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.

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**** PART 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. ...