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Book SynopsisThis 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.
Table of ContentsPART 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
