Vol. 11, No. 1, 87-97, 2012

Bronze age economies and landscape resources in the Kargaly steppe (Orenburg, Russia). Remote sensing and palynological data for ancient landscape resources modelling
Carlos Fernández Freire, Antonio Uriarte González, Juan Manuel Vicent García, and Ma Isabel Martínez Navarrete

Abstract
We present the methodological and technical issues of a research on ancient vegetation modelling in the Russian steppes combining remote sensing and palynological data. This research is framed in an international project developed by Russian and Spanish archaeologists from the Russian Academy of Sciences and the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC) and centred on the study of the Bronze Age mining complex of Kargaly (Orenburg, Russia).

One of the research guidelines focused on potential landscape resources for copper metallurgy and subsistence activities, such as the availability of wood fuel or pasture and arable land. A palaeobotanical research has been carried out in order to explore such questions, including the use of remote sensing data for providing environmental calibrative criteria that help interpreting palynological data. Combining current pollen rain data and remote sensing products (obtained by digital processing of Landsat and ASTER imagery), we have developed a model to improve our understanding of the paleopalynological record.

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History
Submitted: 1 September 2011
Revised: 14 June 2012
Accepted: 15 June 2012
Published: 19 June 2012
Responsible editor: Rainer Reuter

Citation
Fernández Freire C, A Uriarte González, J M Vicent García & M I Martinez Navarrete, 2012. Bronze age economies and landscape resources in the Kargaly steppe (Orenburg, Russia). Remote sensing and palynological data for ancient landscape resources modelling. EARSeL eProceedings, 11(1): 87-97

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