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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.
Contents
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.
