CONTENTS
PALEOENVIRONMENT. THE STONE AGE
V.S. Mosin and V.Y. Nikolsky. Siliceous Rock of the Southern Urals: Distribution and Usage in the Stone Age p. 2 - 9.
A.A. Vasilevski, V.A. Grischenko, and L.A. Orlova. Periods, Boundaries, and Contact Zones in the Far Eastern Insular
World of the Neolithic (Based on the Radiocarbon Chronology of Sites on the Sakhalin and Kuril Islands) p. 10 - 25.
V.A. Rakov and D.L. Brodianski. Oyster Cultivation and Archaeology as Producing Activities p. 26 - 31.
THE METAL AGES AND MEDIEVAL PERIOD
A.D. Stepanov. Early Iron Age Dyupsya Burial, Central Yakutia p. 32 - 36.
V.V. Zaykov, E.V. Zaykova, and V.A. Kotlyarov. The “Osmium Trace” in Mineral Inclusions in Ancient Gold Artifacts p. 37 - 43.
S.P. Kovtun. Social Structure of the Early Medieval Population in the Upper Kama Region (Based on Evidence from the
Nevolino Burial Sites of the 4th–9th Centuries) p. 44 - 52.
Y.S. Hudiakov and N. Erdene-Ochir. Bronze Helmet Recently Discovered in Mongolia p. 53 - 60.
O.V. Kardash. The Matchmaker’s Staffs from Fort Nadym of the 17th–18th Centuries p. 61 - 71.
V.S. Myglan, I.Y. Slusarenko, and A.Y. Mainicheva. Dendrochronological Survey of the Towers from the Kazym
Ostrog p. 72 - 77.
V.I. Voronin. Dendrochronological Dating of the Groundsill for the Bell Tower of the Spasskaya Church in Irkutsk p. 78 - 82.
ETHNOLOGY
G.T. Bakieva. Marriages among the Tobol-Irtysh Tatars in the Late 18th – Early 20th Centuries p. 83 - 90.
The Altai Cossacks in the 18th – Early 20th Centuries
ANTHROPOL p. 91 - 101.
ANTHROPOLOGY
M.B. Mednikova, M.V. Dobrovolskaya, A.P. Buzhilova, and M.N. Kandinov. A Fossil Human Humerus from Khvalynsk:
Morphology and Taxonomy p. 102 - 117.
N.A. Avanesova, N.A. Dubova, and V.V. Kufterin. Skeletal Remains from Buston VI – a Sapalli Culture Cemetery in
Uzbekistan p. 118 - 137.
V.I. Khartanovich and I.G. Shirobokov. New Craniometric Evidence on the Origin of the Karelians (the Kylalahti
Kalmistomäki Burial Ground) p. 138 - 147.
A.A. Kazarnitsky. The Maikop Crania Revisited p. 148 - 155.
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