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WORLDS. CONFLICTS. WARS  

A. E. Astafiev (Aktau, Kazakhstan), E. S. Bogdanov (Novosibirsk, Russian Federation)An Ancient City on the Eastern Coast of Caspian Sea17V. V. Gorbunov (Barnaul, Russian Federation)Armored Cavalry of the Xiongnu and Xianbi: Reconstructing Armor and Equipment39A. M. Vorontsov, E. V. Stoliarov (Tula, Russian Federation)The 1st Century War on the Border of the Forest Zone: the Oka-Don watershed51M. M. Choref (Nizhnevartovsk, Russian Federation)On the History of the Second Bosporan War75

SIGNS AND SYMBOLS OF MARS  

A. V. Boyko, A. V. Dedyulkin (Rostov-on-Don, Russian Federation)Roman Helmet from the Nizhnesazonov Farm in Historical and Archaeological Context101M. Ju. Treister (Bonn, Germany)About Two Roman Bronze Jugs from the Sarmatian Burials in the Don Basin113A. A. Trufanov, V. V. Masjakin (Simferopol, Crimea)Roman Sword from Ust’-Alma Necropolis (South-Western Crimea)133M. V. Krivosheev, A. S. Skripkin (Volgograd, Russian Federation)Combat Knives from Late Sarmatian Burials147M. M. Kazanski (Paris, France)The Shield Boss of Dobrodzień Type of the Great Migration Period: Distribution, Origin and Dating155R. D. Goldina (Izhevsk, Russian Federation)Fibulae from Tarasovo Burial Ground in the Middle Kama (3rd—5th Centuries)169

ROME AND BARBARIANS: WAR AND PEACE  

N. Yu. Limberis, I. I. Marchenko (Krasnodar, Russian Federation)Graves with Ring-Topped Swords from the Burial Ground of the Maeotian Fortified Settlement Spornoye189A. V. Mastykova (Moscow, Russian Federation), K. L. Iuganov (Kaliningrad, Russian Federation)Burials with Weapons at the Burial Site Zaostrovie-2 of the Roman Period in Northern Sambia211S. A. Yatsenko (Moscow, Russian Federation)Men of Sarmatian Origin in the Bosporan Elite Necropolises of the 1st—4th cc. CE235G. L. Zemtcov (Lipetsk, Russian Federation), D. V. Sarychev (Voronezh, Russian Federation), E. V. Fabricius, V. O. Goncharov (Lipetsk, Russian Federation)Population of the Upper Don Region in the Late Roman Time: Victim or Aggressor?257K. A. Zhambulatov (Almaty, Kazakhstan), V. N. Yagodin (†), E. P. Kitov (Moscow, Russian Federation), R. S. Mussayeva (Almaty, Kazakhstan), V. V. Yagodin (Nukus, Uzbekistan)The Weapon System of the Late Sarmatian Period within Western Kazakhstan and Ustyurt265O.V. Sharov (Saint Petersburg, Russian Federation)Military Graves from Chatyr-Dag Cemetery in Southern Crimea285

TECHNOLOGY OF PEACE AND VIOLENCE. ARCHAEOLOGICAL PROJECTION  

V. I. Zavyalov, N. N. Terekhova (Moscow, Russian Federation)Technological Transformations in Manufacturing of Sarmatian Bladed Weapons313M. A. Balabanova, E. V. Pererva (Volgograd, Russian Federation)Injuries as Archaeological Proof of Armed Violence (a case study of the Sarmatian time cemeteries from the Lower Volga and the Lower Don)321E. Ju. Mednikova, O. V. Sharov (Saint Petersburg, Russian Federation)Technological Features of Mortar Obtained in the Study of Wine-making Complexes of Ilyich-1 Settlement in Temryuk District of Krasnodar Krai343M. G. Abramzon (Magnitogorsk, Russian Federation), I. A. Saprykina (Moscow, Russian Federation)From Silver to Copper Money: Barbarian Invasions, Coinage and Inflation in the Bosporus at the End of the 3rd Century to the Early 340s AD (A study of the chemical composition of the alloy of coins from hoards)359

HISTORY AND THEORY OF SCIENCE  

I. V. Tunkina (Saint Petersburg, Russian Federation)“The Selfless Worker of Science” (B. V. Farmakovskiy. The unpublished obituary for Academician V. V. Latyshev) Free!371E. V. Vdovchenkov (Rostov-on-Don, Russian Federation), V. S. Kuleshov (Stockholm, Sweden)The Sarmatian Tribe as a Potestary Structure389

REVIEWS  

E. V. Vdovchenkov (Rostov-on-Don, Russian Federation)Sarmatians of the Don-Volga-Urals Region (Review: Skripkin A. S. Sarmatians: monograph. Volgograd: Volgograd State University Publishing house, 2017. 293 p.) Free!403

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION  

List of AbbreviationsList of Abbreviations Free!407SubmissionsSubmissions Free!411