Revealing of directed temporal changes in soils of short-term chronosequences upon the high spatial variability in the background soil properties

摘要

The properties of paleosols buried under the Filippovka group of kurgans in Orenburg oblast dating back to the second half of the fifth and to the fourth centuries BC were analyzed with the use of multivariate statistical methods. This made it possible to establish the relative chronology of construction of the kurgans, which was confirmed by the results of radiocarbon dating of the soil humus.