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SINITSYN'S BIRTHDAY ANNIVERSARY
S. A. Vasiliev, A. A. Bessudnov, A. K. Otcherednoy, K. N. Stepanova (Sankt Petersburg, Rusia)Andrei Sinitsyn: Life and Fate in Kostenki Free!15ListList of Scientific Works by A. A. Sinitsyn Free!21Album of PhotosFrom Kostenki to Kostenki: Album of Photos Free!33
MAGIC, CULTS AND FANTASTIC IMAGES
V. N. Stepanchuk (Kyiv, Ukraine)Probable Evidence of Magical Practice from Layer I of the Upper Palaeolithic Site of Mira41V. I. Tashak, Yu. E. Antonova (Ulan-Ude, Russian Federation), E. V. Kovychev (Chita, Russian Federation)Manuports as Evidence of Nonutilitarian Behaviors in the Upper Palaeolithic of Transbaikalia55M. G. Zhilin (Moscow, Russian Federation)Antler Staff Heads in the Shape of Fantastic Beasts in the Mesolithic of the Volga-Oka Interfl uves Area69
BRAIN AND COGNITIVE EVOLUTION
S. V. Vasilyev (Moscow, Russian Federation), D. V. Bulgin (Sochi, Russian Federation),
S. B. Borutskaya, I. A. Chichaev, S. I. Kartashov (Moscow, Russian Federation)Endocranium of the Sungir Man (Sungir 1). Preliminary Results of the Study by Means of Computed Tomography83N. S. Rozov (Novosibirsk, Russian Federation)Nomological Explanation of the Formation of Social Norms in Anthropogenesis: a Trial89
KOSTENKI AND THE PALAEOLITHIC OF EASTERN AND CENTRAL EUROPE
J. Hoffecker (Boulder, Colorado, USA), S. N. Lisitsyn (Saint Petersburg, Russian Federation),
V. Holliday (Tucson, Arizona, USA)A North American Plains Perspective on the Early Upper Paleolithic of the East European Plain101P. Yu. Pavlov (Syktyvkar, Russian Federation)The Main Stages and Specific Features of the Initial Peopling of the Northeast of East European Plain and the Urals at the Beginning of the Upper Palaeolithic129R. Dinnis (Aberdeen, UK)Recent Bone Dating Work at Kostenki151M. N. Zheltova, S. N. Lisitsyn, K. N. Stepanova (Saint Petersburg, Russian Federation)Is there a Link between Stone Polishing and “Complex Gathering” in the Palaeolithic? (based on the Materials of the Kostenki-Borshevo Sites)171K. N. Stepanova, A. A. Malyutina, A. A. Bessudnov, E. Yu. Girya (Saint Petersburg, Russian Federation)Personal Ornaments from Kostenki 17, Layer II: Manufacturing, Usage and Cultural Context Within the Initial Upper Palaeolithic of Eastern Europe193A. A. Bessudnov (Saint Petersburg, Russian Federation)Types of Post-depositional Deformations of Palaeolithic Cultural Layers (with Special Reference to the Kostenki Group of Sites)221G. A. Khlopachev, M. A. Kulkova (Saint Petersburg, Russian Federation), Yu. N. Gribchenko (†)The characteristics of settlement structure formation on the Upper Paleolithic site of Yudinovo according to archaeological and geochemical investigations of 2015—2018239Z. Nerudová (Brno, Czech Republic)Reconstruction of the Evolution of Palaeolithic Settlements within an Urban Agglomeration259
PALAEOLITHIC OF CENTRAL ASIA
S. A. Vasiliev, L. B. Vishnyatsky, A. K. Otcherednoy (Saint Petersburg, Russian Federation)The Torgalyk Locality in Tuva and the Question of the Eastern Reaches of the Micoquian275E. P. Rybin, Yu. E. Antonova (Novosibirsk, Russian Federation), V. I. Tashak (Ulan-Ude,
Russian Federation), D. V. Kobylkin (Irkutsk, Russian Federation), A. M. Khatsenovich (Novosibirsk, Russian Federation), B. Gunchinsuren (Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia)Early Stages of the Upper Paleolithic in the Selenga River Basin: Technological Variability, Subsistence, Settlement Systems285N. E. Belousova, A. M. Rodionov, A. V. Vishnevskiy, A. Yu. Fedorchenko, V. A. Mikhienko,
M. V. Seletskiy (Novosibirsk, Russian Federation)Initial and Early Upper Palaeolithic “Thin” Leaf-shaped Bifaces: Technology, Shaping and Stone Raw Material329A. M. Khatsenovich, E. P. Rybin, E. V. Parkhomchuk, S. V. Zhilich (Novosibirsk, Russian
Federation), Ts. Bolorbat (Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia), A. V. Petrozhitskii (Novosibirsk,
Russian Federation), D. Bazargur, D. Odsuren, Ya. Tserendagva, B. Gunchinsuren (Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia), J. W. Olsen (Tucson, Arizona, USA)Chronology of Archaeological Complexes with Geometric Microliths in Northern Mongolia355
THEMATIC REVIEWS
A. S. Koliasnikova, P. V. Chistiakov, K. A. Kolobova (Novosibirsk, Russian Federation)Principal Approaches to the Study of Middle Palaeolithic Bone Retouchers Free!371
FROM THE HISTORY OF SCIENCE
A. Yu. Danilchenko (Rostov-on-Don, Russian Federation)History of the Study of the Middle Palaeolithic of the North-Eastern Azov Sea Region and the Lower Reaches of the Seversky Donets Free!387
AD MEMORIAM
S. I. Covalenco, N. P. Telnov (Kishinev, Moldova)On Nicolae Chetraru’s 90th Birthday Anniversary (21.10.1931—29.05.2011) Free!405
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
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