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HUMAN AND THE SURROUNDING NATURAL ENVIRONMENT
E. P. Sekerskaya (Odessa, Ukraine)Running Weasel, Crouching Lion and Lurking Cat: Archaeozoological Materials on the Lower Danube15A. V. Symonenko (Kiev, Ukraine)On the Chronology of the “Hoards” of Horse Harness of Early Sarmatian Age25I. N. Khrapunov, S. B. Shabanov (Simferopol, Crimea)Horse Burials in the Opushki Cemetery49A. V. Mastykova, M. V. Dobrovolskaya, E. E. Antipina (Moscow, Russian Federation)A Warrior and a Warhorse among the Aestians: the first results of a study of the “equestrian” burial of Roman times at the Romanovo-Pugachevsky Prud cemetery61A. I. Aibabin, E. A. Khairedinova (Simferopol, Crimea)Burials with Parting Food of the Great Migration Period from the Burial Ground near the Village Luchistoe (South-Western Crimea)79M. M. Kazanski (Paris, France)Sacrifices of Horses in “Princely” Tombs During the Late Phase of the Great Migration Period95Yu. A. Salova (Kazan, Russian Federation), D. A. Petrova (Tolyatti, Russian Federation), Ye. V. Ponomarenko (Ottawa, Canada), V. V. Kondrashin (Kazan, Russian Federation)Pyre Fuel for the Cremations of the Middle of the First Millennium AD in the Middle Volga Region109L. A. Vyazov, G. Sh. Asylgaraeva (Kazan, Russian Federation), M. R. Gismatullin (Ulyanovsk, Russian Federation)A Study of the Archaeozoological Collection from the Ashna-Pando Hillfort in the Middle Sura Region125
HUMAN AND THE SURROUNDING IMAGINARY WORLD
P. V. Shuvalov (Saint Petersburg, Russian Federation)“Eating foxes, forest cats, and wild boars, howling each other like wolves”: Pseudo-Maurice, Pseudo-Caesarius and Procopius about the Slavs before Maurice141N. G. Svirkina, M. V. Dobrovolskaya (Moscow, Russian Federation)Artificially Deformed Skulls from the Frontovoe 3 Burial Ground149E. V. Pererva, V. I. Moiseev, I. I. Kharlamova (Volgograd, Russian Federation)Non-standard Dead Body Positioning in the Middle Sarmatian Grave from Kovalevka Burial Ground: Is it by Accident or Ritual?159
HUMAN AND THE SURROUNDING MATERIAL WORLD
M. Ju. Treister (Bonn, Germany)Bronze Vessels from Mutin Necropolis Reconsidered (on the German Warriors on the Sejm River and German-Sarmatian Contacts on the Eve of the New Era)181E. R. Mikhaylova (Saint Petersburg, Russian Federation)A Rare Type Fibula from the Nikolskoye XVII Burial Ground on the Suda River203E. V. Sukhanov (Moscow, Russian Federation)Red-slip Ware Ceramics of the End of the 1st — First Half of the 3rd Centuries from Frontovoe 3 Burial Ground (chronological and planigraphic analysis)211M. A. Plavinski (Minsk, Belarus), R. Liwoch (Kraków, Poland)Finds of the Silver Neck Rings from the Great Migration Period, “with a Faceted Hoop and a Double-Loop Lock” from the Territory of the Belarusian Neman and Dvina Region221A. V. Mastykova, A. N. Sviridov (Moscow, Russian Federation)Two-horned Lamellar Lunulas of the Roman Period in the Crimea: distribution, dating (by materials from the Frontovoye 3 Burial Ground)231
HUMAN AND THE CALVE OF GOLD
M. M. Choref (Nizhnevartovsk, Russian Federation)On the History of the Reign of Rhadamsades245K. V. Myzgin (Warsaw, Poland), A. V. Petrauskas (Kiev, Ukraine)A Roman Denarii Hoard from the Village Khmelivka, Zhytomyr Oblast (Ukraine)255V. M. Sidarovich, Ks. F. Ermalitskaia (Minsk, Belarus)Comparative Analysis of the Elemental Composition of Two Groups of Barbarian Coins: Struck Imitations and Cast Copies of Roman Imperial Denarii271I. A. Saprykina, L. A. Pelgunova (Moscow, Russian Federation)Golden Jewelry from Frontovoe 3 Cemetery: Composition and Manufacturing Techniques (Preliminary Results)283
CONCEPTS, LEGENDS, AND SITES
A. M. Oblomskiy (Moscow, Russian Federation)Two Concepts of Early Slavic Archaeology of the Dnieper Left Bank Area. The Vicissitudes of the Method299N.I. Khrapunov (Simferopol, Crimea)The Legend of Gycia, Stanislas Sestrencewicz-Bohusz, and Catherine II321A. N. Podushkin, A. G. Donets (Shymkent, Kazakhstan)Excavations of the Kultobe Settlement of Arys and Kylyshzhar Burial Ground in South Kazakhstan333N. Yu. Limberis, I. I. Marchenko (Krasnodar, Russian Federation)Crypt of the Roman Times from the Barrow Necropolis of Vinogradnoe-7 Settlement on the Taman Peninsula349R. A. Kozlenko (Nikolaev, Ukraine)Barracks of the Roman Garrison in Olbia359A. A. Strokov, G. A. Kamelina (Moscow, Russian Federation)The Materials from Ai-Todor Burial Ground in the Collection of the State Historical Museum in Moscow, from V. D. Blavatsky’s Excavations: revisiting the forgotten collection383
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