Genetic study of the wider Caucasus region shows how movement of people and innovation transfer enabled pastoralists to exploit the steppe zones of Eurasia Date: October 30, 2024 ...

The wider Caucasus region, between the Black and the Caspian Seas, connects Europe, the Near East and Asia. It displays a huge geographic, ecological, economic, cultural, and linguistic range today, ...

Triggered by a period of aridification and possibly over-exploitation of the ecologically fragile steppe environment and unreliable levels of precipitation, the steppe zone became largely depopulated.

The Scythians, pastoral nomads who roamed the Central Eurasian steppe zone from around the eighth century B.C., are traditionally dismissed as uncouth predators whose legacy was negative, ...

Here, the region around Odesa is considered an archaeological ‘melting pot’ between 6500 and 5200 years ago, with various influences from the outgoing Copper Age cultures, the northwestern ...

Wadi Jilat is a tributary of the Wadi ed-Dabi (Dhobai), which drains through the south-western sector of the Azraq Basin and cuts through a transitional zone between steppe and desert.“The area ...

After expanding beyond its forest zone home, Tsarist Russia declared itself the Russian Empire in 1721 during the reign of Peter the Great (1682-1725), but it took the rest of the century for it ...

After the war, large expanses of land, primarily in the steppe zone, will be unusable or temporarily unfit for life or any activity. All we can do with them is give them back to nature. And in this ...