Geoarchaeology and Archaeological Mineralogy

1. Front Matter

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2. Ancient Metallurgy: General Issues

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1

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   2. Internal and External Impulses for the Development of Ancient Chinese Metallurgy

      • Stanislav A. Grigoriev

      Pages 3-9

   3. Iron Sources and Technologies During the Early Iron Age in the Northern Pontic Region

      • Marianna A. Kulkova, Maya T. Kashuba, Aleksandr M. Kulkov, Tatyana V. Ryabkova, Mariya N. Vetrova, Aurel Zanoci et al.

      Pages 11-28

   4. Lead Isotope Analysis of the Bronze Age Metal in the Steppe Cis- and Trans-Urals

      • Daria V. Kiseleva, Natalia G. Soloshenko, Tatyana G. Okuneva, Evgeny S. Shagalov, Vitaly V. Tkachev, Sergey V. Bogdanov et al.

      Pages 29-38

3. Ancient Metallurgy: Case Studies

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 39-39

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   2. Metalworking and Metallurgical Slags in Tokskoe Late Bronze Age Settlement

      • Maksim N. Ankushev, Ildar A. Faizullin, Dmitry A. Artemyev, Ivan A. Blinov

      Pages 41-52

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

      • Ivan A. Blinov, Alexander D. Tairov

      Pages 53-66

   4. The Ancient Bronzes of Bashkiria: Findings on the Composition of Non-ferrous Metal Obtained at the Burial Grounds of the Bronze Age

      • Ilshat I. Bakhshiev, Elvir V. Kamaleev

      Pages 67-74

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

      • Anatoly M. Yuminov, Ivan A. Blinov, Natalia Ankusheva

      Pages 75-82

   6. Comparison of the Results of Studying the Composition of the Alloy of Coins of Chersonesus Minting of the Roman and Byzantine Times

      • Anna V. Antipenko, Elena M. Maksimova, Valery Ye. Naumenko, Igor A. Nauhatsky, Tatiana N. Smekalova, Nikolay A. Alekseienko

      Pages 83-92

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

      • Elena L. Russkikh, Vasiliy A. Volkov, Faat Z. Gilmutdinov

      Pages 93-104

   8. Kazburun Archaeological Micro-district of the Late Bronze Age and Copper Ore Mines in the Southern Trans-Urals

      • Nikolai B. Shcherbakov, Iia A. Shuteleva, Alexandra A. Golyeva

      Pages 105-113

4. Bioarchaeology and Residue Analysis

   1. Front Matter

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

      • Andrey V. Epimakhov, Elya P. Zazovskaya

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

      • Daria V. Kiseleva, Evgeny S. Shagalov, Anastasia D. Ryanskaya, Elizaveta A. Pankrushina

      Pages 127-135

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

      • Natalia I. Shishlina, Daria V. Kiseleva, Lidia V. Kuptsova, Tatyana G. Okuneva, Natalia G. Soloshenko, Evgeny S. Shagalov et al.

      Pages 137-150

   5. Preliminary Results of the Analysis of REE Distribution and 87Sr/86Sr Ratios in Organic and Mineral Sources from Paleolithic Sites in the Orkhon Valley, Mongolia

      • Irina A. Vishnevskaya, Tatiana G. Okuneva, Dashzeveg Bazargur, Kristina K. Urazova, Alexei M. Klementiev, Daria V. Marchenko et al.

      Pages 151-163

5. Mining of Ores and Minerals in the Past

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 165-165

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   2. Starodubtseva Yama—A New Ancient Mine of the Southern Trans-Urals Steppes

      • Polina S. Ankusheva, Irina P. Alaeva, Maksim N. Ankushev, Dmitry A. Artemyev, Evgeny A. Bazhenov, Anatoly M. Yuminov

      Pages 167-179

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.

• North Eurasian archaeology
• Bronze Age Urals
• Paleometallurgy
• Ancient mineral exploitation
• Archaeological materials
• Isotopic studies

• South Ural Federal Research Center of Mineralogy and Geoecology, Ural Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Miass, Russia

  Natalia Ankusheva, Ivan Stepanov, Maksim Ankushev, Polina Ankusheva

• Institute of History and Archaeology, Ural Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Ekaterinburg, Russia

  Igor V. Chechushkov

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