On July 6-9, 2012, Severobaikalsk hosted an international seminar on the impact of humans and domestic animals on the surrounding vegetation. The seminar was organized within the framework of the international project "Rangifer Domus", headed by Professor D. J. Anderson of the University of Aberdeen (Great Britain). The project aims to exchange scientific methods between researchers in Scandinavia and scientists from other countries. The sponsor is the NordForsk Science Foundation (Research Council of the Nordic Council of Ministers).

In the Scandinavian countries, work has been carried out for several decades to identify plant communities associated with human and domestic animal activities. Traces of such communities in the form of complexes of spores, pollen, and other palynomorphs are found in sediments of different origins. It is known that depending on the type of farm, the population has a different impact on the surrounding landscape. For example, the set of plants in the areas where Norwegians lived in the XVII-XVIII centuries differs from the plant communities in the Sami habitats. Elucidation of possible mechanisms of human and animal impact on vegetation and the reasons that cause the settlement of disturbed territories by various plant communities will also be one of the important research tasks in the framework of the international project "Rangifer Domus".

The workshop was attended by scientists from the UK, Norway, Russia, Sweden and Finland. Presentations were made by archaeologists, botanists, palynologists and ethnographers. A fruitful exchange of views on the methodology of palynological research took place.

Severobaikalsk was not accidentally chosen to host a seminar on the Rangifer Domus project. It is known that the inhabitants of the Northern Baikal region have been engaged in reindeer husbandry since at least the 18th century, and this type of activity among the local population most likely existed from an even earlier time. The seminar participants went to the place where the Evenk reindeer herders ' camp was located in the 19th and mid-20th centuries. The scientists drew attention to the heterogeneity of plant communities in different parts of the parking lot. At the site located near the place where the deer were kept, a core sample was taken from soil deposits, which will be analyzed according to the methods used in Russia (Institute of the Earth's Crust, Institute of Geochemistry, Irkutsk) and Great Britain (University of Aberdeen).

During their presentations and visits to the key site, the workshop participants discussed methodological and technical approaches to sampling for palynological analysis in areas with permafrost development. In particular, an agreement was reached on choosing the optimal distance between the object of research (human and animal parking) and the place where the sequence of loose (soil or peat) soils should be studied. deposits. Based on the results of palynological analysis of these deposits, the nature of undisturbed vegetation will then be reconstructed, its composition determined before the site appeared, and the latter will be dated. The seminar discussed the problems of palynological research of soil profiles in comparison with peat profiles. The identification of new species of coprophilic fungi spores, which are bright markers of animal husbandry, was particularly interesting. The participants of the workshop decided to create a bank of palynological data, which will include both the existing ones and those that are planned to be obtained during the project implementation.

List of participants

Avramenko V. N., Irkutsk State Technical University Anderson D. J., University of Aberdeen, United Kingdom

Aronsson K.-A., Ajtte Museum of Sami Culture, Jokkmokk, Sweden

Bezrukova E. V., Irkutsk Laboratory of Archeology and Paleoecology, Institute of Archeology and Ethnography, Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences

Vinkovskaya O. P., Irkutsk State Agricultural Academy

Ineshin E. M., Irkutsk State Technical University

Kamerling I. M., University of Aberdeen, United Kingdom

Kulagina N. V., Institute of the Earth's Crust SB RAS, Irkutsk

Lapteva E. G., Institute of Plant and Animal Ecology, Ural Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Yekaterinburg

P. P. Letunova, Irkutsk Laboratory of Archeology and Paleoecology, Institute of Archeology and Ethnography, Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences

Reshetova S. A., Institute of Natural Resources, Ecology and Cryology SB RAS, Chita

Rudaya N. A., Institute of Archeology and Ethnography SB RAS, Novosibirsk

Ryabogina N. E., Institute of Problems of Development of the North SB RAS, Tyumen

A. V. Kharinsky, Irkutsk State Technical University

Heikkila H. I., University of Oulu, Finland

D. J. Anderson

University of Aberdeen, United Kingdom

School of Social Sciences, University ofAberdin, Aberdin, AB24 4QY, Scotland, United Kingdom

E-mail: david.anderson@abdn.ac. uk

E. V. Bezrukova

Irkutsk Laboratory of Archeology and Paleoecology of the Institute of Archeology and Ethnography SB RAS

1A Favorskogo str., Irkutsk, 664033, Russia

E-mail: bezrukova@igc.irk.ru

A. V. Kharinsky

Irkutsk State Technical University

83 Lermontov Str., Irkutsk, 664074, Russia

E-mail: kharinsky@istu.edu

The article was submitted to the Editorial Board on 17.08.12.

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