CONTENTS

PALEOENVIRONMENT. THE STONE AGE

P. Skrdla The Bohunician in Moravia and Adjoining Regions p. 2 - 13.

A.V. Tabarev, J.C. Gillam, Y. Kanomata, and B. Gunchinsuren. A Paleolithic Cache at Tolbor (Northern Mongolia) p. 14 - 21.

L.V. Lbova, P.V. Volkov, D.V. Kozhevnikova, and L.V. Kulakovskaya. Upper Paleolithic “Sounding Artifacts” from Mesin, Ukraine: Modifi cation Marks p. 22 - 32.

Y.S. Volkova. An Experimental Technological Study of Upper Paleolithic Kostenki-Type Figurines p. 33 - 39.

I.D. Zolnikov, A.V. Postnov, V.A. Lyamina, V.S. Slavinski, and D.A. Chupina. Geoinformation Modeling of Environments Favorable for Prehistoric Humans of the Altai Mountains p. 40 - 47.

C. Lemmen. Mechanisms Shaping the Transition to Farming in Europe and the North American Woodland p. 48 - 58.

THE METAL AGES AND MEDIEVAL PERIOD

N.B. Vinogradov and N.A. Berseneva. Intramural Burials of Children at Bronze Age Sites in the Southern Urals (Early 2nd Millennium BC) p. 59 - 67.

N.M. Chairkina. Clay Plates with Stylized Ornithomorphic Representations from Section VI of the Gorbunovo Peat Bog p. 68 - 80.

Y.S. Hudiakov, K.Sh. Tabaldiev, A.Y. Borisenko, and K.T. Akmatov. Composite Bows from Uch-Kurbu in Kyrgyzstan p. 81 - 86.

A.M. Yuminov, V.V. Zaykov, V.F.Korobkov, and V.V. Tkachev. Bronze Age Copper Mining in the Mugodzhary p. 87 - 96.

ETHNOLOGY

A.V. Baulo. An Ongoing Tradition: The Use of Russian Metal Dishware in Ob Ugrian Rites p. 97 - 106.

N.I. Shutova. The Spring Festival of Akaska / Bidzim Nunal Celebrated by the Southern Udmurts in the Late 19th–Early 20th Century p. 107 - 111.

A.K. Salmin. The Iranian Chapter in the History of the Chuvash p. 112 - 119.

ANTHROPOLOGY

M.B. Mednikova, M.V. Dobrovolskaya, B. Viola, A.V. Lavrenyuk, P.R. Kazansky, V.Y. Shklover, M.V. Shunkov, and A.P. Derevianko. A Micro Computerized Tomography (X-Ray Microscopy) of the Hand Phalanx of the Denisova Girl p. 120 - 125.

S.A. Lacy and E. Trinkaus. The Foramina Transversaria of the Sunghir 2 and 3 Cervical Vertebrae p. 126 - 131.

A.V. Zubova. Dental Affi nities of the Irmen People, Western Siberia p. 132 - 139.

H. Dabernat, T.M. Reis, A.Yu. Tarasov, I.P. Artyukhov, V.G. Nikolaev, N.N. Medvedeva, O.A. Gavrilyuk, M.V. Nikolaev, and E. Crubezy. Paleopathology of the Population of Krasnoyarsk, Central Siberia (Pokrovskiy and Voskresensko-Preobrazhenskiy Cemeteries of the 17th– Early 20th Centuries) p. 140 - 150.

INFORMATION

International Symposium “Pottery in the Food Culture of the Peoples of the World” p. 151 - 154.

Rangifer Domus: Seminar in Severobaikalsk, July 6–9, 2012 p. 155 - 156.

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