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Microclimate and Dry Years Interfere With Landscape Structure Effects on Intraspecific Trait Variation. [PDF]
Ecol EvolWe tested the relative effect of landscape structure, microclimate and between‐year fluctuation in weather conditions on intraspecific plant trait variation in 13 populations of a dry grassland specialist plant. We found that a strong heat load gradient modulated by temporal fluctuations in weather conditions were dominant drivers of trait variation ...
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Anadolu Araştırmaları, 2022 Apart from some controversial ones, kurgans are a model of grave architecture frequently used by ancient Eurasian societies in the steppes, with the oldest-known examples of kurgans dating back to the third millennium BC.
Okan Sezer
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Asya Studies, 2020 Berel Kurgans are located in the Berel Valley on the western slope of the Altai Mountains, Eastern Kazakhstan Province of the Republic of Kazakhstan. Berel is the cemetery where kurgans of the mid İron Age Scythian/Saka communities of the Altay Mountains referred in archaeology as the Pazyryk culture had been identified.
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Burials of Pazyryk Culture: Social Differentiations
Oriental Studies, 2020 Introduction. Specialists dealing with the Pazyryk culture keep posing questions about its social structure. Traditionally, scholars ― with due account of outer parameters of kurgans, depths and areas of graves, numbers of buried horses, quantities and
Maria A. Ochir-Goryaeva
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Typology and Cultural-Chronological Interpretation of Kurgans with ‘Moustache’
Поволжская археология, 2020 The paper addresses the typology and a debatable issue of the chronology of kurgans with ‘moustache’ in the Ural-Kazakhstan steppes. Several concepts were proposed over the period from 1966–2017 reflecting the different viewpoint of researchers on these ...
Grudochko Ivan V.
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Golden Horde Burials with Silk Items: Problems of Interpretation
Oriental Studies, 2021 Introduction. The Golden Horde epoch in the East European steppe was marked, among other things, by the emergence of urban culture in the region. The urban centers and, first of all, the Golden Horde capital in the Lower Volga were the seats of the ...
Maria A. Ochir-Goryaeva +1 more
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A 1st Millennium BCE Burial-Deprived Ritual Practice: New Evidences from Shahliq Kurgan, Northwestern Iran [PDF]
Iranian Journal of Archaeological Studies, 2021 Until now, the well-known Kurgans in northwestern Iran were associated with burial mounds containing burial pits;however, discoveries in 2018 revealed mounds lacking human burials indicating still unknown rituals and ceremonies.Shahliq Kurgan, 178 km ...
Nasrin Ghahremani +2 more
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Global Ecology and Conservation, 2021 Habitat fragmentation is considered one of the most severe threatening factors for global biodiversity. Here we assessed, how local and landscape scale environmental variables, such as fragment size (small vs. large) and landscape configuration (measured
Fabio Marcolin +3 more
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Analecta Technica Szegedinensia, 2016 The burial mounds, living mounds, guarding and border mounds (group name is “kurgan”) have been under environmental protection in Hungary since 1996. Besides the fact that they are important elements from archeological point of view, in many cases they reserve valuable remaining parts of onetime steppes, and studying of their buried soils can provide ...
Attila Barczi, Valéria Nagy
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Landscape-scale connectivity and fragment size determine species composition of grassland fragments
Basic and Applied Ecology, 2022 As a consequence of agricultural intensification and habitat fragmentation since the mid-20th century, biological diversity has declined considerably throughout the world, particularly in Europe. We assessed how habitat and landscape-scale heterogeneity,
Róbert Gallé +13 more
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