- PII
- S0869-60630000483-4-1
- DOI
- 10.7868/S30000483-4-1
- Publication type
- Article
- Status
- Published
- Authors
- Volume/ Edition
- Volume / Issue 3
- Pages
- 50-62
- Abstract
- The investigations conducted by the authors in the Kislovodsk basin in 2005–2010 have shown that in the 1 st millennium AD the Alanic population used two types of agricultural plots: long narrow ploughable terraces on smooth slopes and small rectangular or square plots with low stone walls as boundaries (types 2 and 3 of agricultural plots in the Kislovodsk basin). Analogies of such agricultural plots can be found in Europe (socalled lynchets and Celtic fields). The authors are of the opinion that the first type of agricultural plot could have existed in the first half of the 1 st millennium AD or in the 10 th–12 th cc., and the second – in the 5 th–8 th cc. Instead of being an indicator of regression, the fact that in the middle of the 1 st millennium AD the tools used for tillage became more primitive and the technologies of land farming became simpler appears to indicate how the population adapted to the new landscape.
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- Date of publication
- 01.07.2012
- Year of publication
- 2012
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- 1
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