CONTENTS

PALEOENVIRONMENT. THE STONE AGE

A.E. Matyukhin and T.V. Sapelko. Paleolithic Site Biryuchya Balka-2: Geology, Chronology, and Paleoecology p. 2 - 12.

S.G. Vasiliev and E.P. Rybin. Tolbaga: Upper Paleolithic Settlement Patterns in the Trans-Baikal Region p. 13 - 34.

A.A. Velichko, V.V. Pisareva, S.N. Sedov, A.A. Sinitsyn, and S.N. Timireva. Paleogeography of Kostenki-14 (Markina Gora) p. 35 - 50.

THE METAL AGES AND MEDIEVAL PERIOD

A.P. Borodovsky and E.L. Borodovskaya. Triquestrums of the Scythian Period in the Northern Altai p. 51 - 56.

V.A. Zakh and T.N. Glushkova. Woven Belts from Sargat Mound 7 at Chepkul-9 p. 57 - 66.

Y.F. Kiryushin and S.P. Grushin. Early and Middle Bronze Age Portable Art Pieces from the Forest-Steppe Zone of the Ob-Irtysh Region p. 67 - 75.

O.I. Goriunova and A.G. Novikov. Anthropomorphic, Zoomorphic, and Solar Symbolisms on Bronze Age Ceramics from the Western Baikal Region p. 76 - 82.

E.P. Matochkin. Petroglyphs on the Poperechnaya Krasnoyarka River p. 83 - 91.

ETHNOLOGY

D.V. Karnaukhov. Images of Eurasian Ethnicity in Works of Renaissance Polish Historians p. 92 - 99.

Yu.E. Berezkin. The Pleiades as Openings, the Milky Way as the Path of Birds, and the Girl in the Moon: Northern Eurasian Ethno-Cultural Links in the Mirror of Cosmonymy p. 100 - 113.

Felt Boot Rollers of the Altai p. 114 - 124.

ANTHROPOLOGY

A.G. Kozintsev. Craniometric Evidence of the Early Caucasoid Migrations to Siberia and Eastern Central Asia, with Reference to the Indo-European Problem p. 125 - 136.

G.A. Aksyanova. Principal Findings of the 20th-Century Population Studies in Tuva p. 137 - 145.

V.G. Moiseyev. On the Origin of the Ryukyu Islanders: The Integration of Craniometric and Cranial Nonmetric Data p. 146 - 152.

PERSONALIA

Anatoly Dmitrievich Pryakhin p. 153 - 155.

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