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SOCIOLOGY OF THE BEYOND
T. M. Kuznetsova (Moscow, Russian Federation)Scythian Kings and Nomarchs — “Cauldron Holders”17M. A. Ochir-Goryaeva (Elista, Russian Federation)The Social and Clan Relations within the Scythian Society, by Planigraphic Analysis of the Kurgans57M. M. Fokeev (Odessa, Ukraine), V. S. Sinika (Tiraspol, Moldova), N. D. Russev
(Kishinev, Moldova)Scythian Barrows-Cenotaphs of the Volovarskata Mogila Group on the Left Bank of the Lower Danube87S. V. Bogdanov (Orenburg, Russian Federation)Cultural-Сhronological Complexes of the Scythian-Sarmatian Time from Nizhnepavlovka I Burial Ground in the Steppe Cis-Ural Region103Yu. A. Prokopenko (Stavropol, Russian Federation)Features of Social Organization among the Bearers of Tomb Culture in 3rd—1st centuries BC (based on materials from burial sites in the Stavropol height and Caucasian Mineral Waters regions)135
ARCHAEOLOGY OF REPRESENTATIONS
S. A. Zintchenko (Moscow, Russian Federation)The Role of the Image Πότνιος Ἳππιος (“Horse-Leader”) as Ethnocultural and Social Marker in the Art of the Eurasian Steppes and Classical Antiquity in the First Half of the I Millennium BC149E. B. Shevchenko (Odessa, Ukraine)The Militancy of Women among the Early Nomads (narrative sources’ testimony)165D. O. Plachuta, A. L. Avtushkova (Novosibirsk, Russian Federation)On Semantics of Some Early Iron Age Altars of Western Siberia: interpretation option181L. I. Babenko (Kharkiv, Ukraine)Pectoral or Torque? (matching the terminology and the morphology of this adornment)187
WORLDS. CULTURES. CHRONOLOGY
V. S. Bochkarev, M. T. Kashuba (Saint Petersburg, Russian Federation)Cultural and Historical Situation in the South of Eastern Europe on the Eve of the Iron Age207S. S. Bessonova (Kiev, Ukraine), I. V. Bruyako (Odessa, Ukraine), N. Alp (Kars, Turkey)A Pair of Bronze Knives from the Museum of Kars221
ANCIENT ITINERARIES
E. M. Chernykh (Izhevsk, Russian Federation)At the Crossroads of River Routes: functional features of the Ananyino settlement near Zuevy Klyuchi Village in the Lower Kama Region267V. N. Myshkin (Samara, Russian Federation)In Search of the Trade Route of Herodotus: the Northern Black Sea import from the nomadic burials of Scythian time in the Trans-Volga and the Southern Ural, Volga river crossings and the “Moscow road”291
ECO-SOCIAL RECONSTRUCTIONS
E. P. Sekerskaya (Odessa, Ukraine)Lion in the Shadow of Man — the Everyday Reality of South-Eastern Europe in the Holocene313S. V. Sharapova (Yekaterinburg, Russian Federation)Bioarchaeology of the Trans-Uralian and West Siberia Forest-Steppe Population (Sargat Culture)323
“EPISTULAE EX PONTO”
T. N. Smekalova (Saint Petersburg, Russian Federation), V. A. Kutaisov (Simferopol, Crimea)Role of Chersonessian Polis in the Development of North-West Tauris in Hellenistic Time353T. V. Egorova (Moscow, Russian Federation)Palmette stamps in Decoration of the 5th—2nd centuries BC Black-Glazed Pottery from Panticapaeum371M. M. Choref (Nizhnevartovsk, Russian Federation)The First Series of Spartocid Bronzes as a Source of Historical Information387
REVIEW
V. I. Mordvintseva (Kiev, Ukraine)Rewiew: Н. П. Тельнов, И. А. Четвериков, В. С. Синика. Скифский могильник ΙΙΙ—ΙΙ вв. до н. э. у с. Глиное. Тирасполь: Stratum plus, 2016. 1096 с. Free!407
AD GLORIAM
R. M. Munchaev (Moscow, Russian Federation)Valery Gulyaev is 80! Free!417V. Yu. Murzin (Zaporizhzhia, Ukraine)I am Catching Our Anniversaries, Like Fluff They Fly off Trees… (birthday anniversary of Svetlana I. Andrukh) Free!421
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
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