1. Diagnostics of the Beginning of Agricultural Development of the Northwest of the East European Plain by Spore–Pollen Spectra.
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Tishkov, A. A., Tsarevskaya, N. G., Novenko, E. Yu., and Belonovskaya, E. A.
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AGRICULTURAL development , *PLANT indicators , *VEGETATION dynamics , *CULTIVATED plants , *PLAINS , *POLLEN - Abstract
The problems of diagnostics of the beginning of agrarian development of coniferous–broad-leaved forests in northwestern European Russia and its specificity regarding changes in the zonal forest cover and its anthropogenic modifications inherent in the forest and field-meadow landscape based on studying pollen spectra from key sections. It was established that the onset of the agrarian development of the forests in the region under consideration dates back to 2300–2600 cal years BP. Judging by the continuous presence of cultivated plant pollen in the diagrams, it becomes ubiquitous and irreversible after 1500 cal years BP. The corresponding indicators and plants are given. The presence of plant pollen grains in the diagrams makes it possible to establish the time and nature of agrogenic changes in the vegetation composition. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2021
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