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INTEGRATION MODELS OF ANTIQUITY
Sh. N. Amirov (Moscow, Russian Federation)About the Moderately Fertile Crescent of the Temperate Climate Zone. (The Steppe Belt of Eastern Europe in the Early and Middle Holocene)15V. G. Petrenko (†)Late Eneolithic Archaeological Sites of the South Dniester Region and Budzhak Steppe Free!63I. V. Manzura (Kishinev, Moldova)Comments on the Article by V. G. Petrenko “Late Eneolithic Archaeological Sites of the South Dniester Region and Budzhak Steppe” Free!99
TECHNOLOGY OF ANCIENT WORLD
A. M. Kiseleva (Saint Petersburg, Russian Federation)Early Neolithic Pottery on the Kola North: Typology and New Data on Chronology107S. E. Malykh (Moscow, Russian Federation)Standardization of Ancient Egyptian Pottery in the Second Half of the 3rd Millennium BC: Typological Illusion or Reality?121L. M. Sverchkov (Tashkent, Uzbekistan)On the Exploration of Lapis Lazuli Deposits in the Middle East (On the Issue of Localization of the Aratta Country)139T. N. Smekalova, A. N. Gavrilyuk (Simferopol, Crimea)Kaymachinsky Bronze Age Hoard from North-Western Crimea: XRF Analysis of Alloy Composition149
ARCHAEOLOGY OF BELIEFES
Zh. V. Marchenko, A. E. Grishin, Yu. N. Garkusha (Novosibirsk, Russian Federation)The Earliest Shamanic Attributes from the Northern Angara River Region175I. V. Manzura (Kishinev, Moldova)The Axe in the Ritual Practice of the Early Eneolithic of Eastern Europe: the Origins of the Tradition193A. I. Murashkin (Saint Petersburg, Russian Federation)Typology of Ornaments on Bone and Antler Items Found on Mayak 2 Settlement (Murmansk, Russia)205
ANTHROPOLOGICAL ETUDES
A. A. Romanchuk (Kishinev, Moldova)The Origin of E-M81 Haplogoup: the Turn of the Era or the Neolithic?221A. V. Engovatova, Kh. Kh. Mustafi n, I. E. Alborova (Moscow, Russian Federation), A. A. Kanapin, A. A. Samsonova (Saint Petersburg, Russian Federation), M. B. Mednikova (Moscow, Russian Federation)“Lost Child” or Vanguard? Linking Fatyanovo Population with Middle Volga Abashevo Culture using Ancient DNA Sequencing Data227D. A. Kirichenko (Baku, Azerbaijan)About Skull Trepanation on the Territory of South Caucasus and Near East in the Early Bronze Age251E. Yu. Girya (Saint Petersburg, Russian Federation), A. S. Zheludkov (Lipetsk, Russian Federation), S. V. Vasiliev (Moscow, Russian Federation)Posthumous Trepanation from the Burial of the Middle Bronze Age on the Upper Don271
ARCHAEOLOGY REMEMBERS
S. V. Kuzminykh (Moscow, Russian Federation), V. N. Saenko (Kyiv, Ukraine)“Crouched Inhumations Don’t Give Me Peace”: Bronze Age of the Northern Black Sea Region in A. V. Dobrovolsky’s Studies (based on correspondence with A. M. Tallgren and V. A. Gorodtsov) Free!283
RESEARCH AND PUBLICATIONS
V. A. Borzunov (Yekaterinburg, Russian Federation)Shaitanka Fortified Settlement of the Late Bronze Age in the Ket’ River Basin (Western Siberia): New Interpretation319V. N. Karmanov (Syktyvkar, Russian Federation)Sites on the Korotaikha River (Barents Sea Basin): Bronze Age Habitats, Cemeteries or Sanctuaries?355S. D. Lysenko (Kyiv, Ukraine), S. N. Razumov, V. S. Sinika (Tiraspol, Moldova), N. P. Telnov (Kishinev, Moldova)Graves of the Late Bronze Age from the Barrows of “Klin” Group on the Left Bank of the Lower Dniester377
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
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