Archaeology, Ethnology & Anthropology of Eurasia 37 (2) 2009

Annotation:  Evolution of the Quaternary Environment in the Northwestern Altai Kostenki-4: The Position of Artifacts in Space and Time (the Analysis of the Cultural Layer) Stratigraphic Data on Middle Paleolithic Sites in the Upper Desna Basin Human-made Bedrock Holes (Mortars and Cupmarks) as a Late Natufi an Social Phenomenon Tsaram: A Burial Ground of the Hsiung-nu Elite in Transbaikalia Species Attribution of Hair of the Pazyryk Fur Coat from the Olon-Kurin-Gol-10 Burial Ground, Mongo Shaitanskoye Ozero II: New Aspects of the Uralian Bronze Age Yankovsky Economics: Animal Bones from 1st Millennium BC Settlements in Primorye, Russian Far East “Technical Decoration” of the Tripolye Ceramics On the Interpretation of Central Asian and South Siberian Rock Art Forms of Nomadism and Livestock Management of the Eastern Sayan Buryats in the Late 19th and Early Harvesting of Siberian Pine Nuts in Mountain Shoria: Traditions and Nowadays The Ethnic History of Medieval Novgorod (Based on Craniometric Data) Seliungur Teeth Revisited L.K. Gudkova.   

Harvesting of Siberian Pine Nuts in Mountain Shoria: Traditions and Nowadays

The article characterises harvesting of Siberian pine nuts by the Shor people, one of the indigenous minorities of the Russian Federation inhabiting Kemerovo Oblast. The distribution area of the Shor coincides with the ecological optimum of Siberian pine in Northern Asia. Harvesting of pine nuts is a part of traditional nature management by the Shor and even today it preserves its archaic features. Nut harvesting income is an important part of the family budget for many Shor families. Preservation and development of Siberian pine nut picking is considered to be a basis for the preservation of traditional culture of Mountain Shoria, as well as a strengthening of the regional economy.

Keywords: Shor people, indigenous minorities of Russia, traditional culture, harvesting of Siberian pine nuts.