GEOLOGY. GEOGRAPHY.
Issue 1, 2014
CONTENTS
| Section | GEOGRAPHY | ||
| Codes UDC | 913.1 / 913.8 /911.3 | Page | 136-146 |
| Title | Most ancient (prehistoric) water routes of North Eurasia according to data of toponymy | ||
| Author 1 | Grigoryev Al. A. | St.Petersburg State University Universitetskaya nab., 7/9, St.Petersburg, 199034, Russian Federation Doctor of Geographic Sciences, Professor e-mail: neva8137@mail.ru |
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| Summary | On the basis of analysis of topographical maps (mainly scale 1:200 000) in North Eurasia in the zones of forests and tundra, about 200 toponyms are educed with the Sanskrit formant ind . The results are identifying a considerably larger area, reclaimed by the people created these place names. The information corresponds to fragmentary ancient cartographic sources. Before, according to the data of specialists in Indian culture and archaeologists that studied similar toponyms (time of their origins is attributed to the period about 2500 BC), the inhabited area was limited to the steppe stripe from the Carpathians to the Sayan Mountains. The clusters of the place names associated with the rivers facilitate to reveal the most ancient water routes of the territory reclaimation. The article discusses the four most essential water routes (the Rhine - the Mein - the Danube, White sea - Lake Onega - the White lake - Volga, Ob - Yenisei in lower and in a middle flow). It is underlined that the general vector of the territory reclamation, according to the features of distribution of toponyms, is from north to south. | ||
| Keywords | water route, portage, toponym with formant (element) ind, North Eurasia, channels, topographic maps. | ||