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AD MEMORIAM
S. A. Vasiliev (St. Petersburg, Russia)In Remembrance of Nikolai Dmitrievich Praslov (15.10.1937—02.06.2009) Free!17N. M. Zheltova (St. Petersburg, Russia)Looking at an old desk... Free!21PhotoFrom N. D. Praslov’s family photo archive Free!22A. A. Sinitsyn (St. Petersburg, Russia)Praslov’s Stage in the Study of the Palaeolithic of Kostenki Free!29S. N. Astakhov (St. Petersburg, Russia)Nikolai Dmitrievich Praslov — more than half a century of friendship Free!37
OLDER THAN OLDNESS
Kh. A. Amirkhanov (Makhachkala, Russia), E. N. Mashchenko (Moscow, Russia)Urma 1 — an Early Pleistocene Locality in Central Dagestan43V. N. Stepanchuk (Kiev, Ukraine)Lower Palaeolithic Locality Medzhibozh on Southern Buh, Ukraine: New Data and Interpretations47
NEANDERTHALS IN THE SOUTH OF EAST EUROPE
V. E. Shchelinsky (St. Petersburg, Russia)About the Mousterian Site of Ilskaya69V. N. Stepanchuk (Kiev, Ukraine), S. V. Vasilyev, S. B. Boroutskaya (Moscow, Russia)To the Reconstruction of Stratigraphical and Planigraphical Context of Anthropological Finds from Layers III and IIIa of Zaskal’naya VI (Kolosovskaya)111
GRAVETTIAN: NEW MATERIALS
L. V. Kulakovska, V. I. Usik (Kiev, Ukraine), P. Haesaerts (Brussels, Belgium)Doroshivtsy III — Gravettian Site in the Dniester Valley (Ukraine)131
RAW MATERIALS AND TECHNOLOGIES
A. E. Matyukhin (St. Petersburg, Russia)Effect of Raw Materials on Technology and Morphology of the Upper Palaeolithic Artifacts (with special reference to some sites of the South and South-West Russian Plain)153G. A. Yurgenson (Chita, Russia), E. Yu. Girya (St. Petersburg, Russia), P. V. Moroz (Chita, Russia)Flint Raw Materials of Kostenki and Flints of the Russian Plain (an attempt of comparison)179N. B. Akhmetgaleeva (Kurchatov, Russia), A. V. Glavenchuk (Odessa, Ukraine)Worked Bone from the Manufacturing Zone of the Upper Palaeolithic Site of Anetovka II (excavations of 1992—2010)193
AT THE BACK OF BEYOND
V. V. Pitulko, E. Yu. Pavlova, V. V. Ivanova, E. Yu. Girya (St. Petersburg, Russia)Zhokhov Site: Geology and Stone Industry (preliminary report on the excavations of 2000 through 2005)211A. V. Ptashinski (Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, Russia)New Final Palaeolithic Sites on Kamchatka257
ARCHAEOLOGY OF REPRESENTATIONS
K. N. Gavrilov (Moscow, Russia)Double Statuette from Khotylevo 2: Context, Iconography, Composition279A. V. Glavenchuk (Odessa, Ukraine)The Use of Pigment Ochre at the Late Palaeolithic Site of Anetovka II293
WHY NOT?
A. A. Romanchuk (Kishinev, Moldova)Hypothesis of the East Asian Origin of the Sino-Caucasian Languages in the Light of Palaeoanthropological and Archaeological Evidence303
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
List of AbbreviationsList Free!331References Transliterated from Cyrillic into Latin AlphabetReferences Free!332Requirements to contributions to Stratum plusRequirements Free!347