Agriculture in the Forest-Steppe Region of Khazaria

Volodymyr Koloda, Ph.D. (1996), (Karazin University) is Associate Professor at the National Pedagogical University, Kharkiv. He has written or co-written four books on agriculture and ferrous metallurgy in early medieval period southeastern Europe.Serhiy Gorbanenko, Ph.D. (2005), (Karazin University) is senior researcher at the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine. He is the author and co-author of nine books on agriculture and craft in southeastern Europe from the Scythians to the Rus.

"The authors of this book, Volodymyr Koloda and Serhiy Gorbanenko, are scholars well known in academic circles. Their joint efforts bring together expertise in various fields such as archaeology (Koloda) and paleobotanics, archaeozoology, soil science, and paleoclimatology (Gorbanenko), resulting in a modern, multidisciplinary study that combines approaches from the humanities and natural sciences.[...]Koloda and Gorbanenko have made a significant contribution to the study of a very important part of Khazaria’s economy". Tsvetelin Stepanov in The Russian Review, 2021

• AcknowledgementsList of IllustrationsIntroduction1 Historiography and History of Research1 The Research Area and Its Ethnic and Cultural Characteristics2 History of Research in the Region3 Research of Basic Sites2 Methods of Interpreting the Agricultural Material1 General Analysis of Agriculture3 Natural Conditions and Resettlement Areas1 Natural Conditions2 Settlements4 Arable Farming1 Tools for Primary Soil Tillage with the Use of Draft Animals2 Auxiliary Tools for Soil Tillage3 Palaeobotanical Data4 Tools for Harvesting5 Crop Storing6 Crop Processing5 Animal Husbandry1 Animal Bones2 Tools for Animal Husbandry3 Livestock Maintenance6 The Khazars and their Neighbors: a Comparative Analysis, in Lieu of Conclusions1 Zones around Settlements2 Arable Farming3 Animal Husbandry