SOIL FORMATION AT STARAYA LADOGA IN THE NEOLITHIC AND EARLY MEDIEVAL TIME
The paper tracks the history of formation of buried soils at Staraya Ladoga from the Neolithic through the appearance of the Ladoga settlement in the middle of the VIII c. AD. The traces of ploughing recorded in buried soils indicate that the terrace of the Volkhov river might have been developed not only during the Neolithic, but also in the third quarter of the I millennium AD, prior to the emergence of the Early Medieval settlement.