EDITORIAL PREFACE
Paleolithic
Kuzmin Y. V., Dikova M. A. Chronology of the Late Pleistocene archaeological sites in Northeastern Siberia: the 2014 state-of-the-art.
Archaeology of ideas
Sher Ya. A. The sources of art: Is not it time to change the direction of the search?
Jacobson-Tepfer E. Rock Art, language and cognition: Evidence from the Mongolian Altai and beyond
Neolithic
Discussion: Neolithic in the Three Age System
Vasiliev S. A. Discussion about the defining criteria of the Neolithic at the methodological seminar of IHMC RAS
Klejn L. S. Archaeological periodization in the new millennium
Kolpakov E. M. Periodization and the concept of "Neolithic"
Berezkin Yu. E. Neolithic, Andes, and the Near East
Lozovsky V. M., Mazurkevich A. N. The initial stage of the Neolithic in European Russia (based on the analysis of stone industries)
Tsvetkova N. A. Periodization and culture history of the Volga-Oka Neolithic
Lychagina E. L. On the legitimacy of distinguishing Neolithic in the forest zone (with particular reference to the neolithic of the Kama basin)
Gusev S. V. "Persisting Neolithic" - myth or reality?
Medvedev V. E. Letter to the participants of the discussion
Yanshina O. V. The concept of "Neoliithic" and archaeology of East Asia
Lynsha V. A., Tarasenko V. N. Place of the Orlinyi Klyuv culture in the Neolithic of Primorye and the Lower Amur region
Early Metal and Bronze Age
Tutaeva I. Zh. Metal razors in the Late Bronze Age of Eastern Europe
Kovalev A. A., Erdenebaatar D. Discovery of a new Late Bronze Age culture in Central Eurasia (Munkh-khairkhan culture)
L. S. Klejn. Who was embodied by the Chemurchek statues?
Iron Age
Ryabkova T. V. Barrow No. 524 near the village of Zhabotin and its place among the sites of the Scythian Archaic Period
Ancient East and Classical Antiquity
Azbelev P. P. Once more about the early stirrups
Choref M. M. Bosporan Kingdom under Theothorses (on the basis of numismatic data)
Middle Ages
Musin A. E. Corals in the Christian culture of East Europe and Mediterranean area
Beletsky S. V. Seals of the Pskov vicars of the XIV-XV cc. Part 1: seals of the XIV – early XV cc.
History of archaeology and protection of monuments
Tikhonov I. L. Archaeology in the Imperial Hermitage
Platonova N. I. First steps in the area of monument protection in the post-revolutionary Petrograd (on the publication of documents from the personal archive of P. P. Pokryshkin)
Sorokina I. A. Organization of Russian field archaeology in the first post-revolutionary years (1917-1920)
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In Memoriam
Abram Davidovich Stolyar (1921-1914)
Vladimir Evgenievich Eremenko (1963-2014)
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