Geoarchaeology and Archaeological Mineralogy--2021: Proceedings of 8th Geoarchaeological Conference, Miass, Russia, 20-23 September 2021

This book unites studies in the fields of archaeometry, geoarchaeology, and ancient technologies, based on cases from northern Eurasia, and includes archaeometallurgy, stone tools investigation, exploitation of geological resources in the past, bioarchaeology, residue analysis, pottery and lithics investigation, and use of the GIS in archaeology. The book of Springer Proceedings in Geoarchaeology and Archaeological Mineralogy contains selected papers presented at the 8th Geoarchaeology Conference, which took place during September 20-23, 2021, at the South Urals Federal Research Center, the Ural Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Miass, Russia. A study of non-organic materials, rocks, minerals, ores, metals and 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 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.

Natalia Ankusheva, PhD, the scientist of the Laboratory of Mineralogy of Ore Genesis in SU FRC MG UB RAS from 2009. 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. I am 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 Ural State University since 2014. Scientific interests are related to the multidisciplinary research of the Bronze Age in Northern Eurasia, more than 300 published works. The Editor of Editor’s Team.

Maksim Ankushev, PhD, the scientist of the Laboratory of Multidisciplinary Research in SU FRC MG UB RAS from 2011. The main interest is the archaeometry and mineralogy of ancient slag.

Polina Ankusheva, PhD, the scientist of the Laboratory of Multidisciplinary Research in SU FRC MG UB RAS from 2021. The main interests are mining and metallurgy of the late Bronze Age of the Ural-Kazakhstan region.