Палеоботанічні дослідження відкладів пізньольодовиків'я та голоцену Київщини

Abstract

The article is dedicated to the history of palaeobotanical science in Ukraine in XX and at the beginning of the XXI century. On an example of Kyiv region the basic periods of palynological investigations of the Late Glacial and Holocene deposits are analyzed on the level of relative and absolute chronology. First for this region the results of the critical analysis of palaeopalynological and palaeoethnobotanical investigations are presented. It is concluded that the Obukhiv district is the best studied from the palaeobotanical point of view. On the grounds of generalized data the immediate tasks for the future palaeobotanical, palaeoclimate, and methodological investigations in Kyiv region are defined.