Objective
The Great Eurasiatic Plain must be considered an excellent field for the study of prehistoric Man and his relationship with the evolution of the environment and climate during the Upper Pleistocene. This project is part of a broader research project which will run over a period of four years. Field research and laboratory work will be carried out for a set of Palaeolithic key sites of the Eurasiatic Plain, mainly Cossautsi in Moldova, Kostienki and Avdeevo in central Russia, Kurtac and Afontana Gora in central Siberia, and Karamaidan in Tadjikistan.
The aim of the project is the study of selected Paleolithic sites of the Eurasiatic continent in combining archeology with natural sciences. Conventions for co-operation have already been signed by several institutions from the NIS in order to have access to and to work in close collaboration with local scientists on selected archaeological key sites connected with well documented sedimentary sequences in Moldova, Russia and Tadjikistan.
Field work will consist of stratigraphic study and sampling of reference sedimentary sequences directly related with main cultural layers. This project will establish a geotraverse of the Eurasiatic continent, from the Atlantic Ocean to Eastern Siberia. This geotraverse will form the basis of a detailed reconstruction of climatic and environmental changes during the Upper Pleistocene.
The project will form part of a broader concept directly related to global change and will bring out a better understanding of the dynamics of the enormous climatic upset which has affected our planet during the last 150,000 years. Such an understanding is of vital importance for the management of the present day climatic transient.
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