TY  - JOUR
A1  - Zhilich, Snezhana
A1  - Rudaya, Natalia
A1  - Krivonogov, Sergei
A1  - Nazarova, Larisa B.
A1  - Pozdnyakov, Dmitry
T1  - Environmental dynamics of the Baraba forest-steppe (Siberia) over the last 8000 years and their impact on the types of economic life of the  population
JF  - Quaternary science reviews : the international multidisciplinary research and review journal
N2  - This article offers a reconstruction of the vegetation and climate of the south-western Siberian Baraba forest-steppe area during the last ca. 8000 years. The analysis of palynological data from the sediment core of Lake Bolshie Toroki using quantitative methods has made it possible to reconstruct changes of the dominant types of vegetation and mean July air temperatures. Coniferous forests grew in the vicinity of the lake, and mean July air temperatures were similar to present-day ones between 7.9 and 7.0 kyr BP. The warmest and driest climate occurred at 7.0-5.0 kyr BP. At that time, the region had open steppe landscapes; birch groves began to spread. A cooling trend is seen after 5.5 kyr BP, when forest-steppe began to emerge. Steppe communities started to dominate again after 1.5 kyr BP. Mean July air temperatures lower than now are reconstructed for the period of 1.9-1 kyr BP, and then the temperatures became similar to present-day ones. Comparing the archaeological data on the types of economy of the population which inhabited the Baraba forest-steppe with the data on changes in the natural environment revealed a connection between the gradual transition from hunting and fishing to livestock breeding and the development of forest-steppe landscapes with a decrease in the area covered by forests. The development of the forest-steppe as an ecotonic landscape starting around 5 kyr BP might have contributed to the coexistence of several archaeological cultures with different types of economy on the same territory. (C) 2017 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
KW  - Holocene
KW  - Climate dynamics
KW  - Russia
KW  - Vegetation dynamics
KW  - Baraba forest-steppe
KW  - Archaeology
KW  - Transfer function
Y1  - 2017
U6  - https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2017.03.022
SN  - 0277-3791
VL  - 163
SP  - 152
EP  - 161
PB  - Elsevier
CY  - Oxford
ER  -