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AD MEMORIAM
Iu. N. Stamati (Greater Sudbury, Canada)Maria Comşa or How the Relationship between Two “Friendly Countries” Influenced the Career of an Archaeologist Free!15F. Curta (Gainesville, USA)Marxism in Maria Comşa’s Works Free!29A. Comşa (Bucharest, Romania)On the Same Path. A Few Words in Memory of my Mother Free!43Album of PhotosAlbum Free!47
FOLLOWING THE STEPS OF THE GREAT MIGRATIONS
M. M. Kazanski (Paris, France)Morskoj Chulek — Shamsi — Arzhan Buguzun: Migration of Steppe Nomads in post-Hunnic Period and “Princely” Culture55A. V. Mastykova (Moscow, Russian Federation)Some Elements of the Women’s Clothing of the Sedentary Population of the Steppe Borderland in the Great Migration Period: Migration or Fashion?73I. Bugarski (Belgrade, Serbia)On the Sixth-century Germanic Finds from the Central Balkans Hilltop Fortresses91V. E. Rodinkova (Moscow, Russian Federation)Cultural Connections of the Sudzha Region Population in the Migration Period99
ROADS OF EURASIA
N. N. Seregin (Barnaul, Russian Federation)About One “Unknown” Migration: Altai in the middle of the I millennium AD115A. I. Buraev (Ulan-Ude, Russian Federation)Sculptural Images of Riders from the Mound of Ulan Kherem Shoroon Bumbagar in Mongolia (anthropological aspect)129V. S. Aksonov (Kharkiv, Ukraine)“Without a Road from Home, there is no Road to Home...” (migrants from the North Caucasus in the Seversky Donets basin at the stage of the Saltov-Mayaki culture formation)139E. D. Zilivinskaya (Moscow, Russian Federation), D. V. Vasiliev (Astrakhan, Russian Federation)Migration of the Population of the Khazar Kaganate Based on Materials from the Lower Volga Region153A. S. Shchavelev (Moscow, Russian Federation)On the “Round Ships” from Chersonesos to Sarkel: To the Question of the Type of Ships used by Petronas Camaterus in 830s171A. Madgearu (Bucharest, Romania)The Pechenegs in Transylvania. Invasions, colonizations, migrations177M. V. Kvitnytskyi (Tiraspol, Moldova), M. P. Syvolap, V. (Cherkassy, Ukraine), P. Grigoriev (†)Barrow-Cenotaph of the 11th—12th Centuries near Irkliev Village, the Site of the Pereyaslav Torks in the Dnieper Region191I. Tentiuc (Kishinev, Moldova)The Vikings and Ther Relationship with the Romance Inhabitants of the Carpatho-Nistrian Lands in 9th—11th Centuries205D. Radičević (Belgrade, Serbia)Archaeological Traces of the Mongol Invasion on the Territory of Serbia231
ADOPTING A NEW HOMELAND
C. Paraschiv-Talmaţchi (Constanţa, Romania)Archaeological Reflection of the Presence of Migratory Populations in the South-East of Romania (with special regard to the Istro-Pontic territory)249C. Cosma (Cluj-Napoca, Romania)The Avar Presence in Transylvania. Chronology. Motivation. Territorial Boundaries261S. Oţa (Bucharest, Romania)Some Remarks on the Problem of Population Movements in the Area between Mureş, Tisza, Danube and the Southern Carpathians (9th—10th centuries)277B. Sz. Szmoniewski (Kraków, Poland), V. Voinea (Constanţa, România)Cheile Dobrogei: what the Early Medieval Items Found at the Caves Tell us about the People who Lived There295B. Ciupercă (Ploieşti, Romania)The Fortifications of Slon and the Presence of the Adrianopolitans North of the Lower Danube313M. V. Kvitnytskyi (Tiraspol, Moldova), A. Türk (Budapest, Hungary), N. P. Telnov (Kishinev, Moldova), S. D. Lysenko (Kiev, Ukraine), V. S. Sinika (Tiraspol, Moldova)Two Hungarian Graves of the 9th Century in the Danube-Dnister Steppes329A. A. Romanchuk (Kishinev, Moldova)The Balts or not the Balts? Early Slavic Migrations and “Baltic” Toponymy341I. V. Stasyuk (Saint Petersburg, Russian Federation), Kh. Kh. Mustafin, I. E. Alborova (Moscow, Russian Federation)“Slavic colonization” of the Vod’ land: historiography, problems, new approaches347
MIGRATIONS OF IDEAS AND THINGS…
A. Gândilă (Huntsville, USA)The Monetary Economy of Dobrudja during the Migration Age (6th—7th centuries)363N. Hrissimov (Veliko Tarnovo, Bulgaria)About the “Migration” of One Kind of Weapon in the Early Middle Ages and Its Development in the 7th Century377E. Gáll (Bucharest, Romania), F. Mărginean (Arad, Romania), S. Peter (Cluj-Napoca, Romania)On the “Mobility” of Symbols. Sign of the Cross on the Pot Found in Grave 20a from Pecica-Duvenbeck401S. Doncheva (Shumen, Bulgaria)Production of Byzantine Folisses at the Metal Art Centers at the Vicinity of Preslav in the 10th Century411M. M. Choref (Nizhnevartovsk, Russian Federation)Inscription above the Entrance to Sary Gyuzel Bathhouse in Bakhchisaray as a Source on the History of the Crimea425
REVIEWS AND PRESENTATIONS
Iu. N. Stamati (Greater Sudbury, Canada)The book that surely will not get unnoticed: Curta Fl. 2020. Slavs in the Making. History, Linguistics, and Archaeology in Eastern Europe (ca. 500 — ca. 700). Abingdon-on-Thames: Routledge Free!433N. D. Russev (Kishinev, Moldova)Earrings in the form of question mark from medieval Bulgaria: a few thoughts about archaeology in connection with Georghi Vladimirov’s publication Free!437
IN MEMORY OF THOSE WHO PASSED AWAY
N. P. Telnov (Kishinev, Moldova)On the 90 th Birthday Anniversary of Pavel P. Bârnea (22.10.1930—30.05.2002) Free!443V. A. Hutsal (Kamyanets-Podilsky, Ukraine)To the Memory of Researcher, Colleague and Teacher. On the 90 th Birthday Anniversary of I. S. Vinokur Free!447S. V. Beletsky (Saint Petersburg, Russian Federation)Ad memoriam: A. N. Kirpichnikov (25.06.1929 — 16.10.2020) Free!453
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