Reconstruction of the Paleoclimate Within the Boundaries of an Ancient Settlement Near the Korobchyne Village in the Kirovohrad Region (Paleopedological Aspect)

Climate is the main factor determining the change of paleolandscapes and their components. When studying the climates of the historical past beyond the period of instrumental observations, secondary climate indicators, chronicles, other literary sources and testimonies, monuments of material culture, etc. can be used. The methodological techniques of paleogeography are based on the studied monuments of ancient nature, which can be indicators of the paleoclimate and give certain indicators of it. Geomorphological, lithological, paleopedological, archaeological and other data are important for climate analysis. An important and fundamental problem in paleogeography today is the study of modern and ancient soils with the help of soil-archaeological approaches (macro- and micromorphological, geoarchaeological or chrono-series methods), which are now increasingly used to reconstruct the natural conditions of ancient human habitation in key areas within geological or archaeological objects. Research of ancient and modern soils within the ancient settlement near the village Korobchyne in Kirovohrad Region using paleopedological and micromorphological methods combined with a geoarchaeological approach to establish trends in soil development and climatic changes over time is extremely relevant for the evolution of soils in their relationship with the geographic environment. In the process of researching an ancient settlement near the Korobchynе village, we found out that the conditions of human existence in Vytachev's time were more acceptable, which is evident from the nature of the sediments and soils. This section corresponds to the situation when man developed watersheds and high terraces under warmer climatic conditions. In conditions of cooling of the climate (we studied earlier in this area the sections and layers of flints within the settlements near the villages of Troyanovе and Shmidovе), people settled in depressions, closer to water bodies, where vegetation was richer than on watersheds. So, the change in climatic conditions affected the change in the niches occupied by ancient man.