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AD MEMORIAM
T. D. Belanovskaya (St.-Petersburg)Tatiana Sergeyevna Passek of blessed memory (August 15, 1903 – August 4, 1968) Free!11V. I. Balabina (Moscow, Russia)About the Beuatiful Lady, her knights and bards Free!14V. A. Dergachev (Kishinev, Moldova)«...and laid them within a golden urn in a foreign country...» (on T.S. Passek’s Centennial) Free!32
MONOGRAPH INSIDE THE JOURNAL
N. M. Shmagliy, M. Yu. Videyko (Kiev, Ukraine)Maydanetskoe – proto-city of the Tripolye culture44
THE TRIPOLIAN WORLD IN EUROPEAN PREHISTORY
N. B. Burdo (Kiev, Ukraine)Peculiarities of the Precucuteni–Tripolye A ceramic complex and the problem of the origin of the Tripolye culture141S. Marinescu-Bîlcu (Bucharest, Romania)New evidence of the influence of Precucuteni traditions in the development of the Cucuteni culture164E. V. Tsvek (Kiev, Ukraine)The eastern Tripolye culture and contacts of its population with the Eneolithic tribes of the Dnestr region170V. A. Kruts (Kiev, Ukraine)Stock-breeding in the economy of the Tripolye culture179S. N. Ryzhov (Kiev, Ukraine)Late Tripolye sites of the Bug and Dnepr interfluves187T. M. Tkachuk (Ivano-Frankovsk, Ukraine)The end of the stage CI and the beginning of the stage CII of the Tripolye culture in the Upper Dnestr region (according to material of the Bilshivtsi settlement)196E. V. Tsvek, Yu. Ya. Rassamakin (Kiev, Ukraine)Miropolye, an Eastern-Tripolye settlement, and relative chronology of Sredniy Stog 2-type sites218M. Szmyt (Poznań, Poland)From studies on contacts of Globular Amphora and Late Tripolye cultures246E. V. Ovchinnikov (Kiev, Ukraine)The production-economic complex of the Thripolye settlement near the farm-stead of Nezamozhnik260N. A. Shevchenko (Kiev, Ukraine)The study of the composition of building material and pottery from the potter’s kiln of the Tripolye settlement at the village of Nezamozhnik by mineral-petrographical method275
ECO-SOCIAL RECONSTRUCTIONS IN ARCHAEOLOGY
L. Nikolova (Salt Lake City, USA – Karlovo, Bulgaria)Approach to the archaeology of social change (A case study from Balkan later prehistory)280N. N. Skakun (Saint-Petersburg, Russia)New data about Eneolithic agricultural tools in South-Eastern Europe295S. V. Ivanova (Odessa, Ukraine)The binary oppositions in the mortuary rite of the Pit-grave culture308S. J. Pustovalov (Kiev, Ukraine)The dynamics of climatic changes in Middle Holocene and some problems of social and economic reconstructions of the Catacomb society in the Northern Black Sea area317
THE ARCHAEOLOGY OF REPRESENTATIONS
V. A. Dergachev (Kishinev, Moldova)The cultural function of the scepters and the model of their possible archaeologization (Based on the Homer epos)335V. V. Tsimidanov (Donetsk, Ukraine)Burials with stone sculptures in the Pit-grave culture of the North-Western Pontic region370
RESEARCHES AND PUBLICATIONS
A. S. Ostroverkhov (Odessa, Ukraine)The earliest archaeological glass in Eastern Europe (late IV mill. – first half of VII cent. B.C.)386N. B. Burdo (Kiev, Ukraine)New data for absolute dating of the Neolithic and Early Eneolithic on the Ukraine territory431Yu. A. Shatalin (Maykop, Russia), Rezepkin A. D. (St. - Petersburg, Russia)The Neolithic cemetery with the grave goods of the Mariupol type in the Kuban region and its place in the cultural context of South-Eastern Europe447I. V. Manzura (Kishinev, Moldova)The problem of the emergence of Early Bronze Age cultures in the Northeast Balkans458G. B. Zdanovich, D. G. Zdanovich (Chelyabinsk, Russia)«The Land of Cities» in the Southern Trans-Urals and some aspects of the steppe developing in the Bronze Age486O. D. Mochalov (Samara, Russia)The «chess» ornament on the pottery of the Middle Bronze Age in the Volga and Ural regions503A. N. Usachuk (Donetsk, Ukraine)About tenons and shield-shaped cheek-pieces515V. A. Dergachev, E. N. Sava (Kishinev, Moldova)Excavation of tumuli in the vicinity of the villages of Mereni and Chirca526L. V. Subbotin, I. V. Sapozhnikov, A. V. Subbotin (Odessa, Ukraine)The tumulus cemetery Diviziya II between the rivers Khadzhider and Alkaliya563Yu. V. Goncharova (St. - Petersburg, Russia – Kishinev, Moldova)Two new Bronze Age hoards from private collections of Kishinev582I. V. Bruyako (Odessa, Ukraine), G. N. Toshchev (Zaporozhie, Ukraine)Material for the archaeological map of the coastal zone of the Dnestr estuary (Bronze Age)587V. S. Bochkarev (St. - Petersburg, Russia), Z. S. Shinkarenko (Bender, Moldova)Metal objects of the Bronze Age from the Bender regional museum592M. T. Kashuba (Kishinev, Moldova), Z. S. Shinkarenko (Bender, Moldova)Two stone axes from the collection of the Bender regional museum595
DISCUSSIONS
Ya. P. Gershkovich (Kiev, Ukraine)Paradoxes in the historiography of the Sabatinovka culture598E. P. Sekerskaya (Odessa, Ukraine)Archaeozoological determinations and their interpretation: current state of the problem608
REVIEWS
L. V. Konkova (Moscow, Russia),Ryndina N. V. Earliest metalworking in South-Eastern Europe. Moscow: Editorial URSS, 1998 Free!615
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
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