Geoarchaeology and Archaeological Mineralogy

ISBN-13: 9783031464232 / Angielski / Twarda / 2023

Opis

The volume of Springer Proceedings in Geoarchaeology and Archaeological Mineralogy contains selected papers presented at the 9th Geoarchaeology Conference, which took place during September 19–22, 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 of Modern 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. 

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Preface

Contents

Chapter 1 General Issues of Geoarchaeology and Archaeometry

Geoarchaeological studies of the coast of Northwestern Colchis

Galina V. Trebeleva, Andrey L. Chepalyga, Suram M. Sakania, Tamara A. Sadchikova, Gleb Yu. Yurkov

Ancient hydrographic network of the Taman Peninsula according to Earth remote sensing data and geomorphologic research

Ekaterina A. Manuilova, Oleg V. Hotylev, Sergey V. Olkhovsky

Historical-Сartographic and Toponymic Approaches in Geoarchaeology: a Case Study of Temples and Temple Complexes

Silviya K. Kostovska, Yuliana Yu. Gordova, Olga A. Herzen, Andrey A. Herzen

About the purity of hands and conjectures: how to avoid mistakes in the analysis of ancient artifacts

Anatoly M. Yuminov, Ivan I. Blinov, Natalia N. Ankusheva

Chapter 2 Bioarchaeology and Сultural Layer Research

Strontium isotope ratio in archaeobiological samples: diagnosis of key factors (based on Bronze Age sites in the Southern Trans-Urals)

Andrey V. Epimakhov, Maksim N. Ankushev, Polina S. Ankusheva, N.S. Batanina, Daria V. Kiseleva, Ludmila N. Koryakova, Igor V. Chechushkov

Palynological studies of cultural layers of the fortified settlement Ulak-1 of the Bronze Age (South Ural, Russia)

lshat I. Bakhshiev, Ravil G. Kurmanov

Physico-chemical properties of deposits Bronze Age at settlements steppes of the Southern Trans-Urals

Irina P. Alaeva, Natalia N. Kashirskaya, Ludmila N. Plekhanova

Bone products from the settlements of the Srubnaya culture of the Southern Urals (preliminary results of the traceological and functional-typological analysis)

Egor V. Bersenev, Ilshat I. Bakhshiev

Spear shaft and axe handle from burials at the Merkul settlement: archaeobotanical analysis

Nadezhda Y. Suntsova, Vladlen G. Yurkov, Zurab G. Khondzia, Galina V. Trebeleva

Architecture of Kurgans with Moustaches of the Southern Trans-Urals (according to soil and archaeological data)

Ivan V. Grudochko, Artjom S. Jakimov, Anna L. Plaksina

Chapter 3 The Use of Rocks and Minerals byAncient Societies

The use of ore minerals in the sacred sphere of the ancient population of the Urals

Yuri B. Serikov

New data on the Besleneevskaya paleolithic workshop located on outcrops of high quality color flints, North-Western Caucasus

Lubov V. Golovanova

The Raw Material Aspect of the Development of the Neolithic Stone Industry in the Barabinsk Forest-Steppe

Vladimir V. Bobrov, Alexei V. Veretennikov

New data on the lithic raw materials strategies in the Epipaleolithic of the Elbrus region, Caucasus

Ekaterina V. Doronicheva

Serpentinite artifacts of the Borodino hoard: determination of the mineral deposits class and probable ore provinces

Pavel I. Kalinin

Composition of mineral pigments from a stone vessel of the settlement of Levoberezhnoye (Southern Urals)

Anatoly M. Yuminov, Fedor N. Petrov, Natalia N. Ankusheva

Composition and probable sources of stone material of Phanagoria acropolis

Alexei O. Khotylev, Sergei V. Olkhovskiy, Alexander A. Mayorov

Authenticity and renovation of stone sculptures (On the most disliked exhibits in museums

Aleksander V. Yevglevsky

Chapter 4 Mineralogical and Geochemical Methods in the Study ofAncient Ceramics

The crushed carbonate temper from ceramic pastes of the Bronze – Early Iron Age pottery in the Northern Black Sea region: the technological reception or traditional approach

Marianna A. Kulkova, Maya T. Kashuba, Alexander M. Kulkov, M.N. Vetrova

Formation of the Fyodorovka (Andronovo) Ceramic Traditions of the Late Bronze Age in the Trans-Urals

Stanislav A. Grigoriev, Natalia P. Salugina

The Researches of Pithoi and Plinth Paste and Natural Clay from Markulskoe Hillforrt 

Marina E. Klemeshova, Vladlen G. Yurkov, Vladislav E. Kirillov, Gleb Y. Yurkov, Galina V. Trebeleva

Chapter 5 Archaeometallurgy and Metalworking

Copper and Bronze Tools and Weapons of the Petrovka culture of the Southern Trans-Urals and the Tobol Region: Alloys

Anna D. Degtyareva and Sergey V. Kuzminykh

Functionality of building structures at the Bronze Age mine Vorovskaya Yama in the Southern Trans-Urals (based on excavation of 2021)

Polina S. Ankusheva, Anatoly M. Yuminov, Ivan V. Molchanov, Irina P. Alaeva, Maksim N. Ankushev

Metallurgical slags of the II Kuzminkovskoe Bronze Age settlement (Southern Cis-Urals)

Maksim N. Ankushev, Ildar A. Faizullin, Ivan A. Blinov, Dmitry A. Artemyev

Composition of copper and bronze items from Ashchisu burial ground

Ivan A. Blinov 1, Marina V. Bedelbayeva

The results of archaeometallographic studies of blacksmith products from the rural settlements of the Moscow region

Vladimir I. Zavyalov, Natalia N. Terekhova

Metallurgical slags from the excavations of the archaeological monument of the settlement of Kobylikha (Nenets Autonomous Okrug)

Alexander M. Murygin, Irina S. Astakhova, Alexey V. Korotaev

In Memoriam

About the Life and Work of the Geologist and Geoarchaeologist Elizaveta V. Zaykova

Anatoly M. Yuminov, Natalia N. Ankusheva

O autorze

Natalia Ankusheva, Ph.D., the scientist of the Laboratory of Mineralogy of Ore Genesis in South Urals Federal Research Center of Mineralogy and Geoecology UB RAS in Miass since 2009; the Supervisor of the Geological Department of the South Urals State University. The main interest is the fluid inclusion study of different opaque minerals in different type deposits of Urals and other regions. The Corresponding Editor of Editor’s Team.

Igor Chechushkov, Ph.D., a senior researcher at the Institute of History and Archaeology UB RAS in Ekaterinburg, an anthropological archaeologist with the focus on the early complex societies of Eurasia and a particular interest in applying GIS and scientific methods in study of past societies. 

Andrey Epimakhov, Prof., Dr., Chief Researcher at South Urals State University since 2000. Scientific interests are related to the multidisciplinary research of the Bronze Age in Northern Eurasia, more than 350 published papers. 

Maksim Ankushev, Ph.D., the scientist of the Laboratory of Multidisciplinary Researches in South Urals Federal Research Center of Mineralogy and Geoecology UB RAS in Miass since 2011. The main interest is the archaeometry and mineralogy of ancient slags. 

Polina Ankusheva, Ph.D., the scientist of the of the Archaeological laboratory in South Ural State Humanitarian Pedagogical University in Chelyabinsk since 2015. The main interests are mining and metallurgy of the late Bronze Age of the Ural-Kazakhstan region.