L.B.Vishnyatsky (St.Petersburg, Russia). Editor's foreword .......... 9
I. East of the West: Transition to the Upper Palaeolithic in Eastern Europe,

Western Asia and Southern Siberia

I.1. Eastern Europe
M.V. Anikovich (St.Petersburg, Russia). The Initial Stage of the Upper Palaeolithic in East Europe .......... 11
V.Cohen, V.Stepanchuk (Kiev, Ukraine). Variability of Middle to Upper Palaeolithic transition: New data from the Eastern Europe .......... 31
V.P. Chabai (Simferopol, Ukraine). On the specific features of the Middle to Upper Paleolithic transition in Crimea .......... 54
A.E.Marks, K.Monigal (Dallas, USA). The Middle to Upper Paleolithic Interface in Crimea, with Particular Reference to Buran-Kaya-III, Eastern Crimea .......... 84
Yu.E. Demidenko (Kiev, Ukraine). «The Crimean Enigma» — Middle Palaeolithic Artifacts within Early Aurignacian of Krems-Dufour Type Complexes at Siuren-I: Alternative Hypothesis for Solution of the Problem .......... 97
A.A.Sinitsyn (St.Petersburg, Russia). Lower cultural layer of Kostenki 14 (Markina gora) in relation to problems of the most Early Upper Palaeolithic .......... 125

I.2. Western Asia
J. Sarel, A. Ronen (Haifa, Israel), E. Boeda (Paris, France). Is There a «Transitional Industry» in Northern Israel? .......... 147
L.V. Golovanova (St.Petersburg, Russia). The Middle to Upper Paleolithic Interface in the Northern Caucasus .......... 158

I.3. Siberia
S.A. Vasiliev (St.Petersburg, Russia). Middle-to-Upper Palaeolithic Transition in Siberia .......... 178

II. Inter-Regional Comparisons and General Issues
G.P. Grigoriev (St.Petersburg, Russia). Thirty Years After, or What Is Right and What Is Wrong in the Book «The Onset of the Upper Palaeolithic» .......... 211
G.Tostevin (Williamstown, Ms., USA). It Happened Twice: Inter-regional Diffusion between 60 and 30 kya in Central Europe, Eastern Europe, and the Levant .......... 216
O. Soffer (Urbana, Illinois, USA). Neanderthal Refugia and Archaic Lifeways .......... 236
L.B. Vishnyatsky (St.Petersburg, Russia). «The Upper Paleolithic Revolution»: its Geography, Chronology, and Causes. .......... 245

Researches and publications

N.A.Chetraru (Kishinev, Moldova), G.V.Grigorieva (St.Petersburg, Russia), S.I.Covalenco (Kishinev, Moldova). Flint Industry of the Late Palaeolithic Site Rashkov VII .......... 272
N.K. Anisiutkin (St.Petersburg, Russia), I.A. Borziak (Kishinev, Moldova). Palaeolithic Site at Yarovo on the Middle Dniester .......... 315

The archaeology of representations

Z.A.Abramova (St.Petersburg, Russia). Mammoth and Woman in the Palaeolithic Art of Europe .......... 319
G.V. Grigorieva (St.Petersburg, Russia). Ornaments and Ornamented Tusks from the Upper Palaeolithic Site at Yudinovo .......... 326

Problems of the Palaeolithic and Mesolithic of Europe

A. Sytnik (Lvov, Ukraine). New Sites of Stinka Industry on the Dniester and Their Cultural and Historical Interpretation .......... 332
M. Carciumaru (Bucharest, Romania). Problems of the Carpathian Mousterian in Romania .......... 351
N.P. Olenkowski (Cherson, Ukraine). Central European Epi-Gravettian and Eastern Gravettian Cultures of the Ukraine .......... 368
L.G. Matskevy (Lvov, Ukraine). On the Final Palaeolithic and Mesolithic of Kremenechina .......... 378

Monograph inside the Journal

G.F.Korobkova (St.Petersburg, Russia), M.D.Djurakulov (Samarkand, Uzbekistan). The Site of Samarkand as a Model of the Upper Palaeolithic in the Middle Asia (Peculiarities of Chipping Technique and Economic Activities) .......... 385

Eco-social reconstructions

E.V.Smyntyna (Odessa, Ukraine). Palaeoecological Regions of the Steppe Ukraine at the Period of Early Mesolithic .......... 463
S.P. Smolianinova (Odessa, Ukraine). Space Distribution of Quartzite Items on Anetovka II Site .......... 477

Archaeological theorems

L.S.Klejn (St.Petersburg, Russia). Archaeological Periodisation: Approaches and Criteria .......... 485

LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS .......... 516

Contents of «Stratum plus» Journal during the 1999-th .......... 517

Call for Papers .......... 521