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MONOGRAPH INSIDE THE JOURNAL  

K. K. Marchenko (Saint Petersburg, Russia)The Chora of Olbia (contributions to the ethno-cultural characteristic of the agrarian territory of the Polis)17

CHANGING OF CULTURES AND CULTURAL CATASTROPHS  

D. S. Grechko (Kiev, Ukraine)On the Question of Cimmerian Sites and “Early Scythian” Culture133I. V. Bruyako (Odessa, Ukraine)About the Benefit of Archaeology in Search of Pure (Notes about actual maintenance of the concept “Thraco-Cimmerian” culture horizon)155

RESEARCH AND PUBLICATIONS  

S. A. Skory (Kiev, Ukraine)A Bronze Ancient Matrix from Foothill Crimea193E. E. Fialko (Kiev, UkraineA Series of Amazons’ Burials from the Lower Dnieper Area203S. V. Makhortykh (Kiev, Ukraine)Burial Structures and Rite of the Barrow Necropolises of the Bel’sk Hillfort223S. M. Agulnikov, S. S. Popovici, S. B. Ţerna, D. A. Topal (Kishinev, Moldova)A Scythian Barrow 7 near Purcari on Lower Dniester257O. K. Savelyev (Odessa, Ukraine)Mythological Scenes on Red-Lacquered Cera mics from Tyra285

WORLDS. CULTURES. CHRONOLOGY  

A. A. Romanchuk, Iu. O. Tsvigun (Kishinev, Moldova)Sauromathians and Savirians: to the Possibility to Clear the Ethnic Nature293R. V. Tikhonov (Yelets, Russia)On the Hellenization of Bactria’s Pottery Craft321

REVIEWS  

A. К. Nefedkin (Saint Petersburg, Russia)A New Book on War Elephants. [Rev.] Nossov K. War Elephants (New Vanguard, 150). Oxford: Osprey Publishing Ltd, 2008, 48 pp Free!333

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION  

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