Drevnie kul'tury Srednei Azii i Indii / pod redaktsiei V.M. Massona.

In Russian; English contents list. - Includes bibls. at end of chapters. - At head of title: Akademiia Nauk SSSR, Institut Arkheologii. - Covers from the palaeolithic period to the Middle Ages. - Contents: Palaeoenvironments and prehistory in the middle Son valley in north Madhya Pradesh / G.R. Sharma, D.D. Clark; Ancient hunter-gathering cultures and the transition to farming-based settled life in India / V.N. Misra [V.N. Mishra],; Epipalaeolithic and mesolithic cultures in the Vindhyas and the Ganga valley / B.B. Misra [Mishra], R.K. Varma, V.D. Misra [Mishra]; The Vindhyan neolithic (a new centre of the early farming communities of India) / D. Mandal; Chalcolithic culture of the northern Vindhyas and the Ganga valley (origin and evolution) / G.R. Sharma, B.B. Misra [Mishra], J. N. Pal [D.N. Pal]; Neolithic-chalcolithic food economy of eastern Uttar Pradesh / Vishnu-Mittre, K.A. Sharma; Formation of ancient civilisation in Central Asia and Indostan / V.M. Masson; Aryan and non-Aryan in ancient India / G.M. Bongard-Levin; A few points of comparison between Inamgaon, a chalcolithic village in Maharashtra (1500 B.C.) and Altin-Depe [Altyn-depe] in south Turkmenistan / H.D. Sankalia; The preharappan culture in India / Y.D. Sharma; A problem of formation of early urban culture in the south of Uzbekistan and its connections with Hindustan / A. A. Askarov; Copper hoards from Rajastan, Haryana and Uttar Pradesh - a study in interrelationship / R.C. Agrawala; The painted grey ware culture / B.B. Lal; New date about Atharvaveda's dating (basing [sic = based] upon the archaeological sources / R.N. Mehta; The word arya - a semantic study / V.S. Pathak; The finds of horse bones in prearyan archaeological sites of India / K.R. Alur; Investigation of Buddhist monuments in Merve / G.A. Koshelenko; Armenian historians of the 5th - 7th centuries on India / R.M. Dzhanpoladyan [Dzhanpoladian]; The Ustrushana pantheon of deities and demons and its Indo-Iranian similarities and roots / N.N. Negmatov; On the question of Central Asian - Indian contacts in ancient and mediaeval painting / M.M. Ashrafi; The study of Hinduism in Russian and USSR - some results and perspectives / R.B. Rybakov.

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