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HUMAN AND ENVIRONMENT BY THE DATA OF INTERDISCIPLINARY STUDIES
A. V. Logvin, I. V. Shevnina (Kostanay, Kazakhstan)Neolithic Turgai: Climate, Environment, Paleoeconomics and Man (based on materials of the Mahanjar culture)15M. A. Lobanova (Odessa, Ukraine), Zh. M. Matviishyna (Kiev, Ukraine), D. V. Kiosak (Odessa, Ukraine)The Issue of the Stratigraphy of the Site Sabatinovka I and the Enviromental Settings of the Southern Bug Region in the Eneolithic — Late Bronze Age31V. V. Tkachev (Orenburg, Russian Federation)The Concept of Cultural Landscape in Retrospective of the Late Prehistoric Era (by materials of Late Bronze Age of the Southern Urals)53P. S. Ankusheva (Chelyabinsk, Russian Federation), D. V. Kiseleva, O. P. Bachura (Yekaterinburg, Russian Federation), I. P. Alaeva, M. N. Ankushev (Chelyabinsk, Russian Federation), T. G. Okuneva (Yekaterinburg, Russian Federation)Labor and Food of Bronze Age Miners in the Southern Trans-Urals (based on the strontium isotopic composition in the Novotemirsky mine osteological remains)69
ARCHAEOZOOLOGICAL STUDIES
A. Yu. Rassadnikov (Yekaterinburg, Russian Federation)Archaeozoological Evidence of Working Exploitation of Cattle in the Bronze Age of the Southern Trans-Urals85P. A. Frikke (Yekaterinburg, Russian Federation), I. V. Chechushkov (Chelyabinsk, Russian Federation), O. P. Bachura (Yekaterinburg, Russian Federation)Attributes of the Bronze Age Steppe Animal Husbandry Based on the Materials of the Sintashta Culture Funerary Practices (Solntse II Cemetery)99T. I. Smekalova (Saint Petersburg, Russian Federation), F. N. Lisetskii (Belgorod, Russian Federation), N. N. Kashirskaya, A. V. Borisov (Pushchino, Russian Federation)Double Corrals — New Sites of the Bronze Age in the North-West Crimea and Their Study by Geophysical, Geochemical and Microbiological Methods109D. P. Shulga, E. A. Girchenko (Novosibirsk, Russian Federation)Chicken Domestication in Early Holocene of Northern and Central China127
THE EARLIEST TECHNOLOGIES
A. V. Kolesnik, N. V. Manko (Donetsk, Ukraine)Vasilyevskaya Pustosh’ — the Specialized Settlement-workshop of the Chalcolithic in the North-Western Donbass137I. V. Pistruil (Odessa, Ukraine)Flint Production at the Usatovo Culture Settlement of Mayaki169Yu. B. Serikov (Nizhny Tagil, Russian Federation), S. V. Grekhov (Kushva, Russian Federation)Experimental Data on Jade Drilling by Hollow Bone and Copper Tube183A. V. Korokhina, V. N. Belskyi (Kiev, Ukraine)Petrographic and Elemental Analysis of Pottery from the Hlyboke Ozero-2 Settlement (the First Archaeometric Data)197
MATERIAL OBJECT AND ITS FUNCTIONS IN PRIMITIVE CULTURE
I. V. Oktyabrskaya (Novosibirsk, Russian Federation), L. V. Lbova (Saint Petersburg, Russian Federation)Modified Animal Bones in the Sacred, Game and Art Culture of Eurasia. Traditions for Millennia219E. I. Gak, E. A. Kashina, D. Yu. Davydov (Moscow, Russian Federation), A. M. Skorobogatov (Voronezh, Russian Federation), M. V. Eltsov (Moscow, Russian Federation)The Dating and Historical Context around the Logboat Exhibited at the State Historical Museum, Based on the Integrated Studies235D. V. Panchenko (Saint Petersburg, Russian Federation)Warrior’s Razor in Bronze Age Europe: Symbol and Function253
MYTHOLOGICAL PLOTS
A. I. Behr-Glinka (Moscow, Russian Federation)African Stories about Snake-Man: an experience of intertextual approach263
ANTHROPOLOGICAL ETUDES
A. A. Kazarnitsky (Saint Petersburg, Russian Federation), Ju. O. Kapinus, A. P. Grigoryev (Samara, Russian Federation)On the Artificial Deformation of Skulls of Steppe Cultures of the Bronze Age307
RESEARCH AND PUBLICATIONS
S. V. Shnaider, S. V. Zhilich, A. Yu. Fedorchenko, W. Rendu, E. V. Parkhomchuk, S. Alisher kyzy, V. V. Olenchenko, L. V. Tsibizov (Novosibirsk, Russian Federation), N. V. Serdyuk, N. V. Zelenkov (Moscow, Russian Federation), T. Chargynov (Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan), A. I. Krivoshapkin (Novosibirsk, Russian Federation)Surungur — New Early Holocene Archaeological Site in Fergana Valley319S. D. Lysenko, S. S. Lysenko (Kiev, Ukraine)A Set of Metal Finds of Final Stage of the Late Bronze Age from the Territory of the Voitsekhovka Cemetery339
FROM HISTORY OF SCIENCE
S. V. Kuzminykh (Moscow, Russian Federation), A. N. Usachuk (Donetsk, Ukraine), I. V. Belozerova (Moscow, Russian Federation)“My Works Don’t Cost Anything and Aren’t Demanded by Anybody…”: Letters from N. E. Makarenko to V. A. Gorodtsov361
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
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