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FORGES AND ARSENALS OF THE BRONZE AGE  

V. A. Dergachev (Kishinev, Moldova)The Maykop-Novosvobodnaya-Banyabik Type Axes. Sites and Finds Catalogue17O. N. Korochkova, V. I. Stefanov, I. A. Spiridonov (Yekaterinburg, Russian Federation)The Central Trans-Urals in the Context of the Western Asian Metallurgical Province: the Koptyaki Culture Phenomenon61A. S. Yermolayeva (Almaty, Kazakhstan), S. V. Kuzminykh (Moscow, Russian Federation), Pak Jang-Sik (Sejong, South Korea), Ye. V. Dubyagina (Almaty, Kazakhstan)Late Bronze Age Weapons from Foundry Workshops of Taldysay Settlement, Central Kazakhstan109V. B. Pankowski (Kiev, Ukraine), K. V. Gorbenko (Nikolaev, Ukraine)The Bronze Hoard from the Fortifi ed Settlement of Dikiy Sad121T. Yu. Hoshko (Kiev, Ukraine)Elemental Composition of Metal Alloys in the Hoard from Dikiy Sad161V. S. Bochkarev, I. Zh. Tutaeva (Saint Petersburg, Russian Federation)The Late Bronze Age Openwork Spearheads in Eastern Europe and Beyond167

TOILERS, FIGHTERS, AND ANTHROPOLOGISTS  

A. I. Korolev (Samara, Russian Federation), V. V. Stavitsky (Penza, Russian Federation), A. A. Khokhlov (Samara, Russian Federation)Armed Violence in the Early Metal Age (the case of the Kipets I flat cemetery in the headwater of the Vorona River)225S. V. Vasilyev (Moscow, Russian Federation), A. Kriiska (Tartu, Estonia), S. B. Borutskaya (Moscow, Russian Federation), L. Varul (Tallinn, Estonia)The Anthropological Characteristics and Combat Traumas in Eastern Baltics in the III Millennium BC, as Evidenced in Ardu Cemetery in Estonia237O. D. Kozak (Kiev, Ukraine)Bronze Age Burials with Blunt Weapons from the Sugokleja Barrow: Anthropological and Paleopathological Perspective251A. A. Khokhlov (Samara, Russian Federation), E. P. Kitov (Moscow, Russian Federation)Traumagenic Defects in the Early Metal Age Human Osseous Sample from the Volga-Urals Region267

SUPREMACY, PRESTIGE, AND WARFARE: NEW VISTAS IN GRAVESITES ARCHAEOLOGY  

S. N. Korenevskiy (Moscow, Russian Federation)The Barrow Grave with a Stone Axe Head near the Mashuk Winery Farm: an Issue of Grave Inventory Symbolism283S. N. Razumov (Tiraspol, Moldova)Early Bronze Age Quiver Sets from the North Black Sea Region295R. A. Lytvynenko (Vinnytsia, Ukraine)War and the Post-Catacomb World313P. F. Kuznetsov (Samara, Russian Federation), A. N. Usachuk (Donetsk, Ukraine)Relations Between the Common and the Special in Manufacture of the Uren Cheek-pieces, the Harness Equipments for Battle Chariots335

ARGUMENTS AND AGREEMENTS  

I. V. Chechushkov (Pittsburg, USA), A. S. Yakimov (Tyumen, Russian Federation), G. Dakovic (Pittsburg, USA)Towards the Archaeological Interpretation for the Ditch and Wall Systems and the Issue of Defensibility of the Sintashta-Petrovka Forts345A. A. Vybornov (Samara, Russian Federation), P. A. Kosintsev (Yekaterinburg, Russian Federation), M. A. Kulkova (Saint Petersburg, Russian Federation), N. S. Doga, V. I. Platonov (Samara, Russian Federation)When Food Producing Economy Appeared in the Lower Volga Region359A. F. Gorelik (Bochum, Germany)“Neolithisation” or “Sub-Neolithisation” of the Northern Pontic-Caspian Region?369

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION  

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