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> Early and Middle Neolithic settlement systems in North-Western Russia
This poster reports the use of GIS in a landscape archaeological study in the upper river basin of the Western Dvina. The region is situated at the watershed of three main rivers, the Volga, Dvina and Dnepr. This is the intersection of main water-ways and consequently of people and their cultures. The aim of our research is to to gain a broader historical perspective for the Neolithic period through GIS modeling and data analysis. This has helped us to reveal different types of Neolithic sites, to construct models of the economic activities of hunter-gatherers in the region, and to determine the appearance of new inhabitants occupying different portions of the landscape. We have tried to understand why people chose specific parts of of the landscape for settlement. In this research, GIS has allowed us to retrieve information about site placement and to investigate socio-environmental relationships. For example, topographic analysis of the placement of pile-dwellings, found at the border of lacustrine mires, has made clear that the majority of these were situated at the foot of the islands. We were also able to characterize the different groups of early Neolithic hunter-gatherer sites as seasonal sites, base camps, sites on the migration tracks and checkpoints. Furthermore, the use of GIS has revealed the density of sites and the zones of economical activity, which allowed us to interpret some sites as synchronous, to question theories of site appearance, and to better understand the prehistoric economic system.
e-mail: katjer@mail.ru
EARLY AND MIDDLE NEOLITHIC SETTLEMENT SYSTEMS IN NORTH-WESTERN RUSSIA
Katerina Dolbunova - co-organiser: Andrei MazurkevichThis poster reports the use of GIS in a landscape archaeological study in the upper river basin of the Western Dvina. The region is situated at the watershed of three main rivers, the Volga, Dvina and Dnepr. This is the intersection of main water-ways and consequently of people and their cultures. The aim of our research is to to gain a broader historical perspective for the Neolithic period through GIS modeling and data analysis. This has helped us to reveal different types of Neolithic sites, to construct models of the economic activities of hunter-gatherers in the region, and to determine the appearance of new inhabitants occupying different portions of the landscape. We have tried to understand why people chose specific parts of of the landscape for settlement. In this research, GIS has allowed us to retrieve information about site placement and to investigate socio-environmental relationships. For example, topographic analysis of the placement of pile-dwellings, found at the border of lacustrine mires, has made clear that the majority of these were situated at the foot of the islands. We were also able to characterize the different groups of early Neolithic hunter-gatherer sites as seasonal sites, base camps, sites on the migration tracks and checkpoints. Furthermore, the use of GIS has revealed the density of sites and the zones of economical activity, which allowed us to interpret some sites as synchronous, to question theories of site appearance, and to better understand the prehistoric economic system.
e-mail: katjer@mail.ru
