49 (2) 2021

ISSN 1563 0110

Archaeology, Ethnology & Anthropology of Eurasia

49 (2) 2021

doi:10.17746/1563-0110.2021.49.2

CONTENTS

PALEOENVIRONMENT. THE STONE AGE

A.M. Khatsenovich, I.A. Vishnevskaya, D. Bazargur, A.O. Volvakh, A.M. Klementiev, J. Ge, S.V. Zhilich, D.V. Marchenko, T.G. Okuneva, S.A. Kogai, B. Gunchinsuren, E.P. Rybin, J.W. Olsen, and A.P. Derevianko. Late Pleistocene Paleoenvironments and Episodic Human Occupations in the Orkhon Valley of Central Mongolia p. 3 – 22.
M.V. Seletsky, A.Y. Fedorchenko, P.V. Chistyakov, S.V. Markin, and K.A. Kolobova. Percussive-Abrasive Stone Tools from Chagyrskaya Cave: Results of Functional Analysis p. 23 – 31.
N.M. Chairkina. On the Date of the Great Shigir Idol p. 32 – 42.

THE METAL AGES AND MEDIEVAL PERIOD

B. Gasparyan and S.N. Korenevskiy. An Early Bronze Age Hoard of Bronze Tools from Dvin, Central Armenia p. 43 – 52.
N. Benecke, S.K. Vasiliev, V.I. Molodin, L.N. Mylnikova, M.S. Nesterova, and S. Reinhold. Vengerovo-2—a Krotovo Culture Site in the Baraba Forest-Steppe: An Archaeozoological Study p. 53 – 63.
H.F. Jafarov. The Emergence and Formation of a Proto-Urban Civilization in Azerbaijan: Certain Issues in the Transition to Class Society p. 64 – 71.
D.V. Selin, Y.P. Chemyakin, and L.N. Mylnikova. Pottery from the Barsov Gorodok III/6 Early Iron Age Fortifi ed Settlement in the Surgut Stretch of the Ob: A Technological Analysis p. 72 – 83.
S.P. Nesterov and Y.P. Kolmogorov. The Study of Non-Ferrous Metal Artifacts of the Early Iron Age and Medieval Cultures in the Western Amur Basin p. 84 – 93.
A.P. Borodovsky. Changes in Wooden Defensive Structures at Fort Umrevinsky (Based on Archaeological and Written Sources) p. 94 – 101.

ETHNOLOGY

A.V. Chernykh. The Festive Culture of Mining Plants in the Urals: The Dobryanka Case p. 102 – 109.
B.A. Bicheev. Happy Marriages Are Blessed in the Heavens, Unhappy Ones Cause Poverty: A View on Women in Usun-Debeskertu-Khan’s Instructions p. 110 – 117.
L.S. Dampilova. Mythologizing History in Buryat Shamanic Rites p. 118 – 124.
O.V. Maltseva. The Tiger-Dog and its Semantics in the Nanai Shamanic Sculpture: Cultural and Cognitive Aspects p. 125 – 133.

ANTHROPOLOGY AND PALEOGENETICS

V.G. Moiseyev, A.V. Zubova, P.S. Grebenyuk, A.I. Lebedintsev, B.A. Malyarchuk, and A.Y. Fedorchenko. Population Affinities of the Ancient Northern Okhotsk People: Cranial Evidence from a Collective Burial in a Rock Niche on Cape Bratyev, the Northern Okhotsk Coast p. 134 – 143.
T.A. Chikisheva and I.V. Salnikova. The First Settlers of Novosibirsk: The Demographic Structure of Krivoshchekovo, Western Siberia, in the 18th and Early 19th Centuries p. 144 – 153.

PERSONALIA

Archaeologist, Ethnographer, Art Historian—60 Years of Scientifi c Research: To the Anniversary of Professor D.G. Savinov p. 154 – 156.

CONTRIBUTORS