I.V. Manzura (Kishinev, Moldova). The Theses about V.S. Bochkarev .......... 11

The birth of Europe

L.H. Barfield (Birmingham, UK) and E. Montagnari Kokelj (Trieste, Italy). The 4th and 3rd Millennium BC in Northern Italy: From the Late Neolithic to Copper Age .......... 12
R. Grifoni Cremonesi (Pisa, Italy). Eneolithic Aspects of Central Italy .......... 40
E. Ingravallo (Lecce, Italy). The Eneolithic of Southern Italy .......... 53
E. Banffy (Budapest, Hungary). South-west Transdanubia as a Mediating Area. Data to the Cultural History of the Early and Middle Chalcolithic in the Light of Latest Research .......... 63
Yu.Ya. Rassamakin (Kiev, Ukraine). The Kvityanskaya Culture: History and Current State of the Problem .......... 117

Migrations in archaeology

L.S. Klejn (St.-Petersburg, Russia). Migration of Tokharians in the Light of Archaeological Data .......... 178
V.A. Dergachev (Kishinev, Moldova). Two Studies in Defence of Migration Concept .......... 188
I.V. Manzura (Kishinev, Moldova). Those Who Possess Scepters .......... 237

The wheeled transport in the European prehistory

S.Z. Pustovalov (Kiev, Ukraine). The «Tyagunova Mogila» Burial Mound and the Problem of Wheeled Transport of the Pit Grave and Catacomb Cultures in Eastern Europe .......... 296
I. Paslaru (Bucharest, Romania — Kiev, Ukraine). The Indoeuropeans, Horse and Bridle in the Bronze Age .......... 322
E.A. Cherlenok (St.-Petersburg, Russia). The Burials of Chariot Horses in the Late Bronze Age of Eastern Europe and Kazakhstan .......... 346

Monograph inside the Journal

L.V. Subbotin (Odessa, Ukraine). The Early and Middle Bronze Age of the Northwest Pontic Region .......... 350
Foreword .......... 350
The Pit Grave Culture. The Budzhak Group .......... 352
The Catacomb Culture .......... 364
The «Mnogovalikovaya» Culture .......... 376

Eco-social reconstructions

S.V. Ivanova (Odessa, Ukraine). The Social Organisation of the Tribes of the Yamnaya Culture in the Northwest Pontic Area .......... 388
G.A. Pashkevich (Kiev, Ukraine). Agriculture in the Steppe and Forest-steppe Zones of Eastern Europe in the Neolithic and Bronze Age (Palaeo-ethnic and Botanic Evidence) .......... 404
E.P. Sekerskaia (Odessa, Ukraine). Stock-breeding and Hunting in the Economy of the Late Sabatinovka Culture Settlement at the Dremailovka Village .......... 419

Researches and publications

L. Nikolova (Karlovo, Bulgaria). The Pit Grave Culture in the Balkans (Dynamics of the Structure of the Burial Rites and its Relation to other Early Bronze Age Cultures) .......... 423
S.N. Ryzhov (Kiev, Ukraine). Painted Ceramics of the Tomashovka Local-chronological Group of the Tripolye Culture .......... 459
V.F. Petrun’ (Odessa, Ukraine). On White Pottery Crust of the Tripolje and some other Sites found in the Ukraine and Contiguous Countries .......... 474
Yu.A. Chernienko (Odessa, Ukraine). Some Research Results and Problems in the study of Construction Works on Sabatinovka Culture Settlements in the Northwest Black Sea Region .......... 483
A.G. Pleshivenko, A.L. Antonov (Zaporozhie, Ukraine). The «Voznesenskiy» Tumulus .......... 505
E.N. Abyzova, E.O. Klochko (Kishinev, Moldova). The Burial Mounds at the Chirileni Village .......... 516
V.A. Kolotukhin (Simferopol, Ukraine). The Late Eneolithic Settlement in Bai-Kiyat, Crimea .......... 526
G.I. Smirnova (St.-Petersburg, Russia). The First Settlers at Pomirki near the Village of Dolinyany .......... 554
I.V. Bruiako, A.A. Rosohatski (Odessa, Ukraine). Bronze Age Burials on the Late Antic Cemetery at the Belenkoe Village .......... 563
D.V. Nelin (Cheliabinsk, Russia). A New Find with a Spiral Design in the Southern Trans-Ural Region .......... 569

The archaeology of representations

A.M.Smirnov (Moscow, Russia). Composition «Stall and Animals» in Carvings on Eneolithic Stelae of the Pontic Region: A Proposition of Analogies and Interpretation .......... 571

Archaeological theorems

L.S.Klejn (St.-Petersburg, Russia). Typology in Connection with Modernism .......... 584

Reviews

Iu.V. Goncharova (St.-Petersburg, Russia — Kishinev, Moldova). By Roads of the Steppe Corridor. Types, Versions, Assumptions. .......... 590
A.A. Romanchuk, V.N. Telnov (Kishinev, Moldova). The «Fengliu» in Theoretical Archaeology (A Phenomenology of Landscape by Christopher Tilley: A View from the East) .......... 595
M.N. Pavlova (St.-Petersburg, Russia — Kishinev, Moldova). The History of Fauna, Holocene, New Researches .......... 602

History of science

A.D. Stolyar (St.-Petersburg, Russia). A Concealed Chapter of the History of the Soviet Archaeology. .......... 613

LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS .......... 619

Call for papers .......... 621