title: The landscape indication of archaeological sites in the environs of the Ortolyk River (Altai)
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metadata.value: Glebova, Anastasia B.
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metadata.value: Sergeev, Igor S.
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metadata.value: 2019-12-09T10:32:34Z
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metadata.value: 2019-12-09T10:32:34Z
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metadata.value: 2019-09
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metadata.value: Glebova, A. B., Sergeev, I. S. (2019). The landscape indication of archaeological sites in the environs of the Ortolyk River (Altai). Vestnik of Saint Petersburg University. Earth Sciences, 64 (3), 403–420.
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metadata.value: https://doi.org/10.21638/spbu07.2019.302
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metadata.value: http://hdl.handle.net/11701/16755
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metadata.value: This paper concentrates on the analysis of the landscape location of archaeological sites in the Ortolyk River Valley. The studied region is located in southeastern Altai between the Kurai and North-Chuisky ridges, northwest of the village of Kurai. The location scheme of archaeological sites and the landscape map were created for the historical archaeological and landscape analysis conducted in the format of ArcGIS 10.1. GIS-cartography of archaeological sites in the field was carried out with the help of a GPS navigator. During the field study the coordinates of 174 archaeological sites were determined, conceivably 78 % of which belong to the Scythian period, 5 % to the Turkic period, and 17 % were difficult to date. The majority of the monuments are stone burial mounds, memorial structures, balbals, etc. The archaeological sites were found at altitudes of 1590 to 1710 meters. Landscape maps are based on field research, a digital elevation model (DEM), high-resolution satellite images, geomorphological maps (scale 1:200,000), maps of quaternary sediments (scale 1:200,000) and topographic maps (scale 1 : 50 000). The largest area, 42 %, is covered with low gradient slopes (3° to 10°), mountain ranges of southern exposure, composed of ancient lake deposits and diluvial deposits with wormwood — low — bunchgrass steppes, low-bunchgrass steppes, sometimes feather grass — low — bunchgrass — wormwood steppes on chestnut soil. GIS-cartography of the archaeological sites shows that for their construction ancient people purposefully chose level surfaces or gentle slopes with open dry steppe landscapes (wormwood — low — bunchgrass steppe and low-bunchgrass steppe). These landscapes were good grazing lands in the Scythian and Turkic periods. Now, the local population uses them for grazing livestock: cows, horses, sheep, and goats. The visibility of the snowy mountaintops played an important role in the selection of the location for construction sites. In the studied area, the panorama of North- Chuisky ridge with its snow-capped peaks is clearly visible.
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metadata.value: The study was supported by RFBR grant projects: № 18-05-00998 «Holocene morpholitogenesis of high-mountain valleys in the Southeastern Altai: studying of a complex of various natural archives on the basis of absolute dating»; № 19-05-00535 «Natural catastrophes and transformation of the landscapes of the southeastern Altai and northwestern Mongolia in the period from the maximum of the last glaciation»; № 17-33-01159-ОГН «Delimitation of the geo-cultural space and cultural-geographical zoning of the Altai- Sayan mountain region».
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metadata.value: ru
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metadata.value: St Petersburg State University
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metadata.value: Vestnik of St Petersburg University. Earth Sciences;Volume 64; Issue 3
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: landscape
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metadata.value: landscape map
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metadata.value: the archaeological sites
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metadata.value: valley of the river Ortolyk
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metadata.value: South-Eastern Altai
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metadata.value: The landscape indication of archaeological sites in the environs of the Ortolyk River (Altai)
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