Project:

Agricultural Prelude in Russian Forests

From July 2001
Project Leader(s): P. Dolukhanov
Staff: Prof. Shukurov (Newcastle); Dr Zaitseva (St. Petersburg); Prof. Arslanov (St. Petersburg); Mr. Mazurkevich (St. Petersburg); Dr. D. Gronenborn (Germany).
Sponsors: INTAS
Partners: School of Mathematics & Statistics, Univ. Newcastle; Inst. Hist. Mat. Culture, Russian Academy of Sciences (St. Petersburg); University of St. Petersburg (Russia); The Hermitage Museum (St. Petersburg, Russia); Romisch-Germanisches Zentralmuseum (Germany)

Identification of major environmental changes that occurred in the lake district of North-Western Russia over the last 8 thousand years and their effect on early human settlement and subsistence with an emphasis on early forms of farming. International project based on multidisciplinary study of archaeological and environmental sites.

Agricultural Prelude in Russian Forests