CONTENTS

PALEOENVIRONMENT. THE STONE AGE

V.E. Medvedev and I.V. Filatova. A Multidisciplinary Study of Finds from Suchu Island (1973 Season, Excavation II, Dwelling 1) p. 3 - 13.

N.L. Morgunova. A Zoomorphic Antler Staff from an Early Neolithic Burial at Pushkinsky, the Orenburg Region p. 14 - 21.

THE METAL AGES AND MEDIEVAL PERIOD

P.P. Gasymov. Cultural Attribution of Early Bronze Age Tombs Under Kurgans in Azerbaijan p. 22 - 28.

S.N. Korenevskiy and A.I. Yudin. Two Rare Finds from the Maikop-Novosvobodnaya Sites in the Black Sea Region p. 29 - 37.

O.S. Khokhlova and A.O. Nagler. The Marfa Kurgan in the Stavropol Territory: An Example of an Ancient Architectural Structure p. 38 - 48.

I.V. Chechushkov, A.A. Ovsyannikov, and E.R. Usmanova. On the Earliest Use of Plate-Formed Cheekpieces and the Emergence of Horse Riding (Based on Finds from the Novoilyinovskiy II Cemetery in Northern Kazakhstan) p. 49 - 58.

I.S. Gnezdilova, A.L. Nesterkina, E.A. Solovyeva, and A.I. Solovyev. Wooden Constructions in Bronze and Iron Age Burials in Japan and Korea p. 59 - 68.

A.A. Malyshev and V.S. Batchenko. The Southeastern Sindica Frontier: The Raevskoye Fortifi ed Settlement p. 69 - 79.

A.Е. Astafyev and E.S. Bogdanov. Polychrome Style in Mangystau, Kazakhstan p. 80 - 88.

K.A. Rudenko and A.V. Baulo. Metal Artifacts from a Newly Discovered Cemetery in the Severnaya Sosva Basin, Northwestern Siberia p. 89 - 96.

ETHNOLOGY

L.A. Belyaev and Y. Tchekhanovets. The Ethnoarchaeology of Russians in the Syro-Palestinian Region (18th–19th Centuries) p. 97 - 105.

A.A. Badmaev. Traditional Buryat Beliefs About Birds p. 106 - 113.

M.A. Ryblova. Bridal Symbols in the Don Cossack Wedding p. 114 - 121.

A.M. Malikov. Celebration of Nowruz in Bukhara and Samarkand in Ritual Practice and Social Discourses (the Second Half of the 19th to Early 20th Centuries) p. 122 - 129.

I.V. Balyunov. Architectural and Archaeological Studies in the Tobolsk Kremlin During the 1950s (Based on Photographic Documents at the Tobolsk Museum-Reserve) p. 130 - 139.

ANTHROPOLOGY AND PALEOGENETICS

E.V. Pererva, N.Y. Berezina, and M.V. Krivosheev. Trepanations in Sauromato-Sarmatian Crania from the Lower Volga p. 140 - 148.

A.V. Zubova, O.L. Pikhur, A.V. Obodovskiy, A.A. Malyutina, L.M. Dmitrenko, K.S. Chugunova, D.V. Pozdnyakov, and V.B. Bessonov. A Case of Surgical Extraction of the Lower Third Molars in a Cranial Series from the Pucara de Tilcara Fortress (Jujuy Province, Argentina) p. 149 - 156.

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