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XIII/1/2022
INTERDISCIPLINARIA ARCHAEOLOGICA
NATURAL SCIENCES IN ARCHAEOLOGY
homepage: http://www.iansa.eu
Editorial IANSA 1/2022
A Year Full of Changes
Lenka Lisá, Roderick B. Salisbury
The frst issue of the IANSA Journal in 2022 is published
at a time of great worldwide changes. Our journal is no
exception. Looking at the journal’s copyright page, you will
fnd major changes in the composition of the editorial board.
Our long-time Chair of Editorial Board Jaromír Beneš has
decided to step down from his position. He is not leaving
the board of the journal, but he can no longer devote himself
with the intensity that such a position requires. We would
like to thank him for the years spent running the journal.
Jaromír Beneš signifcantly contributed to the fact that today
the IANSA journal is included in the frst quartile among
archaeological journals (according to the Scimago Journal
and Country Rank SRJ 2020 index) and indexed in several
important databases.
Lenka Lisá, who has been a long-time member of the
journal’s board, and was actively involved in its birth, was
elected Chair of the Editorial Board. Associated Professor
Lenka Lisá, PhD. was the frst advocate of modern
geoarchaeology in the Czech Republic, and she continues
to promote geoarchaeology as fundamental to 21
st
-century
archaeology. She is employed at the Institute of Geology
of the Academy of Sciences in Prague and her main job is
research in the feld of geoarchaeology. Lenka Lisá graduated
from Masaryk University in Brno, where she subsequently
defended both her doctoral and associate professor degrees.
For several years, she worked as an associated fellow at
Darwin College in collaboration with Prof. Martin Jones of
the McDonald Institute at the University of Cambridge. Here
she also became interested in methods of micromorphology
in archaeological contexts. Subsequently, she successfully
began to disseminate this methodology in archaeological
research, in the Czech Republic and abroad. Lenka Lisá
has been teaching Geoarchaeology for a long time at West
Bohemian University in Pilsen and at Masaryk University
in Brno, and occasionally at Charles University in Prague or
the University of Hradec Králové. She also mentors students
in bachelors, masters, and doctoral programmes.
Another signifcant development that took place in 2021 is
the change in publishing institutions. The journal is currently
published by two institutions. The Philosophical Faculty
of the University of Hradec Králové, so far co-publisher,
became publisher of the journal and joined the Olomouc
Archaeological Center (ACO) in this role. We believe that
spreading the publisher’s competencies between the two
institutions will facilitate the continued development of our
journal.
Another aspect of our continued development concerns the
merging of the Editorial and Advisory Boards. Until now, the
journal has had an Editorial Board supported by an Advisory
Board. The Editorial Board consisted of predominantly
Czech and Slovak colleagues and functioned as the main
component in processing the individual issues of the journal
and approving major changes. The Advisory Board made
suggestions on the development of Open Access, journal
indexing, and digital content and presentation, among others,
acting as an advisory body with minor editorial contributions.
While this role was essential in the frst decade of IANSA,
the time has come for a new stage in the journal’s life. In
particular, we have decided that although the magazine
is based in the Czech Republic, an international journal
requires an international editorial board. Therefore, we have
acted to merge these two boards. The new board is headed
by Lenka Lisá from Prague, and has as a new Vice-Chair the
former Chair of the Advisory Board, Roderick B. Salisbury
from Vienna. The board now has members from Austria,
Germany, Italy, and the United States, in addition to the
Czech Republic and Slovakia. We hope that this progress
will increase the status of the journal, as well as improve and
expand the scientifc content. However, personnel changes
will not afect our overall thematic scope.
In the last few years, the frst issue of the journal has
always been in the form of a general issue and the second
issue focused on a special thematic issue. This year’s issue
2022/1, although general, is primarily a geologically-themed
issue including papers related to topics such as landscape
analysis, provenance of materials, geophysics, and ancient
topography. However, the reader will also fnd an article
devoted to zooarchaeology. A paper by Matouš Holas
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provides information about the possibilities of landscape
analysis based on historical and cartographic sources. In
this case, the results of the analysis helped to fnd a place
for a geophysical survey, which confrmed the location of
a relic of feld fortifcations for the Austrian artillery near
the baroque Hospital Kuks near Jaroměř. There are two
geophysical studies, one from the South Ural published
by Vladislav Noskevich and Natalia Fedorova. The paper
presents ground-penetrating radar (GPR) prospection
as a useful method for the detection of former wells. The
second geophysical paper, written by Peter Milo and his
team, introduces the use of diferent geophysical methods for
the prospection of a mediaeval site near Dolní Věstonice in
Southern Moravia. Electrical Resistivity Tomography (ERT)
and GPR focused on the rampart, while a third method –
magnetometry – was used to survey the inner part of the site.
Based on the results, it was possible to identify some of the
construction features of the fortifcation and locate the course
of the no-longer-existing rampart and several settlement
structures. The paper related to petrographic research,
written by Ihor S. Nikitenko and his team, discusses the
provenance of the stone material of a moulds complex site of
the Late Bronze Age at Tokivske 1 in Ukraine. The discovery
of the place of stone mining near Tokivske 1 and fnds of
similar moulds in other regions give grounds for considering
the monument to be not only a centre of metalworking but
also stone-processing. The last paper, related to geoscience
and written by George Malaperdas, discusses possible
interpretations of ancient topography using habitation
Model Trend Calculation (MTC). He applies this method to
the example of the Mycenaean Spercheios Valley in Greece.
This issue also contains a paper related to archaeozoological
analyses, written by Alina Veiber. The paper introduces the
archaeozoological analysis of the animal remains from the
Mesolithic site of the Kukrek Culture Igren 8 in Ukraine.
The results of the comprehensive analysis illustrate mainly
the variability of the economic strategy of Mesolithic tribes
in a riverine area.
As usual, the issue ends with a backstory about a chosen
institution and written by members of that institute;
traditionally there is also one or more book reviews. This
time we have managed to connect these parts. The backstory
introduces the Department of Analytical Chemistry, Faculty
of Science, Palacký University in Olomouc. It is followed
by a book review of a publication titled “Modern chemical
analysis in archeology Part 1”, recently published by
members of this same department. Dear readers, we hope the
issue 2022/1 will be of interest to you and we look forward to
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