Only archaeology! (Editorial comments) .......... 6

De principiis

Klejn L.S. (S.Petersburg, Russia). Functions of archaeological theory .......... 8

Monograph in the journal

Marchenko C.C., Domansky J.V. (S.Petersburg, Russia). Two settlements of Low Bug area of the archaic time (The experience of the comparative characteristics of the material culture of monuments) .......... 26

Investigations and publications

Redina E.F. (Odessa, Ukraine). The Scythian burial by the village of Nedelkovo in the North of Odessa region. .......... 75
Gavrilov A.V. (Simferopol, Ukraine). Amphorae import on the antique site of Novopokrovka in the south-east Crimea .......... 81
Kamenetsky I.S. (Krasnodar, Russia). To the date of the site of Novo-Djerelievskaia III .......... 96

«Epistulae ex Ponto»

Vinogradov Yu.A. (S.Petersburg, Russia). Greek colonization and Greek urbanization of the Northern Black Sea region. .......... 101
Rogov E.I. (S.Petersburg, Russia). Some problems of foundation and development of the Chersonesus state. .......... 116
Marchenko K.K. (S.Petersburg, Russia). To the problem of Greek-Barbarian contacts in the North-Western Black Sea region of the V-IV c. B.C. (rural settlements of the Low Bug area). .......... 145
Nefiodkin A.K. (S.Petersburg, Russia). Arrian’s campaign against the Alans’ foray in Cappadocia in 135 AD. .......... 173
Sharov O.V. (S.Petersburg, Russia). About the time of appearance of T-shape hinge fibulas in the Northern Black Sea region .......... 189

The archaeology of the images

Shaub I.Yu. (S.Petersburg, Russia). The Cult of the Great Goddess among the local population of the Northern Black Sea region. .......... 207
Goroncharovsky V.A. (S.Petersburg, Russia). To the question of the cult of Kybele on Bosporos in the first centuries A.D. .......... 224
Reabtseva S.S. (S.Petersburg, Russia). Snakes and dragons. About the continuation of one antique tradition in the jewelry craft in the Middle Ages. .......... 228

Modern antiquity

Dobrolubsky A.O. (S.Petersburg, Russia). About searchings of ancient Odessa. .......... 241

Changing of cultures and cultural catastrophs

Romanchuk A.A. (Kishinev, Moldavia). Three whales of Early Scythian Culture on the waves of Illirian expansion. .......... 260
Tkachuk M.E. (Kishinev, Moldavia). Getica that we have lost. (From the antology of chronological breaks). .......... 274
Zuev V.Yu. (S.Petersburg, Russia). About the ways of solving «the problem of the III-rd century B.C.» in the periodization of archaeological monuments of the Sarmatian Age. .......... 305
Bruyako I.V. (Odessa, Ukraine). From diorama to panorama (about the perspectives on the way of solving the problem of the Northern Pont crisis of the III c.B.C.) .......... 325

History of science and historiography

Marchenko C.C. (S.Petersburg, Russia). The basic aspects and the results of the studying of the Greek-Barbarian contacts and interactions in the Northern Black Sea region of the Scythian Age. .......... 333
Tunkina I.V. (S.Petersburg, Russia). To the history of studying of antique monuments of Western Black Sea region in 1828-29 years. .......... 354
Parmakli S.I., Russev N.D. (Kishinev, Moldavia). To the history of studying of ancient monuments of Bessarabia (by the documents of the Imperial Society of history of antiquities of Odessa [ISHAO]). .......... 359

Critique

Kashuba M.T. (S.Petersburg, Russia). «Another» Chernolesskaya culture of the Middle Dniester according to L.I.Kruselnicka. .......... 369

«Free zone»

Klejn L.S. (S.Petersburg, Russia). Precepts. Aphorisms about science .......... 389

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