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World Archaeological Bulletin

Number Eight

Contents

Introduction
Julian Thomas

PART 1: RUSSIA

Preface: Archaeological Theory in Action - The Post Soviet Vision

Non-Archaeological Theory and the Problem of Cultural Heritage
V.D. Gukin, I.V. Manzura, R.A. Rabinovich and M.E. Tkachuk

The Use of Ethnographic Models in the Reconstruction of Social and Economic Patterns (with Reference to Materials from Research Undertaken in Siberia)
L.I. Koyakova and A.S Sergeyev

On the Bibliographical and Directory of World Theoretical Archaeology: A Project
l.S. Klejn

Arl-Tree/Tumulus: A Project for Establishing a Database on Materials  from Excavations of Stepp-Land Tumuli and its Practical Application
M.V. Andreyeva, G.G. Dzhanikyan, I.A. Sorokina

Aspects of the Palaeo-sociological Approach in Soviet Archaeology
E.P. Bunyatyan

An Assessment of the Experimental/Use-Wear Approach to the Study of Stone-Knapping Technology
E.Y. Girya

Burial - The Historical Phenomenon
Yuri Smirnov

The End of Theoretical Archaeology: The Silent Conflict between Theory and Practice
Victor Trifonov

Theory and Method in Contemporary Russian Palaeolithic Archaeology
Sergei A Vasil'ev

Church Archaeology in Russia: Past and Future Prospects
Deacon Alexander Musin

Middle Palaeolithic Burials in Eurasia: New Approaches and Traditional Interpretations - A View from Eastern Europe
V.A. Alyokshin

The Search for Mechanisms of Cultural Change in Prehistory: From Theory to Stone Tools and Back
L. Vishnyatsky

PART 2: POLAND

Introduction
Arkendiuz Marciniak

Polish Archaeology: Reality and Challenges of the 1990's
Paul M. Bradford and Stanislaw Tabaczynski

A Short History of Polish Archaeology
Jacek Lech

Theoretical Traditions in Contemporary Polish Archaeology
Danatu Minta-Tworzowska and Wlodzimerz Raczkowski

Main Directions in Neolithic Studies in Poland in the Second Half of the 20th Century
Lech Czerniak

Bronze and Early Iron Age Research in Poland
Janusz Kokwski

Research on the Pre-Roman and Roman Periods in Postwar Poland
Andrezej Kokowski

Early Medieval Archaeology in Poland: Successes and Failures
Zbigniew Kobylinski

Urban Archaeology in Poland
Przemyslaw Urbanczuk

Studying Archaeology in Poland
Przemyslaw Krajewski

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