Geoarchaeology and Archaeological Mineralogy

Natalia Ankusheva, PhD, the scientist of the Laboratory of Mineralogy of Ore Genesis in South Urals Federal Research Center of Mineralogy and Geoecology UB RAS from 2009; the Dean 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.Igor V. Chechushkov, PhD, a researcher fellow at the Museum of Natural History at the Colorado University at Boulder. I am an anthropological archaeologist with the focus on the early complex societies of Eurasia and a particular interest in applying GIS and scientific methods in study of past societies.Andrey V. Epimakhov, Professor, Dr., Chief Researcher at the Institute of History and Archaeology UB RAS in Ekaterinburg since 2003. Scientific interests are related to the multidisciplinary research of the Bronze Age in Northern Eurasia, more than 350 published papers.Maksim Ankushev, PhD, the scientist of the Laboratory of Multidisciplinary Researches in South Urals Federal Research Center of Mineralogy and Geoecology UB RAS from 2011. The main interest is the archaeometry and mineralogy of ancient slags.Polina Ankusheva, PhD, the scientist of the of the Laboratory of Interdisciplinary Research in South Ural Federal Research Center of Mineralogy and Geoecology UB RAS in Miass since 2020. The main interests are mining and metallurgy of the late Bronze Age of the Ural-Kazakhstan region.Kristina Šarić, PhD, Professor, currently works at the Chair of Petrology and Geochemistry, University of Belgrade. Kristina does research in Geology, Geochemistry, Petrology and Archaeometry.

• .- Part I General Archaeometric Issues.- 1 Archaeological Researches: Dating Problems.- 2 Possibilities of Using the Results of AMS Dating when Studying Archeology of Food: Bronze Age of the Southern Urals.- 3 Background Value Analysis of Sr Isotope Data in Studying Mobility (Russian Experience).- Part II Complex Studies of Archaeological Monuments.- 4 Phosphorus as a Predictor of Bronze Age Architecture in the Southern Trans-Urals.- 5 Horizontal Phosphates Distribution in Cultural Layers of Kamenny Brod Bronze Age Settlement in the Trans-Ural Steppes.- 6 Localization of the Сities Mentioned by Claudius Ptolemy in the Middle Dniester Basin, etc.