Natalia Ankusheva - Geoarchaeology and Archaeological Mineralogy: Proceedings of 7th Geoarchaeological Conference, Miass, Russia, 19–23 October 2020

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The Conference Geoarchaeology and Archaeological Mineralogy is dedicated to the famous Russian scientist, Honored Scientist of Russia, Doctor of Geological and Mineralogical Sciences, Prof. Victor V. Zaykovthe founder of geoarchaeology in the Urals. Traditionally, the conference takes place in the Middle September at the South Ural Federal Research Center of Mineralogy and Geoecology of the Urals Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences in Miass.

The conference is organized by the South Ural Federal Research Center of Mineralogy and Geoecology of Ural Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, the South Ural State Humanitarian Pedagogical University, and the South Ural State University.

The multidisciplinary archaeometric research is an important aspect of archaeological surveys. Various mineralogical, chemical, and isotopic research methods that are currently used in the geological study are only just beginning to be introduced into widespread archaeological practice in Russia.

The Geoarchaeology and Archaeological Mineralogy is one of the first conferences which provided a successful collaboration of various researchers from both geological and archaeological areas.

The Geoarchaeological Conference is aimed to coordinate and effectively improve the multilevel training of scientists and make linkages between the young scientists and scientific geological and archaeological institutions. The conference aims to accumulate knowledge on new modern geological, geophysical, mineralogical, petrographic, and geochemical methods for searching and studying of archaeological sites and ancient mines. The conference promotes the application of natural scientific methods in archaeology and contributes to the knowledge of the mineral resource base of ancient societies, the analysis of economic relations in antiquity, and a combination of traditions and innovations from a historical perspective. The main social task of the conference is to form scientific linkages between the young scientists from various geological and archaeological scientific institutions of Russia and the international community and to introduce the new generation of students into the field of science.

The conference meetings deal with several topics. The plenary presentations of professors from leading Russian universities and institutions concern the theoretical problems of geoarchaeology and ways to select the best research methods aimed at solving specific multidisciplinary issues.

In the presentations of young scientists and students, the examples of the application of rocks and minerals by ancient societies are considered, indicating the mineralogical, petrographic, and geochemical features of natural rocks, the structure of ancient mines, and composition of metal items and slags discovered during the archaeological excavations.