CONTENTS

PALEOENVIRONMENT. THE STONE AGE

N.S. Bolikhovskaya and M.V. Shunkov. A Climatostratigraphy of Pleistocene Deposits in the East Chamber of Denisova Cave p. 3 - 15.

А.V. Tetenkin. Variation of Lithic Assemblages and Lithic Technologies at Late Upper Paleolithic Horizons 6–2Б of Kovrizhka IV, the Lower Vitim p. 16 - 24.

K.M. Andreev, P.N. Menshanov, and E.V. Parkhomchuk. An Absolute Chronology of Mesolithic Sites of the Volga Forest-Steppe p. 25 - 33.

THE METAL AGES AND MEDIEVAL PERIOD

P.A. Frikke, E.R. Usmanova, and P.A. Kosintsev. Dogs in Funerary Practices of Bronze Age Populations of the Ural-Kazakhstan Steppes: The Case of Sintashta p. 34 - 43.

Z.V. Marchenko, S.P. Grushin, M.S. Kishkurno, and A.E. Grishin. Karasuk People in the Aley Steppe p. 44 - 53.

N.N. Kashirskaya, T.E. Khomutova, E.V. Chernysheva, K.S. Dushchanova, D.A. Yurshenas, M.S. Hmayakyan, N.G. Tiratsyan, and S.G. Hmayakyan. A Microbiological Study of the Content of Vessels from a 6th Century BC Burial at Nor Armavir, Armenia p. 54 - 64.

Kim Jae Youn. The Ondol Heating Systems in Dwellings on Neukdo Island, Korea, and at the Krounovka Sites in Primorye, Russia (300–100 BC) p. 65 - 72.

N.P. Matveeva and A.S. Yakimov. Archaeological and Pedological Studies of the Ust-Tersyuk Fortifi cations, Forest-Steppe Trans-Urals p. 73 - 82.

P.V. Volkov and O.A. Mitko. The Technological Analysis of Earrings from a Burial with a Horse Skin at the Koybaly Cemetery, Khakassia p. 83 - 90.

A.V. Pachkalov. Coins from the Taskeshu Caravanserai p. 91 - 97.

P.V. Ishutina and D.N. Lysenko. Archaeological Sites Under the System of Governmental Audit of Cultural Heritage: The Case of Krasnoyarsk p. 98 - 105.

M.O. Filatova, V.S. Myglan, Z.Y. Zharnikov, A.V. Tainik, N.V. Rygalova, I.L. Vakhnina, and V.V. Barinov. Possibilities and Limitations of Dendrochronological Dating: The Case of Historical Wooden Buildings in the Novosibirsk Region p. 106 - 115.

ETHNOLOGY

M.M. Sodnompilova. From Hare Skin to Silk Scrap: The Origin and Evolution of the Symbolic Design of Traditional Buryat Ritual Practices p. 116 - 124.

K.N. Tikhomirov and M.N. Tikhomirova. Settlement Pattern of Siberian Tatars and Bokharans of the Irtysh-Osha Interfl uve in the 18th to Mid-19th Centuries p. 125 - 133.

ANTHROPOLOGY AND PALEOGENETICS

M.S. Kishkurno, V.V. Alekseitseva, and S.V. Zhilich. Diet of the Early Iron Age People in the Novosibirsk Stretch of the Ob: A Case Study from the Bystrovka Burial Ground p. 134 - 142.

A.G. Kozintsev. Uralians and Yeniseians: The Dialog Between Craniometry and Genomics p. 143 - 153.

PERSONALIA

To the 70th Anniversary of John W. Olsen, the Honorary Doctor of the Institute of Archaeology and Ethnography SB RAS p. 154 - 156.

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