scholarly journals Topical issues in the study of the early Aeneolithic of the Don forest-steppe (chronology, periodization, synchronization)

2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 215-220
Author(s):  
Andrey Mikhailovich Skorobogatov
Keyword(s):  
Forest Steppe ◽  
Stone Age ◽  
East European ◽  
Relevant Today ◽  
Long Time ◽  
Absolute Dating ◽  
The Absolute ◽  
Tripolye Culture

For a long time, the Eneolithic of the Don forest-steppe remained one of the least studied epochs in the archaeological scheme of the region. However, since the late 1960s, sites with materials of the Eneolithic have been actively explored on the territory of the Voronezh and Lipetsk Regions. By the 1980s, researchers had a concept for the development of copper-stone age cultures within the system of the Mariupol cultural-historical region of the Dnieper-Don-Ural interfluve, which is still relevant today. The criteria for distinguishing the Eneolithic era in the steppe and forest-steppe spaces of the East European steppe and forest-steppe were substantiated. The idea of their synchronization with complexes of the Tripolye A period was designated. The early Eneolithic in the Don forest-steppe was marked by the appearance of a population with specific ceramics of Nizhnedonskaya culture. Questions of the chronology of the early Eneolithic were solved exclusively by methods of analogies with the materials of neighboring territories and synchronization with the local Neolithic complexes. The paper deals with the problems of chronology, periodization and synchronization of materials from the early Aeneolithic of the territory of the Don forest-steppe. The focus is on the absolute dating of the Nizhnedonskaya culture of the Mariupol cultural-historical region and its synchronization with the early Tripolye Culture. According to all the data available to date, the regions early Eneolithic can be dated from 5300 to 4250 BC.

The Autonomy of the South-East European Copper Age

1970 ◽  
Vol 35 ◽  
pp. 12-47 ◽  
Author(s):  
Colin Renfrew
Keyword(s):  
Bronze Age ◽  
Essential Elements ◽  
Western Mediterranean ◽  
The South ◽  
East European ◽  
Great Achievement ◽  
Absolute Dating ◽  
The Absolute ◽  
The Many ◽  
The One

Ten years have now elapsed since the death of V. Gordon Childe, whose great achievement it was to relate the many disparate elements of European prehistory into a single coherent whole. These ten years have seen not only the sustained application of radiocarbon dating to the south-east European Neolithic (Quitta, 1967; Kohl and Quitta, 1966), but the publication of important stratigraphic sequences, especially that of the great tell at Karanovo in Bulgaria (Georgiev, 1961). Both these advances put in question one of the essential elements in Childe's structure for the chronology of Europe: the chronological equation between Troy I and the Vinča culture of Jugoslavia (Childe, 1929, 32; 1927; 1939).This is the cornerstone for the Neolithic and Early Bronze Age of much of Europe, and to remove it would cause widespread changes both in chronology and culture history.The crucial importance of this point has been well expressed by Professor Clark (1938): ‘Thanks to the synchronisms established between Troy and Iberia and the western Mediterranean on the one hand, and central and northern Europe on the other, any important alterations in the absolute dating of the successive “cities” is bound to affect the dating of every culture in Europe of the period, much in the same way as fluctuations in the price of certain key commodities are felt in the exchanges of the whole world’. Today, of course, it is not so much the absolute dating of Troy which is in question, but the synchronisms with Europe: the effect, however, is the same.

Surface Runoff and Snowmelt Infiltration into the Soil on Plowlands in the Forest-Steppe and Steppe Zones of the East European Plain

2018 ◽  
Vol 51 (1) ◽  
pp. 66-72 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. T. Barabanov ◽  
S. V. Dolgov ◽  
N. I. Koronkevich ◽  
V. I. Panov ◽  
A. I. Petel’ko
Keyword(s):  
Surface Runoff ◽  
East European Plain ◽  
Forest Steppe ◽  
East European

Shimao culture: naming, distribution, and chronology

2021 ◽  
Vol 21 (1) ◽  
pp. 144-150
Author(s):  
Zhouyong Sun ◽  
Jing Shao ◽  
Nan Di
Keyword(s):  
Inner Mongolia ◽  
Northern China ◽  
Distribution Area ◽  
Central Plains ◽  
Archaeological Data ◽  
Absolute Dating ◽  
Northern Shaanxi ◽  
The Absolute ◽  
Three Phases

Abstract By synthesizing previous studies and the most updated archaeological data by typical stratigraphic contexts and assemblages, Hetao region cultural remains represented by li-tripods with double-handles should be considered part of the Shimao culture. With its core distribution area spanning from northern Shaanxi to central-northern Shanxi to central-southern Inner Mongolia, the development of Shimao culture can be divided into three phases: early, middle, and late. The absolute dating of the Shimao culture ranges from approximately 2300 BCE to 1800 BCE. The Shimao culture was therefore a major late Longshan archaeological culture in northern China that stands apart from its peers in the Central Plains.

The Secular Appropriation of Hasidism by an East European Jewish Intellectual: Dubnow, Renan, and the Besht

2004 ◽  
pp. 151-162
Author(s):  
Robert M. Seltzer
Keyword(s):  
Eastern Europe ◽  
Common People ◽  
History Of Christianity ◽  
East European ◽  
The Social ◽  
Long Time ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Common ◽  
European Jewish ◽  
The 19Th Century

This chapter studies the role that Hasidism played in the thought of the modernized Jewish intelligentsia of Eastern Europe toward the end of the 19th century. Simon Dubnow played a pivotal role in the emergence of this new image of Hasidism. In his autobiography, Dubnow describes in some detail the influence on him at that time of Leo Tolstoy and Ernest Renan. The influence of Renan's History of Christianity is quite evident in the structure of Dubnow's History of Hasidism as well as in some of Dubnow's solutions to problems of interpretation. Like Renan, Dubnow opened with a discussion of the social and intellectual background of a movement that can be traced to a founder known only for a long time through oral sources which retained the character of legend or saga. Applying Renan's statement that such pious biographies have a historical core, Dubnow stripped the life of the Baal Shem Tov, as recorded in the Shivhei ha-Besht, of its supernatural elements to reveal a simple, humble man who loved nature, especially the forests of the Carpathian mountains; a man who had immense affection for the common people and disdain for the proud, aloof scholars of his time and who preached a lofty doctrine of religious pantheism and universal brotherhood.

Revised ‘absolute’ dating of the early Mesolithic site of Star Carr, North Yorkshire, in the light of changes in the early Holocene tree-ring chronology

Antiquity ◽  
2000 ◽  
Vol 74 (284) ◽  
pp. 304-307 ◽  
Author(s):  
Petra Dark
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Change ◽  
Tree Ring ◽  
Calibration Curve ◽  
Early Holocene ◽  
Tree Ring Chronology ◽  
Absolute Dating ◽  
The Absolute ◽  
Holocene Environmental Change ◽  
Radiocarbon Calibration

Recent revision of the radiocarbon calibration curve for the early Holocene has implications for the ‘absolute’ date of Mesolithic sites such as Star Carr, and for their relationship to the timescale of early Holocene environmental change.

Radiocarbon age of Holocene paleosols of the East European forest–steppe zone

CATENA ◽  
1998 ◽  
Vol 34 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 197-207 ◽  
Author(s):  
A.L Alexandrovskiy ◽  
O.A Chichagova
Keyword(s):  
Steppe Zone ◽  
Forest Steppe ◽  
East European ◽  
Radiocarbon Age ◽  
European Forest

scholarly journals INTRASPECIFIC POLYMORPHISM OF PLANTS IN THE СENTRAL RUSSIAN FOREST-STEPPE

Ekosistemy ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol - (21) ◽  
pp. 31-39
Author(s):  
Z. P. Mukovnina ◽  
A. A. Voronin
Keyword(s):  
Botanical Garden ◽  
Intraspecific Diversity ◽  
Continuous Series ◽  
Forest Steppe ◽  
State University ◽  
Natural Flora ◽  
Long Time ◽  
External Causes ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Russian Forest

Research of the flora of some areas of the Central Russian forest-steppe shows that a number of plants has deviations from the main species characteristics. The fact that there is a continuous series of variations from individual to species level in nature has long been known for a long time (Darwin, 1991). The reasons and results of this are very different and unpredictable. The ability of plants to change their phenotype is genetically determined. The scope of intraspecific differentiation depends on many external causes. The intraspecific potential of plants reveals itself when ecological situation and geographical fragmentation modify. In result, populations which significantly differ from the main genotype are formed. The impact of new environmental conditions is shown in the examples of Genista tinctoria L., Achillea millefolium L., Salvia pratensis L. The Trifolium lupinaster or Lupinaster pentaphyllus is an example of the introduction of geographically distant genetically stable races. Some species can be represented by different morphobiotypes. For example, erect (haying) and lying (pasture) forms of Lotus corniculatus, Medicago falcata, Astragalus onobrychis. There are some transitional forms. Populations of tall and low growing Anemone sylvestris were observed. A pronounced manifestation of intraspecific diversity is the polychrome of flowers. It was found in рlants from different families: species of iris, Schrenka tulip (Tulipa suaveolens), lily of the Saranka (Lilium pilosiusculum) and others. The collection of the botanical garden for over 20 years contains garden forms of plants of natural flora, which appeared due to spontaneous new formations. These are variegated forms of Aegopodium podagraria and Galeobdolon luteum. The results of the introduction of species and intraspecific diversity of rare and economically valuable plants in the Botanical garden of the Voronezh state University are presented.

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