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LANGUAGES AND TEXTS OF WARRIOR CULTURE
S. B. Valchak (Moscow, Russian Federation)Transformation of Decor from Pre-Scythian to Early Scythian Horse Harness: a Change in Worldview Images15V. E. Maslov (Moscow, Russian Federation)The First Images in the Scythian “Animal Style”41R. V. Zymovets (Kyiv, Ukraine), V. N. Okatenko (Kharkiv, Ukraine)Silver Bull Protome from Barrow no. 2 of Karavan Group near the Town Lubotyn57Ju. G. Kokorina (Moscow, Russian Federation)On the Semantics of the Decorations of the Ilyichevo Quiver (On the Question of the Ancient Zoomorphic Classifications)89
OPLE AND THINGS IN THE IRON AGE
I. V. Rukavishnikova (Moscow, Russian Federation), D. V. Beylin (Simferopol, Crimea), T. N. Smekalova (Saint Petersburg, Russian Federation), A. V. Antipenko, L. L. Leonov (Simferopol, Crimea), E. S. Vashchenkova, R. R. Saifutyarov, E. B. Yatsishina (Moscow, Russian Federation)Path to the Afterlife of the Cimmerian Chariot. X-ray Fluorescence and Mass spectrometric Studies of Horse and Chariot Equipment from the L’govskoye Burial Mound in the Crimea101D. P. Shulga (Novosibirsk, Russian Federation)About Early Bronze Mirrors from China123V. N. Myshkin (Samara, Russian Federation)The Saka of the Aral Sea Region and the Formation of the Nomadic Society of the Southern Urals in the 6th—5th Centuries BC133N. A. Berseneva (Chelyabinsk, Russian Federation)Mirrors in the Funerary Rite of the Early Nomads in the Southern Urals: a Marker of Gender or Status, a Cultic Object or an Everyday Life Artefact?159T. M. Kuznetsova (Moscow, Russian Federation)Items with an Undefined Function and Magic of Mirrors171O. S. Frunt (Kyiv, Ukraine)“Sacred Noise and Secular Silence”: Pole-tops of the Early Scythian Period in a Burial Context189L. I. Babenko (Kharkiv, Ukraine)World Tree Buds: About one Type of Scythian Pole-tops215
SOCIOLOGY OF THE OTHERWORLD
H. V. Vertiienko (Kyiv, Ukraine)Lux Tenebrarum in the Beliefs of the Ancient Iranian-speaking Peoples239N. P. Matveeva, M. M. Prokonova (Tyumen, Russian Federation)On the Ritual Practices of the Population of the Gorokhovo Culture253Yu. A. Prokopenko (Stavropol, Russian Federation)Elements of the Hearth Cult Complex in the Funerary Practice of the Population of the Central Ciscaucasia in Scythian and Sarmatian Periods267V. K. Fedorov (Ufa, Russian Federation)Black Pebbles, White Bones: On Some Ritual Objects from the Early Nomad Burials of the Southern Urals281Yu. D. Razuvaev (Voronezh, Russian Federation)Everyday Things in the Cult Practices of the Middle Don Settled Population of the Scythian Era305
ARCHAEOLOGY OF IDEAS
A. N. Kovalenko (Rostov-on-Don, Russian Federation)New Data on Religious Life of the Population of the Elizavetovskaya Settlement in the Don River Delta319N. N. Golovchenko (Barnaul, Russian Federation)Clothing Assemblage in the Burial Rituals of the Early Iron Age Population of the Upper Ob River Region337G. S. Jumabekova, S. A. Nigmatova, E. K. Altynbekova, K. Altynbekov, G. A. Bazarbayeva (Almaty, Kazakhstan)Woman and Rituals in the Early Nomadic Culture: with Reference to Finds from the Tasaryk Kurgan in Kazakhstan359
RESEARCH AND PUBLICATIONS
A. K. Kasparov, Yu. A. Vinogradov (Saint Petersburg, Russian Federation)Mysticism and Everyday Life: Osteological Materials from a Classical Time Settlement of Artyushchenko–1 (Taman Peninsula)381S. S. Ivanov (Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan)Irdyk Hoard with a Mirror with a Zoomorphic Decor from the Issyk-Kul Lake Region393S. I. Andrukh, G. N. Toschev (Zaporizhzhia, Ukraine)An Early Scythian Barrow of Mamai-Gora Burial Ground in Lower Dnieper Region405A. A. Kadieva, S. V. Demidenko (Moscow, Russian Federation)Warrior Graves of the Scythian Period in the Zayukovo-3 Cemetery423
REVIEWS
S. A. Skoryj (Kyiv, Ukraine)Review: Denis Topal. Akinakes in the West of Scythian World. Chişinău: Biblioteca “Tyragetia”, 2021. XXXV. — 648 p., 212 figs., 40 tables of the catalog, 16 ill. color.441
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