Introduction

In this issue the materials of the Fifth Round Table "Archaeology and geoinformatics" (April 14-15, 2010, Institute of Archaeology, Moscow) are published. Over 50 researchers from the scientific and educational institutions of Russia and Ukraine participated in the meeting. Representatives of the cultural heritage protection organizations from different centres took part in the work: Veliky Novgorod, Izhevsk, Kazan, Kiev, Moscow, St. Petersburg, Stavropol, Cherkessk, Elista. Twenty papers were presented within three sections: 1) GIS in archaeological study; 2) Archaeology and remote sensing data; 3) Geophysical methods in field archaeological study and three-dimensional modelling. Abstracts and presentations, as well as full versions of the papers are published in the current issue of the electronic journal "Archaeology and geoinformatics" (2010). Articles published now are brief variants of selected papers presented at the Round table.