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New data on the study of off-sites of prehistoric and medieval settlements in the Kislovodsk Basin
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New data on the study of off-sites of prehistoric and medieval settlements in the Kislovodsk Basin
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S086960630008885-2-
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10.31857/S086960630008885-2
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Authors
Dmitry S. Korobov 
Affiliation: Institute of Archaeology RAS
Address: Russian Federation, Moscow, Dm. Uljanova str., 19
Aleksandr V. Borisov
ORCID: 0000-0001-5031-7477
Affiliation: Institute of Physicochemical and Biological Problems of Soil Science RAS
Address: Московская обл., г. Пущино. ул.Институтская д.2
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Issue 4
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53-69
Abstract

Studying off-sites related to settlements of different periods and cultures (off-site archaeology) has become quite common practice in foreign (mainly British and Dutch) archaeology since the 1980s. The approaches and methods used were adapted and developed by the authors during the long-term study of traces of agricultural activities in the Kislovodsk Basin. The present paper discusses the development of this research at a more detailed level. New results on modeling the active zones of ancient and medieval agriculture were obtained during a systematic survey of the surroundings of the early medieval fortification Podkumskoye 3, where 99 soil sections were made following the regular network at 50 m intervals. The geostatistical analysis of the distribution of various agricultural development indicators across the territory (pottery finds, analysis of urease activity, phosphate content, abundance of thermophilic microorganisms, and magnetic susceptibility) revealed zones of differing in the intensity of agricultural development in the Koban and Alan periods. The comprehensive study at the off-sites of the multi-period settlements of the Kislovodsk Basin conducted by the research team has no analogues in Russian and foreign landscape archaeology in terms of its detail and can be considered a new direction in studying of agricultural periphery in prehistory and the Middle Ages.

Keywords
landscape archaeology, off-site archaeology, the Early Middle Ages, the North Caucasus, geostatistical analysis, archaeological soil science
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This work was carried out as part of the RFBR project No. 18-09-00615a.
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20.03.2020
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21.12.2020
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