Archaeological news. Vol. 8. SPb. 2000.

New discoveries and studies

• V. P. Lioubine. Turkmenistan in the Paleolithic epoch.
• A. E. Matyukhin. Description and Interpretation of Tools from Palaeolithic Workshops.
• G. V. Sinitsina, S. N. Lisitsin. The Final Paleolithic – Early Mesolithic chrono-complexes separation experience of the multilayer site Vyshegora I in Smolensk region.
• S. A. Vasil’ev. The Upper components at the multilayered site of Ui II and the Holocene Stone Age cultures at the Upper Yenisei Area.
• N. B. Vasil’eva, N. V. Kosorukova. The Stone Age Settlement of Mar’ino-1 on the Ratsa River.
• G. F. Korobkova, T. A. Sharovskaya. Stone Age Bone Tools (Diagnostics of Wear Traces on the Basis of Archaeological and Experimental Evidence).
• A. K. Kasparov. Possibilities of Identification of Zoomorphic Figurines from Eneolithic Layers of the Sites of Ilgynly-Depe, Altyn-Depe and Kara-Depe in South Turkmenistan.
• N. N. Skakun. Archaeological threshing sledge inserts, experiments and ethnographical parallel.
• L. B. Kircho, T. A. Sharovskaya. A Decorated Stone Vessel from Altyn-Depe (to the Problem of the Post-Geoksyur Complex in Southern Turkmenistan)
• Dr. Eileen M. Murphy. An overview of the results obtained during the Palaeopathological analysis of the Scythian period burials from the cemetery of Aymyrlyg, Tuva, South Siberia.
• K. M. Baypakov. Artistic Bronzes from the Land of the Seven Rivers.
• K. I. Zaitseva. Hand-made stemmed cups of the late 7th-1st century B.C. from the northern Black Sea area. Part II.
• V. V. Krapivina. An Aphrodite Figurine from Olbia.
• V. V. Kropotov. Fibulae from the Cemeteries of Druzhnoe and Neusatz.
• M. A. Khomchik. A Bronze Roman Tripod from the Collection of the National Historical Museum of Ukraine.
• V. I. Denisova. About the Necropolis of Olbia of the Early Period (Dates, Finds, Hypotheses).
• S. G. Klyashtornyi. New Discoveries of Ancient Turkic Runic Inscriptions in the Central Tien Shan.
• K. V. Pavlova. Glazed Pottery from the Town-Site of Osovik.
• Appendix I. N. B. Selivanova. Results of a Petrographic Study of Ancient Russian Pottery Samples from the Townsite of Osovik in the Rognedinsky Region of the Bryansk Oblast.
• G. D. Pugachenkova. Once More about ‘Ishrat-Khanen and Dilkush’s Palace.

Topical problems of archaeology

• V. E. Shchelinskij. On correlation between forms and functions of Lower and Middle Palaeolithic tools. . .
• A.D. Stolyar. Ideological Factors of the Meso-Neolithic Ethnogenesis in the North of European Russia.
• P. P. Tolochko. Varangians in Southern Rus.

Articles and books reviews

• Palaeolithic Hunters in the Seine Valley. Occupations du Paleolithique superieur dans le sud-est du Bassin parisien. M. Julien, J.-L. Rieu (Dir.). Documents d’Archeologie francaise 78. 1999. Paris: Ed. de la Maison des sciences de l’homme. (Rev. by S. A. Vasil’ev).
• Middle Palaeolithic Province in the East-Lesser Caucasus. Jafarov A. K. The Middle Palaeolithic Period in Azerbaijan. 1999. Baku: Alm. (Rev. by V. P. Lyubin and E. V. Belyaeva).
• The Chronology of Early Agricultural Cultures in the Central Asia Interfluvial Area during the Early Metal Period. Sarazm (Tadjikistan) Ceramiques (Chalcolithique et Bronze Ancient). Par B. Lyonnet avec la collaboration de A. Isakov et la participation de N. Avanessova. Memoires de la mission archeologique francaise en Asie Centrale. 1996. Paris: De Boccard Edition. (Rev. by A. Ya. Shchetenko).
• Problems of the Chronology of the Bronze Age Civilisation in Central Asia. Fredrik T. Hiebert. Origins of the Bronze Age Civilization in Central Asia. American School of Prehistoric Research Bulletin 42. 1994. Cambridge: MA. Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology Harvard University. (Rev. by A. Ya. Shchetenko).
• "History of the Economy of Steppe Scythia in the 6th–4th Centuries B.C." N. A. Gavrilyuk and Problems of Economical Reconstructions according to Evidence of Herding Peoples in the Ancient Northern Black Sea Area.. N. A. Gavrilyuk. History of the Economy of Steppe Scythia in the 6th–4th Centuries B.C. 1999. Kharkov: PTF Publishing House. (Rev. by S. Zh. Pustovalova).
• Thoughts on Reading a Book about Byzantium and Gotland. Erland Lagerlof. Gotland och Bysans: Bysantiskt inflytande pa den gotlandska kyrkokonsten under medeltiden. 1999. Visby: Odins Forlag AB. (Rev. by A. A. Lipatov).

Science organization

• S. Gorshenina. Central Asia Studies in France.

East-west cooperation

• S. A. Vasil’ev. International Conference "Archaeology of the East – Archaeology of the West. Correlation between Theory and Practice in the European Archaeology" (Poznan, May 18 – 21, 2000).
• M. Yu. Vakhtina. Organisation of Archaeological Investigation of Ancient Sites in Turkey.
• International Scientific Conference "Greeks and Barbarians in Cimmerian Bosporus (7th–1st Cen. B.C.)" (Taman, October 9-16, 2000).
• A. D. Stolyar. International Scientific Conference Dedicated to the 100th Anniversary of Prof. Mikhail Illarionovich Artamonov – the Founder of IIMK AS USSR.
• A. N. Kirpichnikov, V. A. Goroncharovskiy. International Conference "The Military Archaeology: Weapons and Military Science in the Historical and Social Prospects" (Saint-Petersburg, September 2-5, 1998)
• E. N. Nosov. Problems of the Studies of Ancient Novgorod at the 5th Annual Meeting of the European Association of Archaeologists.

History of science

• Yu. A. Vinogradov. From the History of Archaeological Excavations on the Cape Ak-Burun near Kerch.

Personalia

• S. A. Vasil’ev. P. I. Boriskovskiy and Problems of Asian Palaeolithic
• Vl. A. Semenov, V. A. Alekshin, N. G. Gorbunova (†). To the 80th Anniversary of A. M. Mandelshtam (11. VIII. 1920 – 8. IX. 1983).
• To the 70th Anniversary of I. N. Khlopin.
• A. N. Kirpichnikov. About my colleague and friend.
• V. A. Zav’yalov. Scientific hertage of I. N. Chlopin.
• To the 60th Anniversary of E. A. Goryunov
• E. N. Nosov. In Memory of a Friend.
• R. V. Terpilovskiy. E. A. Gorynov’s Contribution to the Development of the Archaeology of Early Slavs.

Chronicle

• S. A. Kulakov. IIMK in 1999.
• E. V. Toropova, S. V. Troyanovskiy. On the Re-Foundation of the Novgorodian Society of Amateurs of Antiquity.