Influenţa antropizării asupra solului din şanţurile Valurilor lui Traian de Jos şi de Sus din Republica Moldova [Articol]

Abstract

Studies conducted in the trenches of Southern (or Lower) Trajan’s Wall (in the Cahul district) and Upper Trajan’s Wall (in the Cimișlia district), demonstrate that the soil represents a footprint that reflects history through its properties, creating a typical morphological profile for each type of soil, similar to the characteristic physical and chemical properties. In the case of the soil profiles of Upper and Lower Trajan’s Walls, the anthropogenic footprint is reflected precisely through the paedogenetic regularities of the intact genetic soil profiles. The soil in the ditch and that in the vicinity of Trajan’s Walls has the same origin according to the soil type and physical and chemical parameters, and the soil profiles in the ditch reflect the anthropogenic implication in a distant period of time. The depth of the Upper Trajan’s Wall trench was about 400 cm, that of the Lower Trajan’s Wall trench – 220-240 cm.