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CAES editorial team waits for your contributions for CAES Vol. 8, N 1 that is going to be published in early March 2022. The deadline for submission is February 15.

Editor’s foreword Think pieces: Social aspects of Neolithic technology of firing pottery in bonfires Alexander Akulov Firing pottery was one of the most complicated Neolithic technologies since it requires certain natural conditions to be met and the existence of an organized group that could successfully make firing. Such group/team consists of a person that can […]

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CAES editorial team waits for your paper for CAES Vol. 7, № 4 that is going to be published in the middle of December 2021.

The deadline is December 05, 2021.

Editor’s foreword Think pieces: The bear stones of Olkhovka Alexander Akulov The complex of sacral stones of Olkhovka is usually dated to the Iron Age and to the Middle Ages. However, there are some facts indicating that the stones could be used by the Neolithic people yet. Finnish/Karelian name of Olkhovka was Lapinlahti (literally: “Sami […]

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CAES editorial team calls for your papers for CAES Vol. 7, № 3 that is going to be published in late September 2021.

Think pieces: Estimating the degree of resemblance of assemblages of stone axes/adzes Alexander Akulov To estimate the index of resemblance of two collections of stone axes/adzes, it is necessary to compare the following characteristics: 1) the total numbers of items of the compared collections, 2) the distributions of the material of which the items were […]

CAES editorial team waits for your papers for CAES Vol. 7, № 2, that is going to be published in late May – early June 2021. The deadline for submission is May 15.

Editor’s foreword Think pieces: Northeast Caucasian languages and the Ainu-Minoan stock Alexander Akulov The hypothesis that Northwest and Northeast Caucasian languages are related was proposed by S. A. Starostin, however, the methodology used by Starostin (comparison of the so-called basic vocabulary) cannot resolve the question of whether the compared languages are related. The only tool […]

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CAES editors team awaits for your papers for CAES Vol. 7, N 1 that is going to be published in late February 2021.

Editor’s foreword Think pieces: Alexander Akulov Interpreting the proximity values of potsherds collections received by the Monte Carlo method Alexander Akulov If we are going to learn to what degree the collection of potsherds x belonging to the technocomplex X is close to the collection y belonging to the technocomplex Y, then the degree of […]

Dear Colleagues!CAES editorial team awaits your papers for CAES Vol. 6, № 4 that is going to be published in the middle of December 2020.

Think pieces: Substrate lexis of Kildin Sami interpreted through languages belonging to the Western branch of the Ainu-Minoan stock: some notes on the language of Paja ul deˀŋ Alexander Akulov In Kildin Sami there are about 30 words which have no convincing Finno-Ugric/Uralic (or any other) etymologies. 8 of them can be interpreted through languages […]

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CAES editorial team calls for your papers for CAES Vol. 6, № 3, that is going to be published in the second half of September 2020. The deadline for submission is August 17, 2020.

Editor’s foreword Articles: Buyeo group and Manchu Alexander Akulov In this paper the question of relatedness of the Manchu language and Buyeo group is resolved by Verb Grammar Correlation Index (VGCI). The method supposes a direct comparison of really existing/existed languages. The method is based on the idea that language is ordered pair <A; Ω> […]