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The Occupation History of the Region Between the Dvina and Lovat Rivers in Relation to the Dynamics of Environmental Change

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 July 2016

G. I. Zaitseva
Affiliation:
The Institute of the History of Material Culture of the Russian Academy of Sciences Dvortsovaya Naberezhnaya 18, St. Petersburg 191065 Russia
A. M. Mikliaev
Affiliation:
The State Hermitage, Dvortsovaya Naberezhnaya 36, St. Petersburg 191065 Russia
A. N. Mazurkevich
Affiliation:
The State Hermitage, Dvortsovaya Naberezhnaya 36, St. Petersburg 191065 Russia
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Abstract

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We show how 14C dating may be combined with palynological and paleogeographical research to correlate human occupation history with environmental change, focusing on archaeological sites in the Dvina–Lovat River region of Russia. Cultures in this region range from Early Neolithic to the Middle Ages, ca. 5500 bc–ad 100, based on calibrated 14C ages. The dynamics of water basins in the region, related to climatic change, are one cause of population migration.

Type
II. 14C in Archaeology
Copyright
Copyright © the Department of Geosciences, The University of Arizona 

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