The soils buried under the early medieval mounds of the 9th and early 11th centuries AD were studied. The reconstruction of environmental trendу and their influence on soils was carried out on the basis of a comparative analysis of the properties of soils buried under mounds of different ages, surface soils, and newly formed soil on mound structures supplemented with data on the time of soil formation on sandy parent rocks in the taiga zone. The study area belongs to the Baltic province of soddy-podzolic soils of the southern taiga subzone. Soils buried under mound structures characterize periods with different climatic conditions. Soils that developed before burial in the cool and humid climate of the 8th–9th centuries AD are specified by the mobility of iron compounds in the profile and a morphologically pronounced accumulation of bleached quartz grains in its upper part. The influence of relatively warm and dry climate of the 10th century AD on the processes of soil formation is manifested in the lower mobility of iron compounds, more active humus accumulation, and less pronounced bleaching of mineral grains
Translated title of the contributionПедохронологические ряды в средневековых курганах Псковской области
Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)166–175
Number of pages10
JournalEurasian Soil Science
Volume57
Issue number1
DOIs
StatePublished - 2024

    Research areas

  • archaeological soil science, buried soils, environmental dynamics, mesomorphology, northwest of the Russian Plain, soddy podburs, soil chronosequence

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