From 2014, the abstracts of the All-Russian Scientific Conference with international participation “Geoarchaeology and Archaeological Mineralogy” are presented in the Proceedings (peer-reviewed edition).

The Proceedings includes new data on the prehistoric past of mankind, which were obtained using various natural-scientific analytical methods. The sections are devoted to the topical issues of geoarchaeology (archaeometry), development of the mineral resource base of ancient societies, identification of the peculiarities of ceramic production in antiquity and methods of processing stone material, as well as the characterization of ancient mining and metallurgical complexes and related products of metallurgical processing and metal production. The Proceedings are intended for archaeologists, geologists, historians and museum staff. All issues of the Proceedings are in open access. All the abstracts are reviewed by members of the Organizing Committee and published in the softcover and e-books of abstracts indexed by RSCI.

Founder: South Ural Federal Research Center of Mineralogy and Geoecology of the Ural Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences

Publishers: South Ural Federal Research Center of Mineralogy and GeoecologyUB RAS, and South Ural State Humanitarian and Pedagogical University

Editorial office address: 456317, Russia, Miass, Chelyabinsk Region, Ilmensky Reserve

EDITORS-IN-CHIEF:

Anatoly M. Yuminov, PhD, South Ural Federal Research Center of Mineralogy and Geoecology UB RAS (Miass)

Natalia N. Ankusheva, PhD, South Ural Federal Research Center of Mineralogy and Geoecology UB RAS (Miass)

EDITORIAL BOARD:

Maksim N. Ankushev, PhD, South Ural Federal Research Center of Mineralogy and Geoecology UB RAS (Miass)

Polina S. Ankusheva, PhD, South Ural State University of Humanities and Education (Chelyabinsk), South Ural Federal Research Center of Mineralogy and Geoecology UB RAS (Miass)

Dmitry A. Artemyev, PhD, South Ural Federal Research Center of Mineralogy and Geoecology UB RAS (Miass)

Ivan A. Blinov, PhD, South Ural Federal Research Center of Mineralogy and GeoecologyUB RAS (Miass)

TYPE OF REFERENCE: one-side blind review

TYPES OF PROCEEDINGS: softcover and electronic books

Since 2019, we started the extended Conference proceedings in Springer Nature Publishing titled “Geoarchaeology and Archaeological Mineralogy. Proceedings of Geoarchaeological Conference, Miass, Russia” as part of the series “Springer Proceedings in Earth and Environmental Sciences https://www.springer.com/series/16067. The series indexed in Scopus. The contents of the Conference Proceedings 2019-2022 are on the website of Springer Nature:
https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-030-48864-2,
https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-030-86040-0,
https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-031-16544-3 и
https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-031-46424-9