Anthropogenic sediments and soils of tells of the Balkans and Anatolia: Composition, genesis, and relationships with the history of landscape and human occupation

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dc.contributor.authorSedov, S. N.
dc.contributor.authorAleksandrovskii, A. L.
dc.contributor.authorBenz, M.
dc.contributor.authorBalabina, V. I.
dc.contributor.authorMishina, T. N.
dc.contributor.authorShishkov, V. A.
dc.contributor.authorAahin, F.
dc.date.accessioned2024-04-24T17:11:54Z
dc.date.available2024-04-24T17:11:54Z
dc.date.issued2017
dc.departmentDicle Üniversitesien_US
dc.description.abstractSoils and sediments composing Tell Kortik Tepe (Epipaleolithic, Turkey) and Tell Yunatsite (Chalcolithic (Eneolithic), Bulgaria) have been studied with the aim to gain a better insight into their microfabrics, determine the composition of anthropogenic artifacts, and, on this basis, to analyze similarities and distinctions between these objects and the modern soils of urban areas. The methods of micromorphology, scanning electron microscopy with an energy dispersive X-ray microanalyzer, X-ray fluorometry, and other techniques to determine the chemical and physical properties of the soils and sediments have been applied. Two paleosols have been identified in Tell Yunatsite with a total thickness of 9 m: the paleosol buried under the tell and the paleosol in its middle part. Sediments of Tell Kortik Tepe have a total thickness of up to 5 m; their accumulation began at the end of Pleistocene over the surface of buried paleosol. The cultural layer of the tells consists of construction debris mainly represented by a mixture of clay and sand and of domestic wastes with the high content of phosphorus. The major source of phosphorus is calcium phosphate (apatite) of bone tissues. The abundance of various anthropogenic materials in the sediments is clearly seen in thin sections. Even in the paleosols developed within the cultural layer (the mid-profile paleosol in Tell Yunatsite), the amount of microinclusions of bone fragments, charcoal, and burnt clay (ceramics) is very high. Micromorphological data indicate that up to 50% of the layered material filling an Epipaleolithic construction in Tell Kortik Tepe consists of the anthropogenic inclusions: bone fragments, charcoal, etc. The features of pedogenic transformation are present in the sediments. Such sediments can be classified as synlithogenic soils similar to the modern Urbic Technosols. It is shown that the formation of paleosols and sediments of Tell Kortik Tepe took place under extreme environmental conditions-arid climate of the latest Pleistocene climate cooling phase (the Younger Dryas, Tell Kortik Tepe)-and intensive anthropogenic loads (tells Kortik Tepe and Yunatsite).en_US
dc.description.sponsorshipGerman Research Foundation [BE 4218/2-2]; Russian Science Foundation [14-27-00133]en_US
dc.description.sponsorshipField studies of Tell Kortik Tepe were supported by the German Research Foundation (grant BE 4218/2-2) and would have been impossible without kind permission of Dr. Vecihi Ozkaya to participate in his excavation. Soil studies were supported by the Russian Science Foundation, project no. 14-27-00133.en_US
dc.identifier.doi10.1134/S1064229317040093
dc.identifier.endpage386en_US
dc.identifier.issn1064-2293
dc.identifier.issn1556-195X
dc.identifier.issue4en_US
dc.identifier.scopus2-s2.0-85018323673
dc.identifier.scopusqualityQ2
dc.identifier.startpage373en_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://doi.org/10.1134/S1064229317040093
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/11468/17773
dc.identifier.volume50en_US
dc.identifier.wosWOS:000400358700001
dc.identifier.wosqualityQ4
dc.indekslendigikaynakWeb of Science
dc.indekslendigikaynakScopus
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherPleiades Publishing Incen_US
dc.relation.ispartofEurasian Soil Science
dc.relation.publicationcategoryMakale - Uluslararası Hakemli Dergi - Kurum Öğretim Elemanıen_US
dc.rightsinfo:eu-repo/semantics/closedAccessen_US
dc.subjectUrban Sedimentsen_US
dc.subjectUrban Soilsen_US
dc.subjectUrbanozemsen_US
dc.subjectUrbic Technosolsen_US
dc.subjectSoils Of Extreme Anthropogenic Sitesen_US
dc.subjectBuried Soilsen_US
dc.subjectPedolithogenesisen_US
dc.titleAnthropogenic sediments and soils of tells of the Balkans and Anatolia: Composition, genesis, and relationships with the history of landscape and human occupationen_US
dc.titleAnthropogenic sediments and soils of tells of the Balkans and Anatolia: Composition, genesis, and relationships with the history of landscape and human occupation
dc.typeArticleen_US

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