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Natural and anthropogenic impact on the formation of archaeological layers in a lake shore area: case study from the Serteya II site, Western Russia

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Mazurkevich A., Kittel P., Maigrot Y., Dolbunova E., Mroczkowska A., Wieckowska-Lüth M., Piech W.

Acta Geographica Lodziensia

2020

vol. 110

81-102

The article presents the results of a study on archaeological structures and horizons developed in the palaeolake shore-zone of the Serteya II site that was occupied intermittently and to a greater or lesser intensity from the Mesolithic up to the Middle Ages. The Serteya II site is a multilayer complex used by hunter–fisher–gatherer communities in the 9th–8th mill. BC, and from the end of the 7th till the end of the 3rd mill. BC. The article is focused on the particularities of the formation of archaeological layers and the reconstruction of the ancient environment in different periods of time. The study of the sets of artefacts, their state of preservation, as well as the traits of archaeological features, may indicate the peculiarities of the formation of different sedimentological units. Based on the results of complex natural-scientific research it was possible to reconstruct the palaeo-ecology of changing water regimes as well as changes in environmental conditions.

Lacustrine, fluvial and slope deposits in the wetland shore area in Serteya, Western Russia

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Kittel P., Mazurkevich A., Alexandrovskiy A., Dolbunova E., Krupski M., Szmańda J., Stachowicz-Rybka R., Cywa K., Mroczkowska A., Okupny D.

Acta Geographica Lodziensia

2020

vol. 110

103-124

The article presents the results of a study on sediment deposition processes in the palaeolake shore zone, at the multilayered Serteya II archaeological site in Western Russia. In recent years, geomorphological, palaeopedological and palaeoecological research was undertaken in strict cooperation with archaeological fieldwork. The Serteya II site occupies a substantial area of a kame terrace and biogenic plain within a palaeolake basin. From an archaeological point of view, the site is represented by few Mesolithic artefacts, but mostly by remnants of hunter–gatherer–fisher communities attributed in the Russian scientific tradition to the Neolithic period and dated from 6300 BC to 2000 BC. Later, the area was used by people in the Bronze Age, Early Iron Age and Early Middle Ages. The integration of archaeological and multidisciplinary palaeoenvironmental research allowed the natural and human induced deposition of mineral-organic and minerogenic sediments to be reconstructed, as well as the development of structures in the lake shore zone. The changes from lacustrine to fluvial system were documented and the human impact is recorded mostly in the acceleration of slope processes.

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2 Dolbunova E.

2 Kittel P.

2 Mazurkevich A.

2 Mroczkowska A.

1 Alexandrovskiy A.

1 Cywa K.

1 Krupski M.

1 Maigrot Y.

1 Okupny D.

1 Piech W.

1 Stachowicz-Rybka R.

1 Szmańda J.

1 Wieckowska-Lüth M.

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Natural and anthropogenic impact on the formation of archaeological layers in a lake shore area: case study from the Serteya II site, Western Russia

Lacustrine, fluvial and slope deposits in the wetland shore area in Serteya, Western Russia