Habitats et necropolis..., 2002]. Анализ новых материалов и пересмотр коллекций, полученных в 70−80-е гг. XX в., выя...

4, расположенного в подтаежной зоне Притоболья. Основной комплекс находок, а также изученное сооружение относятся к щетковскому этапу бархатовской культуры позднего бронзового века. Помимо этого из ям получен незначительный материал баитовской культуры раннего железного века, а также единичные фраг-менты керамики энеолита и средневековья. Притоболь...