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GAMES AND ARTEFACTS OF NON-ADULT PEOPLE
N. V. Zhilina (Moscow, Russian Federation)Identifying Toys15M. M. Kazanski (Paris, France), A. V. Mastykova (Moscow, Russian Federation)Armed Children: Burials of Boys with Ceremonial Weapons in the Black Sea Region and on the Rhine (Late 4th — First Half of the 6th Centuries) and the First Battle of Prince Svyatoslav37N. A. Tropin (Yelets, Russian Federation), A. A. Chubur (Bryansk, Russian Federation)Alchiks of the Slavic Vorgol Settlement: from Game to Ritual49V. S. Aksonov (Kharkiv, Ukraine)“In childhood, the thread of life is thinner…” (Pendant-amulets from the Graves of the Saltov-Mayak Culture from the Seversky Donets Basin)61E. D. Zilivinskaya (Moscow, Russian Federation)Elusive Traces: Children in the Golden Horde75A. E. Zhabreva (Saint Petersburg, Russian Federation)The Material World of a Child in Russian and European Book Illustrations of the 13th—16th Centuries91
CHILDREN IN THE WORLD OF THE DEAD
M. A. Kudinova, S. A. Komissarov, A. I. Soloviev (Novosibirsk, Russian Federation)Burials of Young Princesses in Early Medieval China105V. A. Makouskaya, M. A. Plavinski (Warsaw, Poland)A Child in the World of the Dead: a Christian or a Pagan (Based on the Materials of the Old Russian Time Burial Sites Excavations in the Principality of Polotsk)123M. S. Pavlova (Saint Petersburg, Russian Federation)Early Medieval Children’s Burials from a New Burial Ground in Staraya Ladoga139N. N. Seregin (Barnaul, Russian Federation), N. F. Stepanova (Novosibirsk, Russian Federation)Children’s Burial of the Beginning of the Early Middle Ages from the Gorny- 10 Necropolis (South of Western Siberia)151S. B. Borutskaya, S. V. Vasilyev (Moscow, Russian Federation)Comparative Analysis of Child Mortality Rates in Russian Cities and Villages of the 16th—18th Centuries163
PROBLEMS OF ‘TRANSITION’
V. E. Rodinkova, M. V. Dobrovolskaya, N. G. Svirkina (Moscow, Russian Federation)On Early Slavs’ Vital Traditions: the Remains of a “Special” Child from the Dwelling of the Volyntsevo Culture175O. D. Fais-Leutskaia (Moscow, Russian Federation)Children in the Context of the Celebration of the Day of Remembrance of the Dead in Sicily: Status, Beliefs, Ritual Practices in the Past and Present193A. A. Novik (Saint Petersburg, Russian Federation)Midwives, Babos Dita and Children in the Ritual Practices of Budzhak and Azov Albanians in the 20th — early 21st centuries205N. G. Golant (Saint Petersburg, Russian Federation)Ora de pomană in Funeral and Memorial Rites of Romanians (Vlachs) of the Timok Valley217J. Bagińska (Tomaszów Lubelski, Poland), A. E. Musin (Caen, France)Icon in the Forest. Religious and Cultural Changes in the Polish-Rus’ Medieval Borderlands in the Light of New Archaeological Finds229
ANTHROPOLOGY OF IDEAS
F. N. Veselov (Saint Petersburg, Russian Federation)Batu’s Invasion: Babylonian Captivity on the Russian Land261S. A. Daniliuc (Căuşeni, Moldova)Gravura „Vedere asupra bătăliei de la Căuşeni, 13 septembrie 1789” ca sursă asupra istoriei Căuşenului277
HUNGARIAN ETUDES
P. Somogyi (Satteins, Austria), A. Türk (Budapest, Hungary)New Radiocarbon Data to the Timeline of the Hungarian Conquest. Bayesian model and possible genetic connections of the deceased from Graves III/11 and II/52 in Karos-Eperiesszög289A. A. Porsin (Magnitogorsk, Russian Federation), Z. M. Junissova (Astana, Kazakhstan)Eastern and Western Hungarians in the Uluses of Chagatai and Jochi307
KARELIAN ETUDES
S. I. Kochkurkina (Petrozavodsk, Russian Federation)Ethnocultural History of Medieval Karelia335S. V. Belskiy, K. V. Gorlov, G. K. Danilov (Saint Petersburg, Russian Federation)Coin-item Deposit near Village Asilan (Karelia, Russian Federation)353
RESEARCH AND PUBLICATIONS
A. A. Romanchuk (Kishinev, Moldova)The “Rus’ of Stemid and Lidulf” and the hypothesis of East-Germanic etymology of the ethnonym Rus’375O. S. Rumyantseva, A. V. Mastykova (Moscow, Russian Federation), V. E. Naumenko (Simferopol,
Crimea)Window Glass from Gorzuvity and Mangup Fort in the Crimea: Chemical Composition, Origin and Chronology in the Historical and Cultural Context383M. V. Kvitnytskyi (Kyiv, Ukraine), V. K. Grib (Donetsk)Medieval Helmet from Gruzsky402
REVIEWS
M. A. Plavinski (Warsaw, Poland)“In Search of the Tenth Century” (Review: A Viking Century Chernihiv Area from 900 to 1000 AD, edited by Stepan Stepanenko (Occasional Monographs. Hlib Ivakin memorial series 6), Paris: ACHCByz, 2022. — 636 p.) Free!419
OBITUARY
A. V. Krasnozhon (Odessa, Ucraine)To the Memory of Andrei Dobrolyubsky (1949—2023) Free!425
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
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