32 (4) 2007

Archaeology, Ethnology & Anthropology of Eurasia

32 (4) 2007

CONTENTS

PALEOENVIRONMENT. THE STONE AGE

N.S. Bolikhovskaya. Spatial and Temporal Regularities in the Evolution of Vegetation and Climate of North Eurasia in the Neopleistocene p. 2 – 28.
A.P. Derevianko and V.N. Zenin. Preliminary Results of Archaeological Studies at the Lower Paleolithic Site of Darvagchai- 1 in Dagestan p. 29 – 51.
A.V. Tabarev. On Oysters and Archaeologists (the Notion of ‘Aquaculture’ in Far Eastern Archaeology) p. 52 – 59.

THE METAL AGES AND MEDIEVAL PERIOD

E.I. Narozhny. Jurchen Artifacts from the Northern Caucasus p. 60 – 66.
T.N. Troitskaya, A.N. Savin, and O.V. Solodovskaya. Hollow Animal Figurines of the Verkhneobskaya Culture, the Novosibirsk Region p. 67 – 76.
E.S. Bogdanov and I.Y. Sljusarenko. Egyptian Faience Amulets from Gorny Altai p. 77 – 80.
V.N. Dobzhansky. Yenisei Kyrgyz “Forts” in the 17th Century: Historiographical Myth or Historical Reality? p. 81 – 90.
V.I. Molodin and D.V. Cheremisin. Petroglyphs of the Ukok Plateau p. 91 – 101.

ETHNOLOGY

A.N. Mukhareva. Camel Scenes in the Rock Art of the Minusinsk Basin p. 102 – 109.
Yu.E. Berezkin. “Earth-Diver” and “Emergence from under the Earth”: Cosmogonic Tales as Evidence in Favor of the Heterogenic Origins of the American Indians p. 110 – 123.

ANTHROPOLOGY

А.А. Lucidarskaya. Sorcery and Magic in the Life of Russian Colonists in Siberia in the 17th Century p. 124 – 129.

INFORMATION

T.A. Chikisheva, M.A. Gubina, I.V. Kulikov, T.M. Karafet, M.I. Voevoda, and A.G. Romaschenko. A Paleogenetic Study of the Prehistoric Populations of the Altai p. 130 – 142.
A.G. Kozintsev. Scythians of the North Pontic Region: Between-group Cranial Variation, Affi nities, and Origins p. 143 – 157.