Geoarchaeology and Archaeological Mineralogy Proceedings of 9th Geoarchaeological Conference, Miass, Russia, 19–22 September 2022

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 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 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.

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.