CONTENTS

PALEOENVIRONMENT. THE STONE AGE

M.V. Shunkov, A.Y. Fedorchenko, and M.B. Kozlikin. Early Upper Paleolithic Tubular Beads from the Main Chamber of Denisova Cave p. 3 - 14.

A.M. Kuznetsov, D.N. Molchanov, and S.A. Kogai. Stoilo—A Paleolithic Site in the Southern Angara Region, Siberia p. 15 - 24.

A.V. Kandyba, L.V. Zotkina, S.E. Grigoriev , S.E. Fedorov, M.Y. Cheprasov, G.P. Novgorodov, A.V. Petrozhitskiy, D.V. Kuleshov, and V.V. Parkhomchuk. Stone Age Ivory Points from the Arctic Zone of Northeast Asia p. 25 - 34.

Y. Maigrot, A.N. Mazurkevich, and E.V. Dolbunova. An Early Neolithic Bone and Antler Industry of Rakushechny Yar on the Lower Don: Technological Strategies and Functional Context p. 35 - 44.

M.N. Farajova. Rock Art of the Ana Zaga Cave Shelter in the Archaeological Landscape of Gobustan, Azerbaijan p. 45 - 54.

А.N. Popov and А.V. Tabarev. The Russian Archaeological Project in South America: Principal Findings and Prospects p. 55 - 64.

THE METAL AGES AND MEDIEVAL PERIOD

V.I. Molodin, D.V. Cheremisin, Y.N. Nenakhova, and N. Batbold. Chronology of Rock Art of the Russian and Mongolian Altai: From the Paleolithic to the Late Middle Ages p. 65 - 77.

V.E. Medvedev. Lobed Ware in the Far East from the Neolithic to the Middle Ages p. 78 - 85.

V.P. Mylnikov, N.M. Chairkina, and S. Reinhold. Wooden Paddles from the Nizhny Tagil Museum-Reserve of Mining and Metallurgy in the Urals p. 86 - 95.

S.P. Nesterov. Spatial Distribution of Finds on the Eastern Outskirts of Poltse I, the Amur Region p. 96 - 104.

N.Y. Sipkina, A.A. Bukatov, and D.I. Sipkin. Contents of an Early Byzantine Amphora from Kruglaya Bay, the Black Sea p. 105 - 113.

S.G. Skobelev. Shift of the Yenisei and Abakan Beds as Reasons for Constructing the Second Abakan Fort in 1707 p. 114 - 118.

ETHNOLOGY

A.A. Badmaev. Corvids in the Buryat Traditional Worldview p. 119 - 125.

T.I. Dronova. The Old Believers’ Churchyard: Semiotics of Cultural Space (The Case of the Ust-Tsilma Old Believers-Bespopovtsy in the Komi Republic) p. 126 - 134.

ANTHROPOLOGY AND PALEOGENETICS

A.V. Zubova, O.L. Pikhur, V.G. Moiseyev, A.A. Malyutina, A.V. Obodovskiy, and O.A. Kalmina. A Case of Surgical Treatment of Lower Molars in a Mesolithic Sample from a Cemetery on the Yuzhny Oleniy Ostrov, Karelia, Russia p. 135 - 141.

A.G. Kozintsev. Origin of the Andronovans: A Statistical Approach p. 142 - 151.

PERSONALIA

Vladimir Pavlovich Mylnikov (in Honor of his 75th Birthday) p. 152 - 153.

CONTRIBUTORS