CONTENTS

PALEOENVIRONMENT. THE STONE AGE

N.S. Bolikhovskaya. Spatial and Temporal Regularities in the Evolution of Vegetation and Climate of North Eurasia in the Neopleistocene p. 2 - 28.

A.P. Derevianko and V.N. Zenin. Preliminary Results of Archaeological Studies at the Lower Paleolithic Site of Darvagchai- 1 in Dagestan p. 29 - 51.

A.V. Tabarev. On Oysters and Archaeologists (the Notion of ‘Aquaculture’ in Far Eastern Archaeology) p. 52 - 59.

THE METAL AGES AND MEDIEVAL PERIOD

E.I. Narozhny. Jurchen Artifacts from the Northern Caucasus p. 60 - 66.

T.N. Troitskaya, A.N. Savin, and O.V. Solodovskaya. Hollow Animal Figurines of the Verkhneobskaya Culture, the Novosibirsk Region p. 67 - 76.

E.S. Bogdanov and I.Y. Sljusarenko. Egyptian Faience Amulets from Gorny Altai p. 77 - 80.

V.N. Dobzhansky. Yenisei Kyrgyz “Forts” in the 17th Century: Historiographical Myth or Historical Reality? p. 81 - 90.

V.I. Molodin and D.V. Cheremisin. Petroglyphs of the Ukok Plateau p. 91 - 101.

ETHNOLOGY

A.N. Mukhareva. Camel Scenes in the Rock Art of the Minusinsk Basin p. 102 - 109.

Yu.E. Berezkin. “Earth-Diver” and “Emergence from under the Earth”: Cosmogonic Tales as Evidence in Favor of the Heterogenic Origins of the American Indians p. 110 - 123.

ANTHROPOLOGY

А.А. Lucidarskaya. Sorcery and Magic in the Life of Russian Colonists in Siberia in the 17th Century p. 124 - 129.

INFORMATION

T.A. Chikisheva, M.A. Gubina, I.V. Kulikov, T.M. Karafet, M.I. Voevoda, and A.G. Romaschenko. A Paleogenetic Study of the Prehistoric Populations of the Altai p. 130 - 142.

A.G. Kozintsev. Scythians of the North Pontic Region: Between-group Cranial Variation, Affi nities, and Origins p. 143 - 157.