CONTENTS
PALEOENVIRONMENT. THE STONE AGE
N.A. Rudaya, P.E. Tarasov, N.I. Dorofeyuk, I.A. Kalugin, A.A. Andreev, B. Diekmann, and A.V. Daryin. Environmental
Changes in the Mongolian Altai during the Holocene p. 2 - 14.
A.A. Vybornov. New Data on Radiocarbon Chronology of Neolithic Ceramics from the Volga-Kama Region p. 15 - 24.
THE METAL AGES AND MEDIEVAL PERIOD
V.S. Myglan, O.C. Oidupaa, A.V. Kirdyanov, and E.A. Vaganov. 1929 Year Tree-Ring Chronology for the Altai-Sayan
Region (Western Tuva) p. 25 - 31.
S.P. Nesterov, I.A. Durakov, and O.A. Shelomikhin. Early Urilsky Culture Assemblage from Bukinsky Kluch, Bureya
River p. 32 - 42.
A.Y. Borisenko and Y.S. Hudiakov. Representations of Warriors on Early Medieval Turkic Bronze Plaques from Eastern
Central Asia p. 43 - 53.
G.M. Burov. New Categories of Wooden Artifacts of the Mid 1st Millennium AD from the site of Vis II (Vychegda Basin) p. 54 - 62.
N.V. Polosmak, E.S. Bogdanov, D. Tseveendorj, and N. Erdene-Ochir. The Han Chariot from Noin Ula Mound 20
(Mongolia) p. 63 - 69.
A.P. Borodovsky and S.V. Gorokhov. Defense Constructions of Fort Umrevinsky (Based on 2002–2004 Archaeological
Excavations) p. 70 - 82.
A.E. Rogozhinsky. Petroglyph Sites of Kazakhstan and Western Central Asia as Part of the Archaeological Landscape:
New Challenges p. 83 - 94.
ETHNOLOGY
E.F. Fursova. Zoomorphic Images in Eastern Slavic Embroidery of Southwestern Siberia p. 95 - 106.
New Ethnic Holidays in the Sayan-Altai p. 107 - 119.
ANTHROPOLOGY
T.A. Chikisheva. The Origin of the Early Nomadic Populations of Tuva: Craniometrical Evidence p. 120 - 139.
A.G. Kozintsev. The “Mediterraneans” of Southern Siberia and Kazakhstan, Indo-European Migrations, and the Origin of
the Scythians: A Multivariate Craniometric Analysis p. 140 - 144.
M.N. Kandinov, M.B. Mednikova, M.V. Dobrovolskaya, and A.P. Buzhilova. Human Humerus from Khoroshevsky
Island: History and Context p. 145 - 150.
PERSONALIA
Aleksey Pavlovich Okladnikov p. 151 - 152.
Tatiana Ivanovna Alekseyeva p. 153 - 155.
Eugenia Ivanovna Derevianko p. 156 - 157.