Agricultue in Southern Primorye in the I Millennium Bc   According to Archaeobotanical Data  From the Settlement of Cherepakha-13

Sergusheva, Elena A.; Moreva, Olga L.

doi:10.20874/2071-0437-2017-39-4-195-204

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“…It is suggested that when the Cherepakha 13 site was occupied by the YC population, the level of the Sea of Japan dropped, and this may have caused a decrease of marine resources (Razjigaeva et al 2017a). Archaeobotanical research at the Cherepakha 13 site (Sergusheva and Moreva 2017) allowed us to identify the seeds of two species of millet: broomcorn millet ( Panicum miliaceum ) and foxtail millet ( Setaria italica ) in the YC layer. It is clear that the bearers of the YC practiced agriculture based on domesticated millets which are C 4 plants.…”

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Paleodietary Patterns of the Cherepakha 13 Site Population (Early Iron Age) in Primorye (Maritime) Province, Russian Far East, based on Stable Isotope Analysis

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New paleodietary data were obtained after the discovery and excavation in 2015-2017 of the Cherepakha 13 site in the southern part of Primorye (Maritime) Province in far eastern Russia. The site is located near the coast of Ussuri Bay (Sea of Japan) and belongs to the Yankovsky cultural complex of the Early Iron Age 14 C-dated to ca. 3000 BP (ca. 1200 cal BC). The stable isotope composition of the bone collagen for 11 humans and 30 animals was determined. For humans, the following values (with ±1 sigma) were yielded: δ 13 C =-10.2 ± 0.8‰; and δ 15 N = +12.4 ± 0.3‰. The majority of terrestrial animals show the usual isotopic signals: δ 13 C =-19.4 ÷ -23.3‰; and δ 15 N = + 4.6 ÷ +6.6‰ (for wolves, up to +10.1‰); dogs, however, have an isotopic composition similar to humans: δ 13 C = -11.7 ± 1.2‰; and δ 15 N = +12.4 ± 0.4‰. Marine mammals have common values for pinnipeds: δ 13 C = -13.7 ÷ -14.6‰; and δ 15 N = +17.4 ÷ +18.0‰. The main food resources for the population of Cherepakha 13 site were (1) marine mollusks, fish, and mammals; and (2) terrestrial mammals; and possibly C 4 plants (domesticated millets).

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Paleodietary Patterns of the Cherepakha 13 Site Population (Early Iron Age) in Primorye (Maritime) Province, Russian Far East, based on Stable Isotope Analysis

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Late Pleistocene–Holocene environmental and cultural changes in Primorye, southern Russian Far East: A review

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The use of plants by the population of Primorye in the Early Paleometal period (according to the archaeobotanical and archeological data)

Sergusheva

2022

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The Early Paleometal period (second half of the 2nd millennium BC — end of the 1st millennium BC) is one of the least studied periods in the archeology of Primorye. There are not many studied and documented complexes. Their cultural chronology is still insufficiently developed. The identification of the archaeological cultures has not been completed and their subsistence systems have not become objects of research. The author makes an at-tempt to reconstruct the usage of plants by the populations of Primorye during this period. The research was based on the archaeobotanical analysis of plant seeds from the sites of this period, supplemented with the data on the finds of artifacts associated with agriculture. The data from 15 sites belonging to different cultures or groups of the Early Paleometal period were taken into account and analyzed. From 10 of them, the seeds were obtained with water flota-tion technique, which was not always carried out to a sufficient extent. In 5 sites, seeds were found on visual inspection (seeds accumulations, imprints on ceramics). Seeds of cultivated plants were found in all 15 sites. They were recovered from all flotation materials, even from small samples, which indicates the abundance of these remains in the sites’ de-posits. The species composition of the seeds demonstrates the ubiquitous presence and, therefore, cultivation of two species of millet (Panicum miliaceum, Setaria italica). This is a typical set of cultigens for Primorye, where both species are consistently present on archaeological sites, starting from the Late Neolithic and in the following peri-ods. Materials of Novoselische-4 and Anuchino-14 sites, where only P. miliaceum was found, look atypical. After the middle of the 1st millennium BC, naked barley was also found on some sites. The paucity of the data does not allow reliable reconstruction of the role of agriculture in the economy of the Early Paleometal population of Primorye. However, the presence of the cultivated plants on all the sites where the water flotation was used demonstrates their ubiquity, including the coastal settlements whose population’s economy was mainly based on marine resources. This clearly indicates an increase of a role of agriculture in this period. The lack of special studies of the functions of such artifacts as hoes, grinding slabs and grindstones, traditionally referred to as agricultural, makes us consider with reserve their interpretation as exclusively agricultural. Obviously, they represent tools with complex functions. Specialized agri-cultural tools are represented by reaping knives. In Primorye, they appear in the Early Paleometal period. Their pres-ence on the sites is regarded as evidence of the existence of agriculture. However, their absence does not imply the opposite. The archaeobotanical data from the sites of the Early Paleometal period confirmed the existence of wild plants gathering amongst the population engaged in agriculture. The remains of 8 plant species, which were found on all the sites where the water floatation was employed, have been identified.

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Agricultue in Southern Primorye in the I Millennium Bc According to Archaeobotanical Data From the Settlement of Cherepakha-13

Cited by 4 publications

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Paleodietary Patterns of the Cherepakha 13 Site Population (Early Iron Age) in Primorye (Maritime) Province, Russian Far East, based on Stable Isotope Analysis

Paleodietary Patterns of the Cherepakha 13 Site Population (Early Iron Age) in Primorye (Maritime) Province, Russian Far East, based on Stable Isotope Analysis

Late Pleistocene–Holocene environmental and cultural changes in Primorye, southern Russian Far East: A review

The use of plants by the population of Primorye in the Early Paleometal period (according to the archaeobotanical and archeological data)

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