2025. No. 20 - Proceedings in Archaeology and History of Ancient and Medieval Black Sea Region

2025. No. 20

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Orynbay Оshanov (Almaty, Kazakhstan). Ancient caravan routes of Western Saryarka	7
Gaukhar Kaldybayeva (Almaty, Kazakhstan), Zhanar Yelemessova (Zhambyl village,Kazakhstan). Steppe code: identity signs (tamga—type) of the nayman tribe(second half of 18^th — early 20^thc.)	16
Luc Hermann (Stavelot, Belgium), Pavel Lurje (St. Petersburg, Russia), Gamal Soronkulov (Talas, Kyrgyzstan), Laurence Delwiche (Talas, Kyrgyzstan), Azamat Asein Uulu (Tash-Aryk, Kyrgyzstan). The new rock art site of Durdana (Talas region) in Kyrgyzstan with tamgas and two new Sogdian inscriptions	33
Aizhan Baigazh (Astana, Kazakhstan), Aida Nurbayeva (Almaty, Kazakhstan). Weapon terminology in the turko-mongolic area: a lexico-semantic typology	49
Assemgul Kassenova (Almaty, Kazakhstan). The stone-cutting tradition of Saryarka and the cultural continuity of stone sculptures	75
Sergey Bolelov (Moscow, Russia), Zhanbolat Utubayev (Jezqazgan, Kazakhstan). The lower Syr Darya and its role in transcontinental trade routes and cultural interactions(second half of the 1^st millennium BCE)	85
Arman Beisenov (Almaty, Kazakhstan), Aleksandr Panichkin (Almaty, Kazakhstan), Perdekhan Musyrmankul (Astana, Kazakhstan). Issyk type dagger from the National museum of the Republic of Kazakhstan: results of metallographic analysis	103
Aidos Chotbaev(Almaty, Kazakhstan), Igor Gorashchuk (Samara, Russia). Weapons of the Saka elite: reconstruction of a decorated dagger using the method of experimental modelling	111
Albina Yerzhanova (Almaty, Kazakhstan), Alexander Goryachev (Almaty, Kazakhstan), Mikhail Chernov (Almaty, Kazakhstan), Mikhail Antonov (Almaty, Kazakhstan). Production and functional use of bone and antler implements in the Bronze age: evidence from the Turgen-II complex (Jetisu, South-Eastern Kazakhstan)	121
Rinat Zhumatayev (Almaty, Kazakhstan), Mambet Shagirbaev (Almaty, Kazakhstan), Nurnazar Galymzhan (Almaty, Kazakhstan). New data on archaeozoology of the Eleke sazy 2 settlement: animal husbandry and economic activities in the Tarbagatai foothills during the bronze age	139
Talgat Mamirov(Semey, Kazakhstan), Viktor Merts (Pavlodar, Kazakhstan). On the “first evidence for the late Paleolithic in Kazakhstan”and new concepts	159
Kseniya Kolobova (Novosibirsk, Russia), Dmitry Kobylkin (Irkutsk, Russia), Victor Bogdanov (Irkutsk, Russia), Anastasiya Kolyasnikova (Novosibirsk, Russia), Ekaterina Bocharova (Novosibirsk, Russia), Vladimi Kharevich (Novosibirsk, Russia), Igor Tyugashev (Novosibirsk, Russia), Pavel Chistyakov (Novosibirsk, Russia), Alena Kharevich (Novosibirsk, Russia). Paleogeographic and paleoecological context of the second Neanderthal migration wave to the Altai	167
Abbreviations	181
Submissions	183