pt. 1. The region of earliest research : Cape Prince of Wales and St. Lawrence Island. The legacy of Henry B. Collins / Don E. Dumond. Investigations by Swiss archaeologists on St. Lawrence Island / Hans-Georg Bandi and Reto Blumer. Radiochronological assessment of Neo-Eskimo occupations on St. Lawrence Island, Alaska / Reto Blumer -- pt. 2. Mainland areas : studies in chronology and culture. The early Holocene site of Naivan : the earliest dated site in Chukotka / Sergey V. Gusev. Structural and artistic features of "winged objects" : the discussion continues / Mikhail M. Bronshtein. The technology of bone working among the sea mammal hunting cultures of Bering Strait / S.V. Gusev and M.G. Zhilin. The northeastern Chukchi Peninsula during the Birnirk and early Punuk periods / M.M. Bronshtein and K.A. Dneprovsky. Ekven house H-18 : a Birnirk- and early Punuk-period site in Chukotka / Kirill A. Dneprovsky. Late western Thule house construction in northwest Alaska : the "kobuk-type" house / Christopher E. Young. The erosion front at Ekven : a stratigraphic and geoarchaeological approach / Bernard Moulin and Yvon Csonka. Paleoclimatic records in the Ekven Site : comparisons with data from Alaska / Owen K. Mason -- pt. 3. Matters of subsistence and health. Mammals and birds harvested by early Eskimos of Bering Strait / A.B. Savinetsky. Prehistoric gray whale harvesting in the Bering Strait and Chukchi Sea regions of Alaska : a zooarchaeological assessment / J.M. Savelle and A.P. McCartney. Early and modern populations of Beringia : the problem of adaptation under extreme environmental conditions / Tatyana I. Alekseeva. Early Eskimos of Chukotka : an attempt at bioarchaeological reconstruction / Maria V. Kozlovskaya -- pt. 4. Toward synthesis? Words in closing / Don E. Dumond.