CONTENTS

PALEOENVIRONMENT. THE STONE AGE

V.L. Kolomiets, S.A. Gladyshev, E.V. Bezrukova, E.P. Rybin, P.P. Letunova, and A.A. Abzaeva. Environment and Human Behavior in Northern Mongolia during the Upper Pleistocene p. 2 - 14.

G. Bar-Oz, A. Belfer-Cohen, T. Meshveliani, N. Jakeli, Z. Matskevich, and O. Bar-Yosef. Bear in Mind: Bear Hunting in the Mesolithic of the Southern Caucasus p. 15 - 24.

THE METAL AGES AND MEDIEVAL PERIOD

L.B. Kirtcho. L.B. Kirtcho. p. 25 - 33.

V.D. Kubarev. Two Bronze Age Steles in Gorny Altai p. 34 - 38.

T. Takeuchi, L.N. Mylnikova, S.P. Nesterov, N.A. Kulik, E.I. Derevianko, S.V. Alkin, and K. Nakamura. Electron Probe Microanalysis of the Paste from Ceramics of the Far East p. 39 - 51.

E.I. Narozhny and F.B. Narozhnaya. Eurasian Coins of the 13th century from the Northern Caucasus p. 52 - 61.

A.A. Karpukhin. Absolute Dendrochronological Scales of Archaeological Sites in European Russia p. 62 - 70.

M.I. Kulakova. A Dendrochronological Analysis of Wood from Pskov p. 71 - 76.

O.A. Tarabardina. Dendrochronological Studies of Medieval Novgorod (Based on the Findings of Archaeological Excavations 1991–2006) p. 77 - 84.

D.V. Cheremisin. On the Semantics of Animal Style Ornithomorphic Images in Pazyryk Ritual Artifacts p. 85 - 94.

ETHNOLOGY

A.V. Baulo. Treasures of the Sacred River p. 95 - 100.

A.A. Badmaev. Everyday Diet of the Buryats in the Late 19th and Early 20th Centuries p. 101 - 109.

D.G. Korovushkin. The Ethnic Environment of Diasporas in Western Siberia p. 110 - 117.

E.A. Volzhanina. Demography of the Siberian Nenets in the First Third of the 20th Century p. 118 - 128.

Modern Altai Crafts p. 129 - 135.

ANTHROPOLOGY

I.I. Gokhman and A.V. Gromov. Human Crania from the Tes Burial Ground, Kamenka III: The Analysis of Metric and Nonmetric Traits p. 136 - 145.

A.L. Purundzhan and I. Borovsky. Analysis of Temporal Anthropometric Changes in Various Groups of Israeli Males p. 146 - 150.

The International Conference on the Neolithic of the Sea of Japan Basin (Vladivostok, 17–18 March, 2008), dedicated to the centenary of the prominent Russian archaeologist Aleksey Pavlovich Okladnikov, was co-sponsored by academic institutions in Russia and Japan. The Conference addressed a wide range of archaeological issues including paleoenvironmental reconstruction, computer modeling, the potential of GIS technologies, and A.P. Okladnikov’s contribution to Far Eastern and world prehistory. p. 151 - 153.

PERSONALIA

Natalia Borisovna Chernykh p. 154 - 155.

Vladimir Pavlovich Mylnikov p. 156 - 157.

CONTRIBUTORS