Geoarchaeology and Archaeological Mineralogy: Proceedings of 7th Geoarchaeological Conference, Miass, Russia, 19–23 October 2020

ISBN-13: 9783030860424 / Angielski / Miękka / 2023 / 452 str.

Natalia Ankusheva; Igor V. Chechushkov; Ivan Stepanov

Opis

This book of Springer Proceedings in Geoarchaeology and Archaeological Mineralogy contains selected papers presented at the 7th Geoarchaeology Conference, which took place during October 19–23, 2020, at the South Urals Federal Research Center, Ural Branch of Russian Academy of Sciences, Miass, Russia. The Proceedings combine studies in archeometry, geoarchaeology, and ancient North Eurasian technologies, including paleometallurgy, stone tools investigation, past exploitation of geological resources, bioarchaeology, residue analysis, pottery, and lithics studies. This book also specializes in various non-organic materials, rocks, minerals, ores, and metals, especially copper and metallurgical slags. Many types of research also use modern analytical methods of isotopic, chemical, and mineralogical analysis to address the composition and structure of ancient materials and the technological practices of past human populations of modern Russia, Ukraine, Turkmenistan, Tajikistan, and Mongolia.This book 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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PART 1 ANCIENT METALLURGY: GENERAL ISSUES

Internal and external impulses for the development of ancient Chinese metallurgy

Grigoriev S.

 

Iron sources and technologies during the Early Iron Age in the Northern Pontic region

Kulkova M., Kashuba M., Kulkov A., Ryabkova T. Vetrova M., Zanoci A., Bubnova O.

 

Lead isotope analysis of the Bronze Age metal from the steppe of the Cis- and Trans-Urals

Kiseleva D., Soloshenko N., Okuneva T., Shagalov E., Tkachev V., Bogdanov S., Ankushev M., Koryakova L., Vinogradov N.

 

PART 2 ANCIENT METALLURGY: CASE STUDIES

Metalworking and metallurgical slag in the Tokskoe Late Bronze Age settlement

Ankushev M., Faizullin I., Artemyev D., Blinov I.

 

Arrowheads from Two Sarmatian Burials of the One Mound: Metal Composition and Shape Relation

Blinov I., Tairov A.

 

The ancient Bronzes of Bashkiria: findings on the composition of non-ferrous metal obtained at the burial grounds of the Bronze Age

Bakhshiev I., Kamaleev E.

 

Mineral Composition of the Ground Material from the Stone Pestles of the Gonur-Depe Administrative and Religious Center (South-Eastern Karakum)

Yuminov A., Dubova N., Ankusheva N.

 

Comparison of the results of studying the alloy composition of coins of the Chersonesos minting during Roman and Byzantine times

Antipenko A.V., Maksimova E.M., Naumenko V.E., Naukhatskiy I.A., Smekalova T.N.

"A Crucible with Solidified Substance" or an Ore Sample: Experience of the Complex Analysis of a Unique Find of the Chepetskaya Archaeological Culture

Russkikh E.

 

Kazburun archaeological micro-district of the Late Bronze Age and copper ore mines in the Southern Trans-Urals 

Shcherbakov N., Shuteleva I.

 

PART 3 BIOARCHAEOLOGY AND RESIDUE ANALYSIS

Diet and Mobility in the Pre-Urals Bronze Age, Russia (Preliminary Results of Stable Isotope Analysis) 

Epimakhov A.

 

Sampling Methodology for Assessing a Multi-Proxy Bioavailable Strontium Isotope Baseline for the Orenburg Region (Russia): Fieldwork Results

Kiseleva D., Shagalov E., Ryanskaya A., Pankrushina E.

 

Provenance of the Bronze Age Wool Textiles from the Western Orenburg Region (Russia)

Shishlina N., Kiseleva D., Kuptsova L., Okuneva T., Soloshenko N., Shagalov E., Faizullin I.

 

Preliminary results of REE distribution and 87Sr/86Sr ratio in organic and mineral sources from the Paleolithic sites of Mongolia 

Vishnevskaya I., Okuneva T., Bazargur D., Urazova K., Klementiev A., Marchenko D., Gunchinsuren B., Rybin E., Olsen J., Khatsenovich A.

 

PART 4 MINING OF ORES AND MINERALS IN THE PAST

Starodubtseva Yama - a new ancient mine in the steppes of the Southern Trans-Urals

Ankusheva P., Alaeva I., Ankushev M., Artemyev D., Bazhenov E., Yuminov A.

 

The Paleosoils Properties of Vorovskaya Yama Copper Mine and the Late Bronze Age Climate on the Trans-Urals Plateau

Plekhanova L.

 

New objects of geoarchaeology of Baishevsky archaeological micro-district and adjacent territory of Bashkir Trans-Urals (Southern Urals)

Kazakov P.

 

Assessment of Excavated Volume and Labor Investment at the Novotemirsky Copper Ore Mining Site

Chechushkov I.

 

PART 5 ARCHAEOLOGICAL POTTERY

Middle Eastern Glazed Ceramics of the 11th Century in Bilyar, the Capital of Volga Bulgaria

Valiulina S.

 

Chemical and Technological Characteristics of Glazed Vessels from the Pottery Workshop of the Tsarevskoye Medieval City 

Valiulina S., Bocharov S.

 

Asbestos Ceramics from Archaeological Sites of Southern Fennoscandia (Karelia): Mineralogical and Geochemical Aspects

Kulkova M., Gerasimov D., Kulkov A., Zhulnikov A., Danilov G., Streltsov M.

 

PART 6 LITHIC TOOLS AND MATERIALS

Diversity of Lithic Raw Material Types Used by the Population of the Mountain-Forest Trans-Urals (3rd – 2nd Millennium BC)

Korochkova O., Spiridonov I., Usacheva I., Shagalov E.

 

Stone raw materials as an indicator of economy relations (based on the materials of the sites of the Cucuteni-Tripolye culture heyday in the Bug-Dniester interfluve)

Terekhina V., Skakun N., Bicbaev V.

 

The Role of Non-Isotropic Stone Raw Materials in Industrial Complexes of the Upper Paleolithic Sites (Based on Materials from the Cosauti Site, Republic of Moldova)

Skakun N., Kovalenko S., Terekhina V., Shulga D., Mednikova E.

 

Use of pebble raw materials in the Paleolithic and Mesolithic of the Urals

Serikov Yu.

Obsidian as the primary main raw material for the production of tools in the early agricultural societies of Azerbaijan 

Arazova R., Skakun N.

 

“Home, sweet home”: stones from the Bronze Age settlement hearths (South Trans-Urals, Russia)

Alaeva I., Ankushev M., Ankusheva P., Vasyuchkov E.

 

PART 7 SITE ANALYSES AND GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS (GIS) IN ARCHAEOLOGY

Geoarchaeological studies of kurgans with moustaches: achievements and prospects

Grudochko I.

 

The remote methods for search and study of archaeological objects in Bashkortostan

Nasretdinov R., Bakhshiev I., Gabitov R.

 

Complex investigation (GIS, photogrammetry and natural-scientific methods) of the historical and cultural landscape of Northwestern Colchis in the late antique and medieval times

Trebeleva G., Yurkov G. Kizilov A., Glazov K.,  Tatiana Yu. Shvedchikova T.

 

Application of remote sensing methods for studying the ancient land division system of Tauric Chersonesos on the Mayachnyi peninsula

Smekalova T., Terekhin E.

 

Geoarchaeological Studies on the Territory of Baikal Siberia: Approach and Methods

Berdnikova N., Berdnikov I., Vorobyova G., Shchetnikov A., Filinov I., Krutikova K., Zolotarev D., Lipnina E.

 

PART 8 REVIEWS. THOUGHTS. MEMOIRS

Historical experience and ancient metal production in the South Urals

Vinogradov N.

 

Problems with the definition of artifacts material (the help of the geologists to archaeologists)

Kabanova L., Zaykova E.

 

Search and Mining of Silver in the Urals

Kurlaev E.

 

Problems and perspectives of stone type investigation: elimination of the depassportization of medieval statues of Eurasian nomads

Yevglevskyy A.

 

About the Life and Work of Archaeologist Prof. Gennady B. Zdanovich

On Behalf of the Editorial Board