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This volume presents contributions in honour of Askold Ivantchik on his sixtieth birthday. Since his main academic interest lies in the Black Sea region in ancient times inhabited by diverse cultural groups who also had frequent contacts with people from far beyond, we collected articles on this topic. The volume presents papers analyzing different kinds of sources and using various approaches to reveal networking and agency of peoples that belong to different social strata and cultural milieus. It will be of interest for scholars looking for multidisciplinary research methods as well as for the newest information about the archaeology of the Circumpontic region.

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Valentina Mordvintseva, Ph.D. (1996) is a specialist in archaeology of Eurasian nomads focusing on cultural processes in the North Pontic region in Hellenistic and Roman times. She published more than 200 articles and 5 monographs, including Sarmatische Phaleren (2001) and Toreutik und Schmuck im nördlichen Schwarzmeergebiet. 2. Jh. v.Chr. – 2. Jh.n.Chr. (2007, together with Mikhail Treister). Anna Ivanova is a researcher at the Institute of World History of the Russian Academy of Sciences working on the relations between the Greek and the Eastern states in the archaic and classical periods. Svyatoslav Smirnov, Ph.D. (2011), is a senior researcher at the Institute of World History of the Russian Academy of Sciences. His fields of research are numismatics and politics of the Hellenistic period, which can be seen from a monograph The State of Seleukus I, Politics, Economics, Society (2013) and an ongoing project Seleukid Coins Russian Collections. With contributions by: I. Tunkina, V. Cojocaru, A. Podossinov, A. Coşkun, D. Braund, A. Bresson, D. Merkin, V. Kuznetsov, M. Treister, A.Belinskij, Y. Berezin, H. Härke, S. Smirnov, E. Zakharov, M. Abramzon, Fr.de Callataÿ, Yu. Dzitstsoity, A. Falileyev, I. Arkhipov, W. Kuntner, S. Heinsch, M. Minardi, V. Licheli, and P. Lurje.

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