Geoarchaeology and Archaeological Mineralogy: Proceedings of 9th Geoarchaeological Conference, Miass, Russia, 1922 September 2022 [Hardcover]

The volume of Springer Proceedings in Geoarchaeology and Archaeological Mineralogy contains selected papers presented at the 9th Geoarchaeology Conference, which took place during September 1922, 2022, at the South Urals Federal Research Center, the Ural Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Miass, Russia. The Proceedings unite studies in the fields of archeometry, geoarchaeology, and ancient technologies, based on cases from northern Eurasia, and include archaeometallurgy, stone tools investigation, exploitation of geological resources in the past, bioarchaeology, residue analysis, pottery and lithics investigation, use of the GIS in archaeology. A study of non-organic materials, rocks, minerals, ores, metals, metallurgical slags is a special focus of the book. Many papers also use modern analytical methods of isotopic, chemical, and mineralogical analysis to study the composition and structure of ancient materials and the technological practices of past human populations ofModern Russia, Ukraine, Turkmenistan, Tajikistan, and Mongolia. The volume is intended for archaeologists, historians, museum workers, and geologists, as well as students, researchers from other disciplines, and the general public interested in the interdisciplinary research in the field of archaeology and archaeological materials, strategies and techniques of past quarrying, mining, metallurgy and lithic technologies at different chronological periods in Eurasian steppe and adjacent forest zone.

 

Preface.- Contents.- General Issues of Geoarchaeology and Archaeometry.- Bioarchaeology and !ultural Layer Research.- The Use of Rocks and Minerals byAncient Societies.- Mineralogical and Geochemical Methods in the Study ofAncient Ceramics.- Archaeometallurgy and Metalworking.-In Memoriam

Natalia Ankusheva, Ph.D., the scientist of the Laboratory of Mineralogy of Ore Genesis in South Urals Federal Research Center ols%