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SITES, CULTURES, AND PROBLEMS
V. E. Rodinkova, O. S. Beliavskaia (Moscow, Russian Federation)A New Assemblage Belonging to the Dnieper Early Medieval Hoard Horizon from the Sudzha Region15VN. N. Seregin, S. S. Matrenin (Barnaul, Russian Federation), N. F. Stepanova (Novosibirsk, Russian Federation)New Evidence on the Material Culture of the Population of Southern Western Siberia During the First Turkic Khaganate31A. P. Gavrilov (Shilovo, Russian Federation), V. V. Stavitsky (Penza, Russian Federation), M. A. Scheglov, S. I. Milshtein (Moscow, Russian Federation)The Undrich Burial Ground and the Terekhovo Hillfort through the Lens of LiDAR Survey47
HUNGARIAN ETUDES
S. G. Botalov (Chelyabinsk, Russian Federation), V. A. Ivanov (Ufa, Russian Federation), A. K. Kushkumbaev (Astana, Kazakhstan)Ural Hungary: Phases of Historical and Cultural Development61T. D. Ursu (Tiraspol, Moldova), N. P. Telnov (Kishinev, Moldova), A. Türk (Budapest, Hungary), V. S. Sinika (Tiraspol, Moldova)Medieval Hungarian Burials with Axe Models in the Lower Dniester77
“STONE FACES” OF THE GREAT STEPPE
T. M. Potyomkina (Donetsk)A New Typology and Old Problems in the Study of Cuman Sculptures103A. A. Kharlamova (Kharkiv, Ukraine)The Role and Place of Stone Statues in Cuman Funerary and Memorial Rites127
«SUMMA TECHNOLOGIARUM»
O. S. Rumyantseva, A. V. Mastykova (Moscow, Russian Federation), M. V. Chervyakovskaya, V. S. Chervyakovskiy (Yekaterinburg, Russian Federation)Chemical Composition of Window Glass from the Churches of the Tepsen Plateau and Sources of Raw Materials for Architectural Glass in Crimea and the North-Eastern Black Sea Region141V. E. Kuznetsov, A. R. Smertin (Perm, Russian Federation)Technological Features of Medieval Trade-Weight Production in the Perm Cis-Urals163I. O. Goryachev, E. G. Tolmacheva, O. V. Orfi nskaya, V. V. Korobkova, M. S. Iakovchik, O. P. Dobrova, Yu. A. Ikhlainen, M. A. Statkus (Moscow, Russian Federation)A Comprehensive Study of Ancient Rus’ Textiles from the Teshilovsky Settlement Necropolis173T. N. Smekalova, S. K. Fridrichson (Simferopol, Crimea), A. Yu. Elizarova (Feodosia, Crimea), N. B. Maiko, M. R. Mal’gina, A. S. Devaev (Simferopol, Crimea)The Mystery of Two Aquamaniles. X-ray Fluorescence Analysis of Alloys from the Feodosia Museum of Antiquities and the Central Museum of Taurida213
HISTORICAL SKETCHES
D. Tekayev (Turkmenabad, Turkmenistan)Narratives and Counterarguments: Narratives and Counterarguments: The Death of Toghrul III (1177—1194), the Last Sultan of the Seljuks of Iraq, in Muslim Historiography231A. V. Maiorov (Saint Petersburg, Russian Federation)“Directly under Tatar Rule”: The Establishment of Mongol Rule in Kiev and the Kievan Land243A. A. Porsin (Astana, Kazakhstan)Chagatai’s Policy towards Mawarannahr259
RESEARCH AND PUBLICATIONS
S. V. Lalazarov, S. A. Vasiliev, N. V. Grigoreva (Saint Petersburg, Russian Federation)The Church of St. Clement in Staraya Ladoga. An Analysis of the Architectural Features of the Monument Based on the Materials of Archaeological Research of the 19th–20th Centuries and New Exposures in 2023269F. N. Veselov (Saint Petersburg, Russian Federation)«…But the Church Walls Collapsed»: the Last Stronghold of Kiev Defense in 1240295
ARCHAEOLOGY OF IDEAS
K. V. Gorlov, M. S. Pavlova (Saint Petersburg, Russian Federation)Ancient Russian Heraldic Pendant from the Excavations of 2025 in Staraya Ladoga: Context, Technology, and Attribution307N. V. Zhilina (Moscow, Russian Federation)Old Russian Decorative Art from the Late Twelfth to the First Third of the Thirteenth Century: Mannerism and New Monumentality321
CRAFT TRAJECTORIES
u. V. Buchatskaya (Saint Petersburg, Russian Federation)A Craft Guild as Heritage. The Past and Present of the Bamberg Gardeners’ Craft341O. D. Fais-Leutskaia (Moscow, Russian Federation)Sardinian Jewelry Culture, Past and Present: On the Sustainability of Tradition355A. A. Novik (Saint Petersburg, Russian Federation)A Female Dynasty in a Male-Dominated Profession: Silver Filigree in Kosovo at the Turn of the Twenty-First Century367
ECO-SOCIAL RECONSTRUCTONS
S. Sh. Kubaev (Tashkent, Uzbekistan), A. M. Korzhenkov (Moscow, Russian Federation), D. Abdualimova (Tashkent, Uzbekistan), L. A. Korzhenkova (Moscow, Russian Federation)Geoarchaeology of Seismic Crises: Fifth- and Sixth-Century AD Earthquakes and the Transformation of Urban Centers in Chach and Sogd381T. V. Lobanova (Yekaterinburg, Russian Federation), O. V. Kardash (Surgut, Russian Federation)The Economy of Yamal’s Indigenous Population from the Thirteenth to the Mid- Fourteenth Century: Archaeological and Archaeozoological Evidence from the Bukhta Nakhodka Settlement397
REVIEWS
A. A. Romanchuk (Kishinev, Moldova)Ringforts of the Ekimautsy-Alchedar Type and the “Excess of Scandinavian Mania”411
DISCUSSIONS
L. V. Nikiforova (Saint Petersburg, Russian Federation)An Ethnographic Carnival in Miniature: a Catalogue of Anna Zhabreva’s “Peoples and Costumes” Collection437
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