CONTENTS
PALEOENVIRONMENT. THE STONE AGE
E.V. Bezrukova, D.G. Anderson, O.P. Vinkovskaya, A.V. Kharinsky, and N.V. Kulagina. Vegetation and Climate Changes in the Bolshoe Inyaptukskoe Lake Basin (North Baikal Plateau) in the Middle and Late Holocene p. 2 - 11.
L. Meignen. Levantine Perspectives on the Middle to Upper Paleolithic “Transition” p. 12 - 21.
K.V. Gunbin, D.A. Afonnikov, N.A. Kolchanov, and A.P. Derevianko. The Importance of Changes to microRNA in the Evolution of Homo Neanderthalensis and Homo Denisova p. 22 - 30.
Yu.S. Volkova. Upper Paleolithic Portable Art in Light of Ethnographic Studies p. 31 - 37.
THE METAL AGES AND MEDIEVAL PERIOD
V.I. Molodin, L.N. Mylnikova, I.A. Durakov, and L.S. Kobeleva. Statistical Analysis of Spatial Distribution of Ceramics from Late Bronze Age/Early Iron Age Sites in Southwestern Siberia p. 38 - 58.
Yu.F. Kiryushin, K.Yu. Kiryushin, A.V. Schmidt, and M.T. Abdulganeyev. Ornaments Made from Animal Teeth in Human Burials at Tuzovskiye Bugry-1 and their Relevance to Ethnic Processes in the Altai, 3rd Millennium BC p. 59 - 66.
Y.N. Esin. The Bronze Age Rock Art of Malye Arbaty p. 67 - 75.
Central Asia, Southern Siberia, Minusinsk Basin, Bronze Age, rock art, Okunev culture, Dzhoy style. A 2367-year Tree-Ring Chronology for the Altai–Sayan Region (Mongun-Taiga Mountain Massif) p. 76 - 83.
D. Schorkowitz. Cultural Contact and Cultural Transfer in Medieval Western Eurasia p. 84 - 94.
ETHNOLOGY
T.G. Emelyanenko. Camisoles in the Traditional Male Costume of the Bukharan Jews (Part of the History of Clothes Cut from Patterns in Western Central Asia) p. 95 - 102.
E.F. Fursova. Western Siberian Folk Art: Northern Russian and Ural Traditions in Distaff Decoration p. 103 - 113.
O.V. Maltseva. Ethnic and Cultural Aspects of Nanai Healing Ritual Sculptures p. 114 - 123.
A.N. Bagashev and R.Yu. Fedorov. Ethnic and Cultural Identity of the Belorussian Migrants in Western Siberia p. 124 - 129.
ANTHROPOLOGY
A.A. Movsessyan. Prehistoric and Recent Populations of Chukotka: A Paleophenetic Analysis p. 130 - 137.
A.Yu. Khudaverdyan. Armenia in the Eurasian Ethnic Context of Late Classical Antiquity: Craniometric Evidence p. 138 - 148.
M.L. Machicek and A.V. Zubova. Dental Wear Patterns and Subsistence Activities in Early Nomadic Pastoralist Communities of the Central Asian Steppes p. 149 - 157.
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