Фитолитные исследования археологического поселения раннего железного века "Новоильинка-IV" (Северная Кулунда)

Abstract

This article provides the results of phytoliths studies ofthe soil profile on the territory of archaeological site Novoilinka-IV.The object of research is located in Khabarsky District of the Altai region, on the left bank of the river, on the edge of a birch wood. The problem statement of the paleoecology investigation of the Iron Age in the North Kulundais incomplete. The research was based on the A.A. Gol’eva’s classification, eco-coenotic research approach and study of phytoliths in modern plants on the territory of the south-western Siberia. Diagnostic of the phytolits forms were isolated from the soil and described. For example: grasses (trapeziform short cells, trapeziformpolylobates, trapeziform sinuates, rondels, saddles, trichomes, bilobate short cells, bulliform cells) and conifers phytolites (blocky polyhedron transfusion cells).The basic indicators of the steppe conditions were the trapeziform short cells, rondels, saddles, trapeziform sinuates. The basic indicators of the meadow and forest plant communities were trapeziformpolylobates, trichomes and sometimes long cells.The vegetationon the investigated local area was differedfrom the modernand a little from the early Iron Age. More mesophytic plant communities have been reconstructed, perhaps birch forest. The steppe meadow plant communityis located on the local area in the modern period. The phytoliths of wetlands are present in the soil profile in a small amount. Thus, the research territory upward the Iron Ageis becoming more steppificated.

Представлены результаты изучения фитолитного анализа почвенного покрова древнего поселения Новоильинка-4.