Archaeological news. SPb, 1993. No. 2.

Editorial

• V.M.Masson. Archaeological Europe from the Atlantic to the Urals.

New discoveries and studies

• Z.A.Abramova,G.V.Grigorieva. Ivory artifacts from the Palaeolithic site Yudinovo.
• V.A.Galibin, V.l.Timofeev. The new approach to the recognition of the sources of flint raw material for the Stone age cultures of the Eastern Baltic region.
• D.A.Krainov, E.L.Kostylieva, A.V.Utkin. Burials and ritual complexes at the site Sakhtysh-IIa.
• G.N.Kurochkin. The excavation of a scythian tsar's barrow in Southern Siberia.
• D.G.Savinov. The Tashtyk funeral chamber Stepnovka-II in South Khakassia.
• A.V.Davydova, S.S.Miniaev. New finds of decorated belts from the Direstujskij cemetery.
• V.A.Galibin. Ancient Indian glass beads in burials of Siberia and Middle Asia.
• Yu.A.Vinogradov. New facts about the South-Arabian port of Qana during the lst-6th centuries A.D.
• V.A.Goroncharovsky. Golden medallion of the 3rd century A.D. from the excavations of Iluraton.
• W.Rudolph. The Great Pectoral from the Tolstaja Mogila (a work of the Certomlyk Master and his studio.
• B.I.Marshak, V.I.Raspopova, V.G.Shkoda. New investigations of the Sogdian Culture in Penjikent (Tadjikistan).
• A.B.Nikitin. Parthian inscriptions on bulls from Old Nisa.
• V.V.Stolba. Some personal names in Greek ceramic inscriptions from Chersonesos.
• V.L.Yanin. Novgorodian birch-bark documents from the site of St.Michael the Archangel (1990).
• A.N.Kirpichnilov, V.P.Kovalenko. Ornamented and inscribed blades of early medieval sabres.

Actual problems of archaeology

• L.S.Klein. The historical method in archaeology.
• A.E.Musin. On the study of Russian church culture within Russian Archaeology.
• V.A-Alekshin. The features of Mousterian burial rite (the materials of Mousterian burials in the Crimea).
• K.V.Kasparova. On the time of the Zarubintsy Culture origin.

New publications

• A.A.Sinitsyn. New methods of the formalized analysis at archaeological sources.
• P.M.Dolukhanov. The archaeology of the future.
• O.I.Boguslavskl. Problems of the study, restoration and use of ancient sites the experience of Slovakian archaeologists.
• Z.A.Abramova. The animal's image in Palaeolithic art.
• L.B.Kircho. New stage in the study of the Ubeid Culture.
• M.B.Rysin. New methods of the study of pottery complexes from Megalithic tombs in South Sweden.
• N.V.Khvostchinskaja. A discovery in the Hogom (unique data on the history of ancient North-European dress).
• E.N.Nosov. Towns of the Vikings.

Science organization

• O.Soffer. The organization and financing of archaeology in the United States.
• Fan Kuang Shon. The organization of archaeology and the problems of archaeological research in Vietnam.
• N.N.Negmatov. The Hisar historico-cultural park in Tajik republik.
• E.A-Smagulov. Institute of Archaeology of Kazakhstan: perspectives of the international collaboration.

East-west cooperation

• V.M.Masson. International project "Ancient Merv".
• V.A.Trifonov. The international symposium "Maikop phenomenon in the ancient history of the Caucasus and Eastern Europe".
• A.N.Kirpichnikov, E.N.Nosov. Scientific cooperation of Russian and Finnish archaeologists.
• E.N.Nosov. The international scientific and practical seminar on archaeology in Novgorod.