KSIA is an academic archaeological journal covering the whole of Russia. Its objective is to introduce into the academic literature the latest results of professional research and shape up-to-date concepts relating to problems of archaeology.
The task of the journal is to publish the most important achievements of recent field archaeology and to examine a broad range of problems relating to pre-historic, Classical and Medieval archaeology (both in Russia and abroad) and using scientific methods in archaeology. The Editorial Board of the journal KSIA is constantly working to raise the academic level of the published materials, so as to provide readers with new relevant information concerning the achievements of archaeology in our country against a broad background of modern developments in the domain of historical research.
When KSIA issues of are compiled, each one is focused on a particular theme and often based on materials from a recent conference organized by and held in the Institute of Archaeology Russian Academy of Sciences.
Iss. 278
Contents
PROBLEMS AND MATERIALS
Gavrilov K. N., Khlopachev G. A. Types of Personal Jewelry and the Structure of the Mortuary Construction at Sungir: Chronological Analogies . . . . . 7 [pdf]
Shmidt I. V., Rogachev E. A., Maliy V. Yu. The Mammoth Tusk Bead: Wear Marks Caused by a Long Period of Use (some statements based on the experimentation) . . . . . 24 [pdf]FROM STONE TO BRONZE
Shchelinsky V. E. The Discovery of the First Middle Paleolithic Locations in the Western Ciscaucasia . . . . . 43 [pdf]
Ozherelyev D. V., Zhilin M. G. The Use-wear Analysis of the Microliths from Layer 9 at the Upper Paleolithic Site of Rakhat in Kazakhstan . . . . . 61 [pdf]
Eskova D. K., Dolbunova E. V., Mazurkevich A. N. The Lithic Items of the Early Neolithic from the Dnieper-Dvina Interfluve (case study of the lithic assemblage at the Single Kurgan site near the Serteya village) . . . . . 77 [pdf]
Morgunova N. L., Salugina N. P. Revisiting the Issue of Pottery Technology of the Abashevo Culture (based on the data from the funerary assemblages in the Orenburg Urals region) . . . . . 99 [pdf]
Gak E. I., Kaiser E. Radiocarbon Chronology and Archaeological Materials from the Ksizovo-1 Settlement in the Upper Don Region . . . . . 118 [pdf]
Sotnikova S. V. The Dice of the Srubnaya-Andronovo World: the Issue of the Symbol Interpretation Revisited . . . . . 136 [pdf]
Kuzminykh S. V., Syrovatko A. S. The Finds of the Late Bronze Age Celts in the Lower Reaches of the Moskva-river . . . . . 150 [pdf]IRON AGE AND ANTIQUITY
Kadieva A. A., Demidenko S. V. Two Unusual Warrior Graves from the Scythian Period at the Zayukovo-3 Cemetery . . . . . 157 [pdf]
Lyakhov S. V., Maslov V. E., Polovinkina Yu. S. The Warrior Grave near the Kitaevskoe Village . . . . . 176 [pdf]
Zaytsev Yu. P., Shkriblyak I. I. The Citadel of the Melek Hillfort Based on the 2024 Investigation . . . . . 196 [pdf]
Vasilyeva O. A. Carved Bone Objects from the Late Antiquity in the Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts: the Issue of the Collection Origin and Composition Revisited . . . . . 205 [pdf]
Chebyshev G. S. New Finds of Clay Oil Lamps from the Southern Suburb of Chersoneses . . . . . 219 [pdf]
Kovalchuk A. V., Finogenova S. I. The Stamp Featuring a Rooster . . . . . 232 [pdf]MEDIEVAL ANTIQUITIES
Kazanskiy M. M. Post-Hun Tanais and the Onoghurs . . . . . 243 [pdf]
Korobov D. S. The Levopodkumsky 1 Kurgan Cemetery near Kislovodsk: Preliminary Results of the 2025 Comprehensive Research . . . . . 261 [pdf]
Rodinkova V. E. Early Slavic Materials from the Bondarevka 2 Settlement in the Upper Psel Basin . . . . . 275 [pdf]
Krenke N. A., Ershov I. N. Medieval Russia Horseshoe-shaped Fibulae Featuring Masks . . . . . 294 [pdf]
Baranov N. A. Double-sided Combs and One-sided Combs from Archaeological Research in Suzdal . . . . . 308 [pdf]
Kolokolov A. M. The Find of the Saber in the Suburb of Tula . . . . . 328 [pdf]METHODS OF NATURAL SCIENCES IN ARCHAEOLOGICAL INVESTIGATIONS
Kazarnitskiy A. A. The Scale of Yamnaya Population Migrations (based on craniological data) . . . . . 342 [pdf]
Panteleev S. A., Balabanova M. A., Pererva E. V. The Dune Grave of the Hun Period from the «Posolsky» Cemetery: Archaeology and Anthropology . . . . . 358 [pdf]
Iudina A. M., Badeev D. Yu. Biritual Burials at the Noven’koe-1 Kurgan/In-ground Cemetery: Paleodemographic Aspects of the Study . . . . . 382 [pdf]
Bachura O. P., Lobanova T. V., Grigoryeva N. V., Lapshin V. A. Archaeozoological Materials of the 11 th –17 th Centuries from the Excavations of the Zemlyanoe Hillfort in Staraya Ladoga . . . . . 396 [pdf]
Selin D. V., Chindina L. A. The Technical and Technological Analysis of the Kulaika Ceramics from the Malget 6 Settlement . . . . . 413 [pdf]
Khalimullina L. R. The Analysis of the Morphometric Characteristics of the Sites from the Second Quarter of the I Millennium AD in the Bolshoi Cheremshan River Basin . . . . . 429 [pdf]ABBREVIATIONS . . . . . 444 [pdf]
SUBMISSION GUIDE . . . . . 447 [pdf]Archive