ИСТИНА

The karst funnels at the north of Arkhangelsk region provide the geomorphological traps that archive traces of forest fires in the buried soil profiles. The pyrogenic horizons in soils of funnels correlate with the largest pyrogenic events of the Holocene (Fig. 1). The calibrated 14C age of the charcoal from the lowest horizons was 10261±36 – 9778±75 cal yr BP, and the age of charcoals from the youngest pyrogenic horizons was 120±77 – 82±64 cal yr BP, which is consistent with historical data on recent fires.