CONTENTS

PALEOENVIRONMENT. THE STONE AGE

G.D. Pavlenok and A.V. Zubova. New Dental Finds Associated with the Paleolithic Selenga Culture, Western Trans-Baikal Region p. 3 - 11.

V.I. Molodin, J.-M. Geneste, L.V. Zotkina, D.V. Cheremisin, and C. Cretin. The “Kalgutinsky” Style in the Rock Art of Central Asia p. 12 - 26.

THE METAL AGES AND MEDIEVAL PERIOD

S. Hansen. Technical and Social Innovations: A New Field of Research p. 27 - 37.

V.V. Tkachev. The Ishkinino Bronze Age Mining Complex in the Southern Urals: Radiocarbon Dating p. 38 - 47.

I.A. Durakov and L.S. Kobeleva. An Early Iron Age Foundry at Kargat-4, Southwestern Siberia p. 48 - 54.

A.Y. Trufanov and L.N. Mylnikova. Sibirskoye I: A Late Irmen Site on the Irtysh Steppe p. 55 - 67.

A.L. Nesterkina, E.A. Solovieva, and I.S. Gnezdilova. Cultural Interaction Patterns in the Bronze Age: Ritual Bronze Artifacts from Korea and Japan p. 68 - 73.

A.М. Murygin, P.А. Kosintsev, and Т.I. Marchenko-Vagapova. An Early Iron Age Camp of Reindeer Hunters in the Bolshezemelskaya Tundra, Nenets Autonomous Okrug p. 74 - 84.

V.I. Gulyaev. The Bear Cult and Kurgans of the Scythian Elite p. 85 - 93.

A.P. Zabiyako. An Early Jurchen Text Among Rock Representations Near the Arkhara River in the Amur Basin (History, Research Results, and New Evidence) p. 94 - 103.

ETHNOLOGY

A.V. Baulo. Evidence Relating to the Christian Missions in the Trans-Urals and Northwestern Siberia (8th to 16th Centuries) p. 104 - 110.

A.K. Salmin. Ivan Lepyokhin’s Expedition to the Middle Volga p. 111 - 118.

L.N. Shchankina. Mordvins in Western Siberia in the Late 19th to Early 20th Century: Certain Issues in the Migration and Settlement p. 119 - 126.

M.M. Boronova. The Buryats: Ethno-Social Development and Post-Soviet Transformations (Based on the 2017 Opinion Polls Among the Young People of Buryatia, the Irkutsk Region, and the Trans-Baikal Region) p. 127 - 135.

ANTHROPOLOGY AND PALEOGENETICS

E.B. Yatsishina, S.V. Vasilyev, S.B. Borutskaya, A.S. Nikitin, S.A. Nikitin, R.M. Galeev, S.I. Kartashov, V.L. Ushakov, O.A. Vasilieva, O.P. Dyuzheva, M.M. Novikov, and I.A. Chichaev. A Multidisciplinary Study of Egyptian Mummies from the Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts (Methodical Aspects) p. 136 - 144.

T.K. Fedotova and A.K. Gorbacheva. Secular Dynamics of Body Height and Weight in Russian Children Aged 0–17 p. 145 - 157.

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