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Abstract

This article is a review to the multi-authored monograph Believes & Cults of Ancient and Medieval Southern Urals. The authors of the volume are researchers of Institute of History, Language and Literature of the Federal State Budgetary Institution of the Ufa Federal Research Center of the Russian Academy of Sciences. The monograph’s authors consider this research a resumption of the 5-volume series Archaeology & Ethnography of Bashkiria. The series was published in Ufa between 1962 and 1973. The research team has developed of the most complicated issued related to believes and cults of the Ancient and Medieval Southern Urals. Now they offer this vision to the audience. The foundation of the research is majorly comprised with archaeological, as well as historical and ethnographic sources. The book contains a lot of evidential materials and provides a proprietary interpretation of believes and cults of the Southern Urals from Paleolithic to Middle Ages. The volume consists of a foreword, an introduction, four chapters, a conclusion and a list of references. Chapter one reviews the believes and cults of the Stone Age. Chapter two is dedicated to the believes and cults found in the Southern Urals in the Bronze Age. Chapters three and four review the believes and cults spread across this region during the Early Iron Age and Middle Ages. The review indicates a number of drawbacks that do not really affect the significance of the completed work. In general, the monograph is a contribution to the issue of spiritual culture of the ancient and medieval people of the Southern Urals.