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Chronology of Soil Evolution and Climatic Changes in the Dry Steppe Zone of the Northern Caucasus, Russia, During the 3rd Millennium BC

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 July 2016

A L Alexandrovskiy ,
J van der Plicht ,
A B Belinskiy  and
O S Khokhlova
A L Alexandrovskiy
Affiliation:
Institute of Geography, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia
A B Belinskiy
Affiliation:
State Department “Nasledie”, Stavropol, Russia
O S Khokhlova
Affiliation:
Institute of Physical, Chemical and Biological Problems of Soil Science, Russian Academy of Sciences, Pushchino, Moscow region, Russia
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Chrono-sequences of paleosols buried under different mounds of the large Ipatovo Kurgan, constructed during the Bronze Age, have been studied to reconstruct climatic changes in the dry steppe zone of the Northern Caucasus, Russia. Abrupt climatic and environmental changes in the third millennium BC have been reconstructed, using morphological and analytical data of the soil. Based on accelerator mass spectrometry (AMS) dates of small charcoal fragments from the soil chrono-sequence, we concluded that two upper paleosols (with the clearest evidence of arid pedogenesis) developed between about 2600–2450 BC.

Type
I. Our ‘Dry’ Environment: Above Sea Level
Information
Radiocarbon , Volume 43 , Issue 2B: Proceedings of the 17th International Radiocarbon Conference (Part 2 of 3), Conference Editors: Israel Carmi, Elisabetta Boaretto , 2001 , pp. 629 - 635
Copyright
Copyright © 2001 by the Arizona Board of Regents on behalf of the University of Arizona 

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