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FROM MILITIA TO PROFESSIONAL ARMY
M. M. Kazanski (Paris, France)On the Military Organization of the Slavs in the 5th—7th Centuries: Leaders, Professional Warriors and Archaeological Data17V. I. Kulakov (Moscow, Russian Federation)Tactics and Techniques of Prussian Combat31
WAR AND SOCIETY
A. A. Romensky (Sevastopol, Crimea)“I Want to Come at You”: Military Ethos and Ritual-Symbolic Perception of Warfare in Premongol Rus’39N. N. Seregin (Barnaul, Russian Federation)Warrior Status in the Society of Early Medieval Turks of Central Asia: the Interpretation of Archaeological Materials53O. V. Diakova (Vladivostok, Russian Federation)The Military-Administrative System of the Jurchen State and Dong Xia as a Prototype of the “Eight-Banner Army of the Manchus (according to written and archaeological sources)69
THE MARTIAL RUSSIA
K. A. Mikhailov, A. A. Peskova (Saint Petersburg, Russian Federation)“Knight at the Gate” or Reconstruction of a Military Complex from the Excavations of the Great Shepetovka Settlement77E. A. Shinakov (Bryansk, Russian Federation), V. V. Minenko (Moscow, Russian Federation)Retinue’s Equipment and Household Items (“Culture of Everyday Life”) in Old Russian Vshchizh93V. Yu. Sobolev (Saint Petersburg, Russian Federation)Lance and Axe: Weapons in the Medieval Burial Customs of the Western Part of the Novgorod Land113A. S. Shchavelev (Moscow, Russian Federation)The Vessels and War-Naval Activities of People Named Rus’ in the 9th — mid. 10th centuries (According to the Basic Synchronous Written Sources)123
— TOUT BEAU, DIT LE FER, JE T’ARRÊTE;TOUT EST À MOI, CAR JE LE PRENDS
I. R. Akhmedov (Saint Petersburg, Russian Federation)The “Turkic” Reflection in the Oka River Region? The Sword with Ring-pommel from the Shoksha Burial Ground133L. F. Nedashkovsky, M. B. Shigapov (Kazan, Russian Federation)Arms and Horse Equipment from Bagaevka Settlement167A. V. Mastykova (Moscow, Russian Federation), E. I. Seydaliev (Simferopol, Crimea)Medieval Weapons from the Excavations of the Settlement and the Burial Ground of Su-Bash-1 in Eastern Crimea179
AESTHETICS OF MILITARY CULTURE
V. S. Aksonov (Kharkiv, Ukraine)Elite Horse Attire of the Forest Steppe Variant of the Saltov-Mayaki Population: Diversity in Unity193O. V. Komar (Kiev, Ukraine), T. I. Shelemetieva (Zaporizhzhya, Ukraine)A Set of the Pecheneg Harness Ornaments from the Find in Vicinity of Balky Village209S. S. Ryabtseva (†)Helmet or Hat? On the Finds of Silver Cone-shaped Tops of Headdresses in Archaeological Sites of the 10th—14th Centuries225O. A. Mitko (Novosibirsk, Russian Federation)Inscriptions on Medieval Broadswords and Sabers Yenisei Kyrgyz233
ANTHROPOLOGY OF MILITARY ARCHITECTURE
V. I. Baranov (Kiev, Ukraine), D. D. Jolshin (Saint Petersburg, Russian Federation)The Wall of the Princely Residence in Kiev and the Question of the Origin of the Mud-Brick Fortification in 10th Century Kievan Rus’243I. V. Antipov (Saint Petersburg, Russian Federation)Stone Defensive Structures of the Old Rus’ (Second Half of the 13th — Mid 14th Centuries): the Main Results and Problems of Studies267I. V. Stasyuk (Saint Petersburg, Russian Federation)Votia’s Medieval Hillforts283
A NEW HOMELAND GAINED
P. E. Sorokin (Saint Petersburg, Russian Federation)The Structure and Origin of the Landskrona Fortress on the Neva303M. V. Kvitnytskyi (Tiraspol, Moldova), N. P. Telnov (Kishinev, Moldova), S. D. Lysenko
(Kiev, Ukraine), S. N. Razumov, V. S. Sinika (Tiraspol, Moldova)Ancient Hungarian Grave of a Warrior on the Left Bank of the Lower Dniester317M. M. Fokeev (Odessa, Ukraine), M. V. Kvitnytskyi (Tiraspol, Moldova), N. P. Telnov
(Kishinev, Moldova), S. D. Lysenko (Kiev, Ukraine), S. N. Razumov, V. S. Sinika
(Tiraspol, Moldova)Nomadic Grave on the Left Bank of the Lower Danube in the Context of Studying the Culture of the Ancient Hungarians333O. B. Bubenok (Kiev, Ukraine)The Circassian Warriors on the Border of Juchi Ulus in the Middle Dnieper Basin343
RESEARCH AND PUBLICATIONS
O. V. Orfinskaya, E. G. Tolmacheva (Moscow, Russian Federation)A War of Technology, Adaptation or Adoption in a Textile Tradition? To the Question of the Consequences of the Sassanid Conquest of Egypt357A. A. Romanchuk (Kishinev, Moldova)“Coffins without Bottom” of the Vlachs and Lattice Coffins of the Great Eurasian Steppe: to the Issue of the Vlachs’ Origin375
REVIEWS AND PRESENTATIONS
E. R. Mikhaylova (Saint Petersburg, Russian Federation)Old Russian Cities in the Viking Age. New Books on a Long-standing Problem Free!383L. S. Klejn (Saint Petersburg, Russian Federation)Time Travels and Archaeology of Radical Constructivism (Petersson B. and Holtorf C. (eds.). 2017. Archaeology of time travel. Experiencing the past in the 21st century. Oxford: Archaeopress. VIII + 318 p. Illustr. colour and black-and-white... Free!395R. A. Rabinovich (Kishinev, Moldova)Above the Battle. Book presentation: Stamati Iu. 2019. The Slavic Dossier. Medieval Archaeology in the Soviet Republic of Moldova: Between State Propaganda and Scholarly Endeavor. Serie East Central and Eastern Europe in the Middle Ages, 450—1450, vo Free!401
AD MEMORIAM
N. P. Telnov (Kishinev, Moldova)On Isaac A. Rafalovich’s 90th Birthday Anniversary Free!409
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
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