Archaeological news. SPb, 1994. No. 3.

INSTITUTE FOR THE HISTORY OF MATERIAL CULTURE
OF RUSSIAN ACADEMY OF SCIENCES

Editorial

New discoveries and studies

N.K.Anisiutkin. The earliest sites of the Early Palaeolithic in the South-West of the Russian Plain.
V.E.Shchelinsky. On the function of bifaces from the Mousterian site Zaskalnaja V, Crimea.
A.E.Matiukhin. Palaeolithic workshops in the Lower Don basin.
I.V.Sapoznikov. A local dwelling complex at the Late Palaeolithic site Greater Akkarzha.
S.V.Oshibkina. Mesolithic graves to the east of the Onega Lake.
N.N.Skakun. New Excavations of the Eneolithic settlements in the Lower Danube Region.
B.N.Udeumuradov. Early agriculturalists of Southern Margiana (Southern-Eastern Turkmenia).
E.E.Philippova. Flat Tashtyk mask from the collection of the State Historical museum.
V.I.Denisova. The mould of the craftsman Hikesios from Olbia.
Yu.A.Vinogradov. Excavations of the temple of the goddess Zat-Himyam in Western Hadramaut (Raybun V).
A.Z.Berdimuradov, M.K.Samibaev. Early wall-painting of the Sogdian temple Jartepa II (5th - early 6th century AD).
B.Ambrosiany, P.G.Gajdukov, E.N.Nosov, I.Jansson. The first find of a Scandinavian equal-armed brooch of Valsta type in Rus'.
O.V.Ovsiannikov. The Arctic of the Middle Ages: recent archaeological discoveries.
A.N.Kirpichnikov, S.V.Beletsky. New sphragistic finds from Old Ladoga.

Actual problems of archaeology

V.A.Alekshin. New evidence on the Near Eastern Mousterian burials.
M.V.Anikovich. The main principles of the chronology and periodization of the Upper Palaeolithic of Europe.
S.A.Vasilyev. The final palaeolithic of Siberia and the Magdalenian of France: a comparative analysis of structural features.
G.F.Korobkova. Stone tools and the beginning of agriculture in the Near East.
A.A.Vaiman. On the Quasi-Sumerian tablets from Tartaria.
A.Stalsberg. Problem of cultural interaction between Rus and Scandinavia during the 8th-llth centuries (based on archaeological collections in CIS).
A.Guidi. The Italian "pluriverse": different approaches to prehistoric archaeology.

Review articles and book reviews

L.B.Vishnyatskij. The history of one career.
A.Ya.Shchetenko. The reconstraction of Harappan economy (paleobotanic materials from Rozhdy).
Yu.E.Berezkin. City-state or empire- Controversy of Uary.
G.M.Levkovskaya. The interaction of the man and the environment.
O.I.Boguslavskij. New stage of excavation in Birka.
E.N.Nosov. Marine archaeology in Scandinavian countries.
V.A.Lapshin. Rescue archaeology in Sweden.

Science organization

East-west cooperation

V.M.Masson. International conferences on the study of ancient towns of Middle Asia.
G.N.Kurochkin. Ancient trading towns of Eastern Africa and the Swedish program of their studies.
A.Alsleben, L.-K.K6ningsson, H.Kroll, M.Muller-Wille, E.N.Nosov, T.Hammer, I.Jansson. International palaeobotanical studies on the Novgorod Land c.400-1200 A.D.
M.Brisbain, E.N.Nosov, A.S.Khoroshev. Anglo-Russian Collaboration in the Archaeological Study of Novgorod.
A.Ya.Shchetenko. American archaeologists in St.-Petersburg.

Personalia

G.V.Grigor'eva. Meeting in memory of Pavel losifovitch Boriskovskij.
P.I.Boriskovskij. About the scientific prevision in the archaeology of palaeolithic.
A.D.Stolyar. In memory of Pavel losifovitch Boriskovskij.
T.D.Belanovskaya. The problems of history of primitive society in the works of P.I.Boriskovskij.
G.P.Grigor'ev. P.I.Boriskovskij and P.P.Efimenko.
Fam Kuang Shon. The role of P.I.Boriskovskij in the formation and development of archaeology of Vietnam.

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