CONTENTS

PALEOENVIRONMENT. THE STONE AGE

A.V. Kandyba, A.M. Chekha, Nguyen Gia Doi, Nguyen Khac Su, S.A. Gladyshev, and A.P. Derevianko. The Early Paleolithic Go Da Site and the Bifacial Lithic Industries of Southeast Asia p. 3 - 14.

A.P. Zabiyako and Wang Junzheng. Paleolithic Personal Ornaments from Xiaogushan Cave: The Formation of Early Symbolism and Its Regional Features in Northeast China p. 15 - 23.

I.Е. Dedov, Е.P. Kulakova, М.V. Shashkov, А.А. Zhdanov, Е.V. Parkhomchuk, Т. Chargynov, and S.V. Shnaider. A Multidisciplinary Study of Burnt Deposits at Surungur, Fergana Valley, Southern Kyrgyzstan p. 24 - 36.

THE METAL AGES AND MEDIEVAL PERIOD

A.P. Borodovsky. Handles of Early Iron Age Cauldrons from Southwestern Siberia p. 37 - 42.

N.V. Polosmak. The Pazyryk Style p. 43 - 56.

A.E. Astafyev and E.S. Bogdanov. Burial of a Hunnic Period Noblewoman at Karakabak, Mangystau, Kazakhstan p. 57 - 68.

O.A. Pozdnyakova, E.V. Balkov, P.G. Dyadkov, Z.V. Marchenko, A.E. Grishin, and N.D. Evmenov. Integrative Geophysical Studies at the Novaya Kurya-1 Cemetery in the Kulunda Steppe p. 69 - 79.

A.N. Babenko, M.V. Dobrovolskaya, E.E. Vasilyeva, and D.S. Korobov. Reconstructed Paleodiets and Subsistence Strategies of the Central Ciscaucasian Population (1000 BC to 1000 AD), Based on Collagen Isotope Analysis of Bone Samples from the Kichmalka II Burial Ground p. 80 - 90.

N.P. Matveeva, E.A. Tretyakov, and A.S. Zelenkov. Archaeological Evidence of Migration from the Southern Taiga of Western Siberia to the Urals in the Early Middle Ages: The Vodennikovo-1 Cemetery p. 91 - 99.

N.N. Seregin, V.V. Tishin, and N.F. Stepanova. Hephthalite Coin from an Early Medieval Burial at Gorny-10, Northern Altai p. 100 - 108.

ETHNOLOGY

S.E. Azhigali and L.R. Turganbayeva. Kainar: A Late 18th to Early 20th Century Ritual and Housing Complex in the Northern Ustyurt p. 109 - 119.

T.Y. Sem. Tungus-Manchu Traditional Beliefs. Part 2: Zoomorphic Complex p. 120 - 126.

V.V. Nikolaev and I.V. Oktyabrskaya. Urbanization of Indigenous Peoples of Siberia and the Far East (20th to Early 21st Centuries) p. 127 - 139.

ANTHROPOLOGY AND PALEOGENETICS

A.G. Kozintsev. Patterns in the Population History of Northern Eurasia from the Mesolithic to the Early Bronze Age, Based on Craniometry and Genetics p. 140 - 151.

PERSONALIA

Academician V.S. Myasnikov as Archaeologist and Ethnologist p. 152 - 153.

CONTRIBUTORS