Soil Parameters for Quantitative Estimation of Late Holocene Climate Changes in the Southern East European Plain

Abstract

The results of studies of the regularities of evolution of soils and the environment in the steppe zone of the East European Plain are presented. Different culture-based chronological stages of the Bronze Age, Iron Age, and Middle Ages (3rd millennium BC–2nd millennium AD) are considered on the basis of buried soils at archeological monuments (burial mounds).