Impact of the Environment on Human Migration in Eurasia

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xiv

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2. Archaeology

   1. Chronology and Cultural Affinity of the Kurgan Arzhan-2 Complex According to Archaeological Data

      • K. V. Chugunov, H. Parzinger, A. Nagler

      Pages 1-7

   2. Some Chronological Problems of European Scythia: Archaeology and Radiocarbon

      • Alekseev A. Yu

      Pages 9-19

   3. Migrations of Early Nomads of the Eurasian Steppe in a Context of Climatic Changes

      • N. A. Bokovenko

      Pages 21-33

   4. The North Black Sea Steppes in the Cimmerian Epoch

      • S. V. Makhortykh

      Pages 35-44

3. Chronology

   1. Radiocarbon, the Calibration Curve and Scythian Chronology

      • J. van der Plicht

      Pages 45-61

   2. The Occupation History of the Southern Eurasis Steppe During the Holocene: Chronology, the Calibration Curve and Methodological Problems of the Scythian Chronology

      • Zaitseva G. I., Geel B

      Pages 63-82

   3. 14C Dating of the Siberian Steppe Zone from Bronze Age to Scythian Time

      • J Gorsdorf, H Parzinger, A Nagler

      Pages 83-89

   4. North-West Caspian Sea Steppe: Environmemt and Migration Crossroads of Pastoral Culture Population During the Third Millennium BC

      • N. I. Shishlina

      Pages 91-106

   5. Chronology of Pazyryk 2 and Ulandryk 4 Kurgans Based on High Resolution Radiocarbon Dating and Dendrochronology - A Step Towards More Precise Dating of Scythian Burials

      • I Hajdas, G Bonani, I Y. Slusarenko, M Seifert

      Pages 107-116

   6. Problems of Construction of a Radiocarbon Chronology for the Time Period 900-300 Cal BC

      • A Michczyński

      Pages 117-123

   7. Possibilities and Limitations of the Use of Stable Isotopes (δ13C and δ15N) from Human Bone Collagen and Carbonate as an Aid in Migration Studies

      • M Van Strydonck, M Boudin, A Ervynck

      Pages 125-135

   8. OSL Dating in Archaeology

      • A Bluszcz

      Pages 137-149

4. Environmental study

   1. The Sun, Climate Change and the Expansion of the Scythian Culture After 850 BC

      • B. van Geel, N. A. Bokovenko, N. D. Burova, K. V. Chugunov, V. A. Dergachev, V. G. Dirksen et al.

      Pages 151-158

   2. Large-Scale Periodicity of Climate Change During the Holocene

      • V. A. Dergachev, B. van Geel

      Pages 159-183

   3. Archaeological and Ethnographic Toxins in Museum Collections

      • B Derham

      Pages 185-197

   4. Changes in Palaeoenvironment and Human Migrations in the Centre of the Russian Plain

      • A. L. Alexandrovskiy, E. I. Alexandrovskaya

      Pages 199-208

   5. Environmental Changes of the Northeastern Black Sea’s Coastal Region During the Middle and Late Holocene

      • N. Bolikhovskaya, M. Kaitamba, A. Porotov, E. Fouache

      Pages 209-223

   6. Prehistoric Environment, Human Migrations and Origin of Pastoralism in Northern Eurasia

      • P M. Dolukhanov

      Pages 225-242

   7. Environmental Study of the Bronze-Iron Age Transition Period of Eastern Europe

      • Algirdas Gaigalas

      Pages 243-254

This book is a collection of the articles presented at the NATO Advanced Research Workshop (ARW 979859) held in St. Petersburg, from the 15-18 November 2003 in the Hermitage Museum. The title of the workshop was “The impact of the environment on Human Migration in Eurasia”. More than 40 scientists from Russia, Ukraine, Kazakhstan, Poland, Germany, Switzerland, The Netherlands, United Kingdom, Belgium, Finland, Lithuania and Latvia took part. The themes of the workshop focused on the origin, development, interactions, and migrations of prehistoric and ancient populations, specifically the Scythians, in Eurasia and their relationships with the environment of the time. The discussion of these questions necessitated the participation of specialists from a wide range of academic fields. Beyond any doubt, the environment played an important role in the life of ancient nomadic populations, forming the basis of their economies and influencing various aspects of their mode of life. In this respect, the collaboration of specialists in the Humanities and Science is essential for the solution of scientific questions concerning these peoples. Over the past few years, a large amount of new proxy data related to environmental changes during the Pleistocene and the Holocene and their impact on human life has become available. Our discussion was predominantly limited to environmental changes related to the Holocene. In st this period of about 10000 years, the main focus was on the 1 millennium BC.

• Holocene
• Migration
• Vor- und Frühgeschichte
• bronze age
• development
• iron age
• landscape

• University of Glasgow, UK

  E. Marian Scott

• State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia

  Andrey Yu. Alekseev

• Institute of History of Material Culture, RAS, St. Petersburg, Russia

  Ganna Zaitseva

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