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AD MEMORIAM
EditorialRusse’s Danubian Elegy. To the Memory of the Researcher Free!15
SIGNS OF TIME
E. A. Solovyeva, A. L. Nesterkina, I. S. Gnezdilova (Novosibirsk, Russian Federation)Drawings on Ceramics in Ancient Japan and Ancient Korea: Motifs, Compositions, Interpretation Russe’s Danubian Elegy. To the Memory of the Researcher21F.V. Shelov-Kovedyaev (Moscow, Russian Federation)The Oreios’ Letter from Myrmekion35A. V. Kovalchuk (Moscow, Russian Federation)Rhodian Amphora Stamps from the Settlement of Generalskoe-Zapadnoe41V. I. Kac.Imaginary and Genuine ‘Pseudo-Heraclean’ Stamps Free!53S. A. Komissarov, A. I. Soloviev, M. A. Kudinova (Novosibirsk, Russian Federation)Bronzes of Dian and Seals of Han71N. I. Vinokurov, S. A. Yatsenko (Moscow, Russian Federation), M. M. Choref (Nizhnevartovsk, Russian Federation)Tamga Series on a Vessel from Artezian Hillfort: Context of the Artifact83D. V. Abramov, O. V. Danilov (Vladimir, Russian Federation)New Image of the Ruriks’ Emblem Discovered in Graffiti on the Walls of the Golden Gate in Vladimir95
HARD FLOWERS OF THE MIDDLE AGES
P. N. Petrov (Nizhny Novgorod, Russian Federation), U. T. Akhmetova, M. S. Kasenov (Atyrau, Kazakhstan), N. H. Bikkinyaev (Volzhsky, Russian Federation)Finds of the 13th—14th Centuries Coins on the Caravan Routes of Saraijuq103
CRIMEAN ETUDES
V. P. Kirilko (Simferopol, Crimea)The Reverse Side of the Detail: Stone Sculpture of the Theodorites in the 15th Century119
RESEARCH AND PUBLICATIONS
N. N. Kradin (Vladivostok, Russian Federation)World-System Analysis and the Dynamics of Ancient and Medieval Societies141M. A. Lebedev (Moscow, Russian Federation)Management of the External Resource Base by the Old Kingdom Egyptian State: the Issue of Reconciling Written and Archaeological Sources155M. I. Nikolaev (Nikolaev, Ukraine)Common and Special in the Eponymous Traditions of Rhodes, Miletus and Olbia Pontica173D. O. Gimranov, M. S. Shchur (Yekaterinburg, Russian Federation). S. N. Razumov, V. S. Sinika (Tiraspol, Moldova)Cat’s Grave of the Golden Horde Time in a Kurgan on the Left Bank of the Lower Dniester Free!185L. V. Tataurova, K. O. Sopova (Omsk, Russian Federation)Russian Ceramics of the Tara Irtysh Region in the 17th—18th Centuries: from Typology to Chronology197
CLIO’S COMPANIONS
S. B. Borutskaya, S. Yu. Frizen, S. V. Vasilyev (Moscow, Russian Federation)Paleodemographic Study of the Zmeysky Medieval Burial Ground (North Ossetia)211V. F. Kashibadze (Rostov-on-Don, Russian Federation), O. G. Kashibadze (Nizhny Arkhyz, Russian Federation)The Population of the Lower Don Region in the Early Iron Age and Its Location on Phenegeographical Maps of Eastern Europe: A Dental Study223N. A. Leibova (Moscow, Russian Federation), U. B. Gadiev (Nazran, Russian Federation)Nonmetric Dental Traits in the Medieval Ingush Population (Based on Materials from the Tsori Crypt)231
ECOLOGICAL AND ANTHROPOLOGICAL INDICATORS OF EPOCHS
S. M. Slepchenko (Tyumen, Russian Federation), A. M. Butyagin (Saint Petersburg, Russian Federation), S. N. Ivanov (Tyumen, Russian Federation), A. V. Khrustalev (Moscow, Russian Federation), V. P. Kolosov, N. M. Milikhina (Saint Petersburg, Russian Federation)Results of the Archaeoparasitological Study of the Roman Settlement of Myrmekion243A. N. Babenko, A. S. Aleshinskaya, A. Yu. Sergeev (Moscow, Russian Federation), D. V. Vlasov (Yaroslavl, Russian Federation)Archaeobiological Research of the Moscow Kremlin Cultural Layer of the 14th — Early 15th Centuries (Taynitsky Garden)255
“SUMMA TECHNOLOGIARUM”
S. F. Tataurov, L. V. Tataurova, F. S. Tataurov (Omsk, Russian Federation)“Like the Lock, Like the Key”. Locking Mechanisms of the 17th—19th Centuries from the Russian Archaeological Sites of the Tara Irtysh Region283
CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY
D. Dawson (Greensboro, North Carolina, USA)The Origins of War: Biological and Anthropological Theories Free!297A. A. Banshchikova, V. N. Bryndina, O. V. Ivanchenko (Moscow, Russian Federation)From “Noble Cavaliers” to “The Plague of Africa”: Comparative Perception of the Arab Population of Tanganyika by the British and Germans and the Factor of the Colonial Agenda325
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
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