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

Natalia N. Ankusheva (Curatore)

Igor V. Chechushkov (Curatore)

Springer International Publishing AG, 2022

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.

• Curatore: Natalia N. Ankusheva, Igor V. Chechushkov
• Editore: Springer International Publishing AG
• Collana: Springer Proceedings in Earth and Environmental Sciences
• Anno: 2022
• Rilegatura: Hardback
• Pagine: 316 p.
• Dimensioni: 235 x 155 mm
• EAN: 9783031165436

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