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A forest-steppe landscape and the settlement Ksizovo-1 in the Don region during the Middle Bronze Age
ID Kaiser, Elke (Author), ID Gak, Evgenii (Author), ID Antipina, Ekaterina (Author), ID Gerling, Claudia (Author), ID Huber, Barbara (Author), ID Ivashov, Maxim V. (Author), ID Lebedeva, Elena (Author), ID Öğüt, Birgül (Author), ID Eger, Jana (Author)

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Abstract
Systematic investigations of Bronze Age settlements in different regions of western Eurasia have provided new insights into settlement structures, land use, and past mobile lifestyles. In this paper, we examine the single-layered site of Ksizovo-1 in the Upper Don basin, located in a microregion of the Eastern European forest-steppe. We integrate archaeological, bioarchaeological, and molecular investigations to evaluate if the Middle Bronze Age settlement was a short-lived seasonal site inhabited by a community of mobile pastoralists with distinct land use and economic strategies. Combining the results of the excavations and radiocarbon dating, as well as archaeobotanical, archaeozoological, isotopic, phytolith and organic residue analyses, allows for a more holistic understanding of the character of this site and its environmental and economic contexts. While various features and artefacts were recovered, no remains of architecture or dwellings were found during the excavations, suggesting that the site may have functioned as a temporary camp. The bioarchaeological and molecular data indicate that the community relied primarily on pastoralism, keeping herd animals for meat (mainly cattle), with some reliance on wild animals (e.g., wild pig, bear, and elk), and wild plant resources (e.g., wild fruits and nuts), indicating the wider exploitation of the forest-steppe landscape surrounding the site.

Language:English
Keywords:pastoral land use, landscape archaeology, bioarchaeology, molecular analyses, Catacomb culture
Work type:Article
Typology:1.01 - Original Scientific Article
Organization:FF - Faculty of Arts
Publication status:Published
Publication version:Version of Record
Year:2025
Number of pages:Str. 270-296
Numbering:Vol. 52
PID:20.500.12556/RUL-180576 This link opens in a new window
ISSN on article:1854-2492
DOI:10.4312/dp.52.7 This link opens in a new window
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Publication date in RUL:11.03.2026
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Title:Documenta Praehistorica
Shortened title:Doc. Praehistor.
Publisher:Založba Univerze v Ljubljani
ISSN:1854-2492
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Language:Slovenian
Title:Gozdno-stepska pokrajina in naselbina Ksizovo-1 na Donu v srednji bronasti dobi
Abstract:
Sistematične raziskave naselbin iz bronaste dobe v različnih regijah zahodne Evrazije omogočajo nove poglede na pretekle poselitvene strukture, izrabo prostora in mobilne načine življenja. V prispevku preučujemo enoslojno najdišče Ksizovo-1 v porečju zgornjega Dona v vzhodnoevropski gozdni stepi. Povezujemo arheološke, bioarheološke in molekularne raziskave, da bi ocenili, ali je bila naselbina srednje bronaste dobe kratkotrajno sezonsko naselje mobilnih pastirjev s prilagojeno rabo prostora in posebnimi ekonomskimi strategijami. Povezani rezultati izkopavanj in radiokarbonskega datiranja ter arheobotaničnih, arheozooloških, izotopskih analiz, analiz fitolitov in organskih ostankov omogočajo celovito razumevanje najdišča in njegovih okoljskih in gospodarskih kontekstov. Med izkopavanji niso našli ostankov arhitekture ali bivališč, odkrite pa so bile različne strukture in vrsta artefaktov, zato je bilo najdišče morda občasni tabor. Bioarheološki in molekularni podatki kažejo, da je gospodarstvo skupnosti temeljilo na pašništvu in reji goveda za mesno gospodarstvo. Včasih so vključili tudi divje živali (npr. divje prašiče, medvede in lose) ter divje rastline (npr. divje sadje in oreščke) in tako izkoristili tudi gozdno stepo v okolici.

Keywords:pašna izraba prostora, prostorska arheologija, bioarheologija, molekularne analize, kultura katakomb

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Funder:DFG - German Research Foundation
Project number:KA 2266-4

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