Archaeological news. Vol. 12. SPb. 2005.

EDITORIAL

• E. N. Nosov. To the 60th anniversary of the Victory Day.
• R. V. Vasil?eva. «Tired to Wander. Time to Return Home…»
• Our Jubilees:
  To the 80th Anniversary Zoya А. Abramova, Lev M. Tarasov.
  To the 70th Anniversary Galina V. Grigor'eva, Valentina I. Raspopova,
  Nikolai K. Anisyutkin

NEW DISCOVERIES AND STUDIES

• G. V. Grigoryeva. Planigraphy of Clothing Beads from the Upper Palaeolithic Site of Yudinovo (Excavations of 1988-1990, 1995-1997, 2000-2003)
• A. E. Matyukhin. Late Palaeolithic Industries with Bifacial Points from the Seversky Donets Valley
• I. S. Zhushchikhovskaya. The Moulding Technology in Prehistoric Pottery-Making in the Russian Far East
• A. N. Yegor'kov, E. I. Gak, N. I. Shishlina. Composition of Metal of the Bronze Age from Kalmykia
• A. M. Novichikhin. A Bronze Klevets from the Village of Gostagaevskaya.
• M. A. Strel'nik, M. A. Khomchik. Ancient Spindles from the Northern Black Sea Littoral (on the Basis of Materials from the National Museum of the History of Ukraine).
• A. I. Torgoev. A Heraldic Belt from the Upper Talas
• B. B. Ovchinnikova. «On the Ancient Banks of the Irtysh River» (Excavations of the Ural Archaeological Expedition).
• I. I. Yeremeev. The Portage «from the Top of the Dnieper to the Lovat River» and the Varangians.
• O. M. Havrylyuk, M. O. Yahodynskaya. Ancient Russian Objects of the Christian Cult from Western Podillya and South-Western Volyn.
• V. G. Putsko. A Group of Stone Icons of the Throned Saviour
• A. I. Murashkin. Archaeological sites of Kola Peninsula and the Problem of Saami Ethnogenesis
• A. A. Abdurazakov, B. Boliev. Investigations of the Chemical Composition
  of Building and Decorative Materials in Uzbekistan
• E. K. Kublo, L. L. Leont’ev, M. I. Kolosova, L.V. Kokutsa. Investigation of Properties of Archaeological Wood and Problems of Conservation.

TOPICAL PROBLEMS OF ARCHAEOLOGY

• V. M. Masson. Ancient Societies of the Steppes of Eurasia and the Structure of the World History
• T. V. Kornienko. Cult Buildings in Northern Mesopotamia in the Pre-Ceramic Neolithic Epoch
• Yu. G. Kutimov. Steppe Elements in the Funerary Rites at the Cemetery of Zamanbaba
• (the Problem of the Origins and Chronology of the Bronze Age Zamanbaba Culture in Central Asia)
• Pia Guldager Bilde. What was Scythian about the «Scythian Diana» in Nemus Aricinum?
• Yu. A. Vinogradov, I. Yu. Shaub. The Semantics of Representations on Gold Staters of Panticapaeum

REVIEW ARTICLES AND BOOK REVIEWS

• The Mesa Site: Paleoindians above the Arctic Circle. M. Kunz, M. Bever, C. Adkins. BLM-Alaska Open File Report, № 86. VI + 81 pages, 39 figures. 2003. Anchorage: US Department of Interior. (Rev. by Sergey A. Vasil'ev)
• The Early Upper Paleolithic beyond Western Europe. P. J. Brantingham, S. L. Kuhn, K. W. Kerry (Eds.). 295 pages. 2004. Berkeley: California University Press. (Rev. by Sergey A. Vasil'ev)
• South-eastern Estonia in the Iron Age. Silvia Laul. Rauaaja kultuuri kujunemine Eesti kaguosas (500 e. Kr. – 500 p. Kr.). 278 lk., 77 joon. Muinasaja teadus 9. Opetatud Eesti Seltsi Kirjad 7. 2001. Tallinn. (Rev. By N. V. Khvoshchinskaya).
• History of Footwear in Scandinavia and East European parallels. June Swann. History of Footwear in Norway, Sweden and Finland. Prehistory to 1950. P. 357, fig. 443. 2001. Stockholm. (Rev. by A. V. Kurbatov)
• Byzantine Province: Transplantation or Reception? A New Book on Ancient Russian Encolpions. N. F. Korzukhina, A. A. Peskova. Ancient Russian Encolpions. Crosses-Reliquaries of the 11th–13t Centuries. 432 p. 159 pl. 2003. St.-Petersburg: Peterburgskoe vostokovedenie (Rev. by A. E. Musin).

THE ORGANIZATION OF SCIENCE

• S. A. Skoryi. The 60th Anniversary of the Department of Scytho-Sarmatian Archaeology of the Institute of Archaeology, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine: History, Results, Perspectives

THE EAST-WEST COOPERATION

• N. Yu. Smirnov. Well-timed Archaeology (The Experience of European Science Building). (Greece, Athens, October 5-9, 2004).
• G. I. Zaytseva, A. Yu. Alekseev. Conference «Влияние окружающей среды на миграции в Евразии» (Impact of the Environment on Human Migration in Eurasia), (Russia, St.-Petersburg, November 15-18, 2003).
• M. Yu. Videyko. International Scientific and Practical Conference «Early agriculturalists in Europe: new discoveries and hypotheses» (Ukraine, Zbarazh, August 16-19, 2004).
• M. Yu. Videyko. «Cucuteni – 120 years of investigations. Time to strike the balance.»
• Colloquium and a festival of experimental archaeology). (Rumania, Piatra-Neamt, October 21-24, 2004)

HISTORY OF SCIENCE

• G. V. Dluzhnevskaya. Collection «The Library of the Marble Palace» in the Scientific Archives of IIMK RAS.
• M. V. Medvedeva. Activities of Architect K. K. Romanov in the Sphere of Studies and Preservation of Architectural Monuments on the Basis of Documents from the Collection of the Scientific Archives of IIMK RAS.
• N. I. Platonova. Gleb Anatol?evich Bonch-Osmolovskiy: the Fate of a Scholar (Pages of the Family Archives)
• N. D. Moiseeva. About RussianPrinces and Czars (on the Basis of the Scientific Archives of IIMK RAS).

PERSONALIA

• Yu. A. Vinogradov. To the 100th Anniversary of V. F. Gaydukevich
• V. I. Raspopova. In Memory of R. M. Dzhanpoladyan
• V. Ya. Shumkin. In Memory of Vladimir I. Timofeev (14. 06. 1947 – 08. 08. 2004).

CHRONICLE

• S. A. Kulakov. IIMK RAS in 2003