Journal
HOLOCENE
Volume 23, Issue 4, Pages 504-514Publisher
SAGE PUBLICATIONS LTD
DOI: 10.1177/0959683612463098
Keywords
ancient Greek land use; Chersonesos; cinnamonic soils; Crimea; long-fallow soils; old cultivated soils; soil evolution
Funding
- Danish Council for Independent Research \ Humanities [09-069235]
- Belgorod State National Research University, Russia
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The paper examines the regularities of the post-agrogenic evolution of soils of differing age in the Herakleian Peninsula (southwestern Crimea, Ukraine), which developed under conditions of the sub-Mediterranean climate and have been cultivated since ancient times. Whether developed under steppe or sub-Mediterranean forest vegetation, the Crimean cinnamonic soils display different physico-chemical and geochemical characteristics after 1600 years under no cultivation. It is demonstrated that among 40 examined physico-chemical and geochemical soil characteristics, only ten are sufficiently informative to diagnose the post-agrogenic regime of a soil system. In the geographic and pedogenetic grouping of post-antique long-fallow soils, labile phosphorus content and the hue of soil colour prove to be of primary importance.
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