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THE PREHISTORIC BALKAN
S. Hansen (Berlin, Germany), M. Toderaş (Bucarest, Romania), A. Reingruber (Berlin, Germany), J. Wunderlich (Frankfurt am Main, Germany)Pietrele. The Copper Age Settlement on the Lower Danube17
ECO-SOCIAL RECONSTRUCTIONS
L. Nikolova (Salt Lake City, USA)Sustainability and Health: Artifacts, Prehistoric Village, Practices and Assets89S. V. Ivanova, D. V. Kiosak, O. I. Vinogradova (Odessa, Ukraine)Subsistence Patterns in North-Western Pontic Area and Rapid Climate Changes (6200—2000 years BC)101
ARCHAEOLOGY OF REPRESENTATIONS
S. N. Korenevskiy (Moscow, Russia)Phenomenon of Power and its Symbols on a Long Way to Statehood (Theory and Research Practice)143B. Govedarica (Berlin, Germany)Sacred Symbolism of the Circle: some Thoughts about Innermost Sense of Tumulus Burials167
DISCUSSIONS
L. S. Klejn (St. Petersburg, Russia)Once again towards the Question about the Tocharian Migration183A. A. Romanchuk (Kishinev, Moldova)Solonceni-Hlinaia Facies, Edineţ Group and some other Problems of Saharna-Solonceni’s Genesis: one more Step to Fruitful Discussion187
RESEARCH AND PUBLICATIONS
I. V. Pistruil (Odessa, Ukraine)The Site of Katarzhino 1 and Problem of Neolithic Sites Identifi cation in North-West Pontic Steppes209T. I. Akhundov (Baku, Azerbaijan)Archaeological Sites of the Mugan Steppe and Prerequisites for Agricultural Settlement in the South Caucasus in the Neolithic-Eneolithic219S. V. Ivanova (Odessa, Ukraine), I. V. Manzura (Kishinev, Moldova)New Burial Complexes of the Late Copper Age in the North-West Pontic Region237А. N. Usachuk (Donetsk, Ukraine), A. I. Yudin, Yu. A. Afrikanov (Saratov, Russia)New Finds of Shield-Shaped Cheek-Pieces in the Volga River Basin near Saratov247A. M. Hasanova (Baku, Azerbaijan)Historical-Analytical Research of Attributes of Metallurgical Production from Archaeological Sites of the Middle Bronze Age in Azerbaijan265I. V. Bruyako, A. N. Dzigovsky (Odessa, Ukraine)Excavation of a Burial Mound in the Vicinity of the Fortifi ed Settlement of Kartal273
REVIEWS AND PRESENTATIONS
V. I. Borshevich (Kishinev, Moldova)Phenomenology of Klejn Free!281
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
List of AbbreviationsList Free!289References Transliterated from Cyrillic into Latin AlphabetReferences Free!291Requirements to contributions to Stratum plusRequirements Free!305