Summary

New data on the formation of local variations in the Upper Paleolithic of the Caucasus  page 5–20

Golovanova L.V., Doronichev V.B., Doronicheva E.V. (St.-Petersburg, Russian Federation)

Muchkas-1 — a new reference complex of the Chuzh’yael’ Culture on the Mezen’ River  page 21–31

Karmanov V.N., Belitskaia A.L. (Syktyvkar, Russian Federation)

Analysis of the shapes of clay vessels from the Chekanovsky Log-2 burial ground of the Andronovo (Fedorovo) Culture in the foothills of Altai  page 32–44

Savko I.A. (Novosibirsk, Russian Federation), Kholoshin P.R. (Moscow, Russian Federation), Demin M.A. (Barnaul, Russian Federation), Sitnikov S.M. (Barnaul, Russian Federation)

Abzakovo hoard of the Bronze Age in the Bashkir Trans-Urals   page 45–52

Bersenev E.V. (Ufa, Russian Federation)

Sacred objects from the sites of the Sargatka Culture in the context of interaction of the forest-steppe population with the nomads of the Ural-Kazakh steppes   page 53–67

Prokonova M.M. (Tyumen, Russian Federation)

The weapon complex of the Northern Altai population in the Xianbei period (on materials from the necropolis of Karban-I)  page 68–80

Seregin N.N., Demin M.A., Matrenin S.S.

The ‘old wood’ effect and problems of dating iron smelting sites  page 81–90

Zaitceva O.V., Vodyasov E.V. (Tomsk, Russian Federation)

A new interpretation of the inscriptions on the handles of signature knives found on the shores of Sims Bay  page 91–103

Avdeev A.G. (Moscow, Russian Federation), Okladnikova Ye.A. (St.-Petersburg, Russian Federation), Svoiskii U.M., Romanenko E.V. (Moscow, Russian Federation)

Residential buildings of the Russian population in the Omsk Irtysh region in the 17th — beginning of the 20th c. in the archaeological and architectural-ethnographic dimension  page 104–113

Tataurov Ph.S. (Bolsherechye, Omsk region, Russian Federation)

Аnthropology

Summary

Some aspects of the postcranial morphology of the Ural-Mugodzhar population in the Late Bronze Age  page 114–129

Grigorev A.P. (Samara, Russian Federation), Zhanuzak R.Zh. (Almaty, Kazakhstan)

Yakut tangalai clothing: cut, trimming, and technologies page 151–162

Petrova S.I., Prokopeva A.N. (Yakutsk, Russian Federation)

Mammoth bone collecting as a traditional occupation of the indigenous population of the East Siberian Arctic (17th — early 20th c.)  page 163–171

Bravina R.I. (Yakutsk, Russian Federation)

Cultural and semiotic codes of Burkhanist wedding rites of the Altai-Kizhi  page 172–181

Tadina N.A. (Gorno-Altaisk, Russian Federation)

A.B. Anokhin's letter “On shamanism among the Altai tribes”  page 182–190

Malinov A.V. (St. Petersburg, Russian Federation)

Field journal as a source of information on traditional medicine (based on the materials of the expedition to the Trans-Onega region in 1931)  page 191–198

Pashkova T.V., Rodionova A.P. (Petrozavodsk, Russian Federation)

“Field Journals” of ethnologist R.G. Kuzeev: archaeographic and source-study characteristics  page 199–207

Sadikov R.R. (Ufa, Russian Federation)