Ershova E.G.
Key words: Bronze Age, history of vegetation, paleoecology, buried soils, Holocene.

By the beginning of colonization the Moskva-river valley by the Corded Ware tribes floodplain vegetation has changed dramatically compared to the previous stage because of the climate change. The pollen data shows that from the beginning of Subboreal the floodplain of the Moskva-river was occupied with mixed coniferous-deciduous forests dominated by spruce. The pollen data from the sites ZBS-4 and RANIS also shows some human disturbance of vegetation, such as partial deforestation of the floodplain. Single and corrupted Cerealia-type and Cannabis-type pollen grains were found in the Fatyanovo cultural layers. The pollen data show that the vegetation disturbances were local and short-term.