Ancient agriculture in Western Siberia: problems of argumentation, paleoethnobotanic methods, and analysis of data

Ryabogina, N.E.; Ivanov, Sergey Nikolaevich

doi:10.1016/j.aeae.2012.02.011

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“…Based on the evidence from China alone, this is, in fact, the most robust model. It has problems, however, in that it postulates the introduction of wheat from the north-west, from southern Siberia through Mongolia in areas which, although admittedly also under-researched, show little signs of early agriculture (Ryabogina and Ivanov, 2011;Svyatko et al, 2013). Svyatko et al (2013) in fact argue that the route of transmission was in the other direction; that millet agriculture was introduced to southern Siberia from China.…”

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confidence: 92%

“…The economy seems to have been based largely on herding. Cereal agriculture was known, but seems to have been rarely practiced (Frachetti et al, 2010: 994;Ryabogina and Ivanov, 2011). Recent stable isotope analysis of the diet of prehistoric populations along the Upper Yenisei in southern Siberia (Svyatko et al, 2013) suggests that agriculture only appears there from the Late Bronze to Early Iron Age, and was based on the cultivation of millet.…”

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confidence: 97%

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The origins of wheat in China and potential pathways for its introduction: A review

Betts

Jia

Dodson

2014

Quaternary International

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Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 97%

The origins of wheat in China and potential pathways for its introduction: A review

Betts

Jia

Dodson

2014

Quaternary International

132

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“…Ryabogina and Ivanov (2011, p. 102) point out that these grains no longer exist and the exact identifications are missing; nonetheless, they only date to the end of the first millennium BC. Impressions of free-threshing wheat and millet on ceramics from the first millennium BC were recovered at the site of Milovanovo 3, attesting to the farnorthern spread of these crops along the mountain corridor by the Final Bronze Age or early Iron Age (Ryabogina and Ivanov 2011). The rest of the dates for early agriculture across the northern forest-steppe/southern Siberia, most of which are based on pollen data, place the genesis of plant cultivation in this eco-band between the Final Bronze Age and early Iron Age.…”

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Agriculture in the Central Asian Bronze Age

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By the late third/early second millennium BC, increased interconnectivity in the mountains of Central Asia linked populations across Eurasia. This increasing interaction would later culminate in the Silk Road. While these populations are typically lumped together under the title of 'nomads', a growing corpus of data illustrates how diverse their economic strategies were, in many cases representing mixed agropastoral systems. These Central Asian low-investment agropastoralists are responsible for connecting the great centers of plant domestication, and through a process of experimentation and exchange shaped economies across the Old World. In this article, I synthesize the evidence for the movement of agricultural technology through this region, which ultimately brought southwest Asian and East Asian crops together for the first time. By the Late Bronze Age, a specific package of agricultural crops had developed across the entire mountain corridor, including broomcorn millet, peas, naked six-row barley, and highly compact free-threshing wheat. Each of these crops has a distinct narrative, and I approach the topic of their spread individually. I also show that agriculture did not spread across the steppe during the Bronze Age and that crops cultivated in the forest-steppe of Eastern Europe were distinct from those of the mountain corridor.

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“…So far, the majority of palynological studies in the steppe environment has been restricted to cultural layers (Lapteva and Korona 2013;Prikhod'ko et al 2013). Further studies have taken place in the forest steppe (Zakh et al 2010;Krivonogov et al 2012;Blyakharchuk 2003; for cultural layers see Ryabogina and Ivanov 2011), the mountainous regions (Khomutova 1995;Maslenikova et al 2012), or the low hills farther east in Kazakhstan (Kremenetski 1997;Kremenetski et al 1997). The available chronology does not provide a consistent picture of the climatic conditions during the Holocene owing to a lack of suitable archives and a low number of 14 C-dates (Fig.…”

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Palynological and sedimentological evidence from the Trans-Ural steppe (Russia) and its palaeoecological implications for the sudden emergence of Bronze Age sedentarism

Stobbe

Gumnior

Röpke

et al. 2014

Veget Hist Archaeobot

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At the turn of the second to the third millennium BC, fortified and systematically organized settlements along with a developed metallurgy emerged in the TransUral steppe. In order to reconstruct the related vegetation and climatic changes in the area and to detect effects of human impact during the respective Bronze-Age SintashtaPetrovka and Srubnaya-Alakul cultures (2100-1650 cal BC), palynological and sedimentological investigations accompanying archaeological excavations were carried out. Statistical analyses of pollen spectra from two sediment cores in the immediate vicinity of the settlement Kamennyi Ambar demonstrate substantial similarities in Bronze Age and present vegetation covers. Higher percentages of arboreal pollen, especially in respect of deciduous trees, and consistently high values of Artemisia within the regional spectra suggest that Bronze Age cultures developed in a relatively humid environment. Simultaneously, higher values of Chenopodiaceae, Plantago and Cichorioideae point to steppe degradation at local scales, whereas regional vegetation appears to have been relatively unaffected by human activities. Although more than 30 localities in the micro-region of Karagaily Ayat were analyzed, none of these sediment cores accounts for a continuous sedimentation during the last 9,000 years. Our results reveal that climatic fluctuations are not always directly reflected by sediment formation, with many nonclimatic factors, such as post-sedimentary processes, local morphology and erosion believed to be crucial. Only the use of high resolution AMS radiocarbon dating is suitable to detect hiatuses, hence providing a valuable clue to the interpretation of palaeoenvironmental conditions.

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Ancient agriculture in Western Siberia: problems of argumentation, paleoethnobotanic methods, and analysis of data

Cited by 27 publications

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The origins of wheat in China and potential pathways for its introduction: A review

The origins of wheat in China and potential pathways for its introduction: A review

Agriculture in the Central Asian Bronze Age

Palynological and sedimentological evidence from the Trans-Ural steppe (Russia) and its palaeoecological implications for the sudden emergence of Bronze Age sedentarism

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