{"title":"The Geographical Term “Steppe”: Its Origin, Evolution, and Distribution","authors":"A. A. Tishkov","doi":"10.1134/S2079096125700015","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"<p>The genesis and the transformation of the concept of “steppe” are discussed. It has been shown that initially the etymology of this term can be linked to a terrain feature and forestlessness and in general corresponds to the “steppe forefatherland” of Indo-European peoples and languages. We have found that this term has a dualistic nature, the latter having played a role in how it was interpreted in the ancient literature and scientific sources. We have traced the diversity of the meanings of “steppe” as an orographic term, its correlation with the concept of “field,” and how it happened that “steppe” became a landscape concept. For the first time, an attempt was made to explain the spread of this term based on the results obtained by the interdisciplinary collaboration of geneticists, linguists, and archaeologists and their estimates of the time of formation and settlement of Indo-European peoples.</p>","PeriodicalId":44316,"journal":{"name":"Arid Ecosystems","volume":"15 2","pages":"123 - 130"},"PeriodicalIF":0.6000,"publicationDate":"2025-09-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Arid Ecosystems","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://link.springer.com/article/10.1134/S2079096125700015","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q4","JCRName":"ECOLOGY","Score":null,"Total":0}
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The genesis and the transformation of the concept of “steppe” are discussed. It has been shown that initially the etymology of this term can be linked to a terrain feature and forestlessness and in general corresponds to the “steppe forefatherland” of Indo-European peoples and languages. We have found that this term has a dualistic nature, the latter having played a role in how it was interpreted in the ancient literature and scientific sources. We have traced the diversity of the meanings of “steppe” as an orographic term, its correlation with the concept of “field,” and how it happened that “steppe” became a landscape concept. For the first time, an attempt was made to explain the spread of this term based on the results obtained by the interdisciplinary collaboration of geneticists, linguists, and archaeologists and their estimates of the time of formation and settlement of Indo-European peoples.
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Arid Ecosystems publishes original scientific research articles on desert and semidesert ecosystems and environment:systematic studies of arid territories: climate changes, water supply of territories, soils as ecological factors of ecosystems state and dynamics in different scales (from local to global);systematic studies of arid ecosystems: composition and structure, diversity, ecology; paleohistory; dynamics under anthropogenic and natural factors impact, including climate changes; studying of bioresources and biodiversity, and development of the mapping methods;arid ecosystems protection: development of the theory and methods of degradation prevention and monitoring; desert ecosystems rehabilitation;problems of desertification: theoretical and practical issues of modern aridization processes under anthropogenic impact and global climate changes.
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