History of Geology Without Borders: Armenia and Beyond

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Inbunden, Engelska, 2026

Av Barry Cooper, Marianne Klemun, Ezio Vaccari

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This book presents recent achievements in interdisciplinary archaeological and geological studies as well as new ideas on the development of geological concepts. The territory of Armenia and the South Caucasus region together have been inhabited since Lower Paleolithic times and there is extensive evidence of the prehistoric use of stone and metals and trade of these raw materials. Being situated in the Arabian-Eurasian collision zone, earthquakes and volcanic eruptions also played an important role for Armenia. This book highlights path-breaking associative archaeological and geological research in recent decades, which has contributed enormously to understanding the growth of these two key disciplines in Armenia. It also illuminates information about past human activity, revealing new knowledge of our past through improving reliability of scientific information derived from the potential of archaeologists and geologists to work together in frameworks with a common interest.

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Utgivningsdatum2026-05-14
Mått178 x 254 x undefined mm
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
SerieHistorical Geography and Geosciences
FörlagSpringer Nature Switzerland AG
ISBN9783032179821

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Europas historia inom Historia och arkeologi
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Prof. Barry Cooper is a geologist who gained a Master of Science from the University of Melbourne, Australia, in 1972, a Doctorate of Philosophy from Ohio State University, USA, in 1974 and a Graduate Management Qualification from the Australian Graduate School of Management (University of New South Wales) in 1992.Prof. Cooper has made significant contributions to geological research, mineral industry development and mineral sustainability through 45 years of employment in the earth sciences coupled with senior management, administration and policy development within Government with linkages to associated industries, universities and NGOs. He retired from the Geological Survey of South Australia in 2009 and is currently an adjunct professor at the University of South Australia in Adelaide, Australia.Dr. Marianne Klemun is professor of Modern History at the University of Vienna in Austria. Dr. Klemun obtained an MA in German Language and Literature, History and Teaching at this University, where she also studied Biology, Botany and Geology. She has been the secretary general of the INHIGEO since 2016 and is the director of the History of Science Group at the University of Vienna. Dr. Klemun is also elected member of the International Commission on the History Geological Sciences INHIGEO (since 2004) and in the last decade she served as a board member of the Austrian Society for History of Science. Dr. Ezio Vaccari is a full professor of History of Science and Technology since 2006 at the department of Theory and Application of Science, at the University of Insubria in Italy. He graduated in Letters at the University of Florence in 1989 and obtained a Ph.D. in History of Science from the University of Bari in 1996. Between 1990 and 1998 he was awarded with research fellowships in Germany (Universität Rostock and Bergakademie Freiberg), Ireland (Trinity College, Dublin), Austria (Geologische Bundesanstalt, Wien) and France (Cité des Sciences et de l'Industrie - CNRS, Paris). In 1996 Dr. Vaccari was appointed 'Resident Fellow' for one year at the Dibner Institute for the History of Science and Technology (MIT, Cambridge, Mass., USA).

Introduction: The History of Geology within and beyond Armenia.- The Peregrinations of Noah’s Ark: Deluge, Diluvialists, Diluvium and the Shaping of Geology.- The Making of the Caucasus as a “Space in-Between” and how it became a European topic.- Climbing Mount Ararat: Science, Empire, Romanticism and Something Lost in Translation.- Animated Earth: Collecting Cave Minerals and Debating their Formation in Early Modern Times.- The scientific training of the father of Caucasian geology: Hermann Wilhelm Abich in Italy.- South African geologist Alexander L. du Toit, pioneer of Continental Drift, in the Caucasus (17th IGC, July, 1937) diaries and photographs of an excursion.- Sedrāk Ābdālian (1894–1963); Pioneering Earthquake Geologist in Armenia and Iran.- The interdisciplinary path of the history of geology: the case of Italy.