THE TIME FRAME OF HISTORICAL GEOGRAPHY

Historians have traditionally assumed that the time frame of historical geography begins with the appearance of slave-owning class societies following the communities of primitive man. A geographer now argues for an expansion of the time limits of the discipline to encompass the man-nature relationship not only at the time of the Paleolithic cultures of the Pleistocene, but most particularly the Neolithic cultures of the Holocene, an intermediate period that somehow has been largely ignored by historical geographers. Such an expansion of the time horizon, in the author's view, would help enhance the significance of historical geography, which in the academic life of prerevolutionary Russia and the Soviet Union has been considered more often to lie within the purview of history rather than geography.

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