CONTENTS 



Preface V 



I. All-Union Conference on Archeology i 



II. Recent work in anthropology 7 



A. Ancient peoples and their origin 7 



B. Modern races and their history 12 



C. Variations in the structure of human bodies 17 



III. Paleolithic sites jo 



Introduction 20 



Primitive Mousterian and Clactonian sites 21 



Black Sea Littoral : Abkhazia and Crimea 21 



^fouste^ian sites 23 



Upper Paleolithic and Epipaleolithic sites 29 



European part of the R.S.F.S.R 29 



Ukraine 37 



Territory of the B.S.S.R 46 



Crimea 46 



Caves in the Caucasus 50 



Open-air sites in the Caucasus 52 



Asiatic part of the R.S.F.S.R 53 



Arctic Paleolithic 64 



IV. Miscellanea Archeologica 66 



Introduction 66 



Ukraine 67 



Crimea 67 



Black Sea coast 75 



North Caucasus 78 



South Caucasus 78 



Armenia 85 



Don region 85 



Volga region 87 



Novo-Akkermanovka cemetery 87 



Kochergino cemetery 88 



Upper Volga 88 



Previous research in the Upper \'oIga region 94 



Central Asia 95 



Uzbek S.S.R., I937-I939 95 



Soghdiana 106 



Kirghiz S.S.R no 



Siberia 1 10 



Khakass A. S.S.R no 



V. Miscellanea Anthropologica 1 13 



Introduction 113 



Anthropology of the western Pamirs 116 



Iranian tribes of the western Pamirs . 119 



Mountain Tajiks J25 



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