Burial Complex Research Articles

«AND GIRLS AMAZONS ACCUSTOMED TO ARMS, HORSES AND HUNTING…»

According to ancient authors Amazons treated their new-borns differently. They usually gave the boys to their fathers. At the same time, they raised the girls themselves. Moreover, the girls since childhood were taught martial art and hunting. That is, first of all they were taught archery and horseback riding. Based on these data, we drew attention to the Scythian girls’ graves with weapons.
 17 such burials of girls are known today in the area of European Scythia. They are fixed on the territory of the Steppe Dnieper Region, Crimea, Transnistria and Don Region.
 All children’s graves are individual except for one (with a teenager-servant). Only two of them were robbed in antiquity.
 All graves (with one exception) were excavated in the kurhans. An analysis of the types of burial structures showed that undercut graves and catacombs predominate. Simple pits are represented by only two cases. The spread of these types of graves on different regions coincides with the same graves of adult Amazons.
 All burials were made according to the rite of inhumation. The western orientation of the dead is predominant. In general, burial sites, rites and anthropological types of Amazons are identical to those recorded for the population of European Scythia.
 Material support is divided in three main groups: 1) universal (meat meals with a knife and utensils); 2) Female (spindles with spinners, earrings, necklace, bracelets, rings, stone dishes); 3) Male (weapons, horse bridles, hryvnias). The combination of the components of these kits has usually marked the burial of the Amazons. The nature of the weapon shows that it was intended primarily for the remote combat.
 The evidence of social stratification is, first of all, the size of burial structures and the composition of material support. According to these indicators, three social groups are distinguished in the Amazon girls’ environment.
 The chronological range of the burial complexes of girls with weapons is determined from the end of the 5th to 3—2 centuries BC. However, the main group of these tombs is dated 4th century B.C.

CHRISTIAN BURIAL GROUNDS OF UPLAND DAGESTAN 
 (BASED ON THE JOINT DAGESTAN-GEORGIAN 
 ARCHEOLOGICAL EXPEDITION)

The paper proposes material of the study of medieval burial grounds of upland Dagestan, obtained during the joint Dagestan-Georgian archeological expedition, which was carried out in Central Upland Dagestan, in the territory of the former Sarir, in 1977-1981. As a result of a comprehensive work, in addition to archeological, architectural, ethnographic and epigraphic monuments, the following medieval burial grounds were studied: Tad-raal, Akhalchinsky, Uradinsky, Khunzakhsky. These burial grounds have been identified with burials dating back to the X-XIV centuries, as well as one burial belonging to the XIX century. Identified medieval burials comprise three types of burial structures: 1) burials in ground pits of rectangular elongated shape; 2) burials in rectangular stone boxes; 3) burials in soil pits of elongated rectangular shape with ledges-shoulders and slabs of horizontal overlaps. The Tad-raal burial of XIX century was made in a wood coffin.The article provides a detailed description of the revealed burial complexes, characterizes the construction of their structures, funeral rite, funeral set and dating of burials. Using the method of comparative analysis of structural features of burial structures and equipment, the dating of the functioning of burial grounds is specified. The considered material allows to conclude on active historical ties of mountain Dagestan with medieval Georgia, as well as the spread of Christianity among the local population. At the same time, it is noted that the expressive and peculiar local culture has preserved the features of the previous epoch, which is reflected in the funeral rite and funeral structures.

Курганне поховання бронзового часу біля села Прогресівка на лівому березі Тилігульського лиману

У статті висвітлюються результати рятівних робіт на пошкодженій пам’ятці археології на території Ташинської сільської ради Березанського району Миколаївської області, на північ від села Прогресівка. Розкривається історія археологічних робіт на Березанщині. Дається коротка характеристика поховань та попередня ідентифікація. Розглянуті три поховання, одне з яких – парне. Два поховання відносяться до бабинської історико-культурної спільноти кінця першої – початку другої чверті ІІ тисячоліття до Р.Х. а одне, з великою вірогідністю, до рубежу ер (сарматський час).

Female Burials in the Thirteenth Through Fourteenth Centuries. The Nogoon Gozgor 1 Burial Site in the Northern Khövsgöl Area

ABSTRACT In July 2017, a joint archeological expedition from Irkutsk National Research Technical University and Ulaanbaatar State University excavated at the Nogoon Gozgor 1 burial site in the Northern Khövsgöl area. The initial plan was to conduct the work at two burial complexes, nos. 5 and 6. By the beginning of the excavation it was clear that burial no. 6 had been plundered by modern-day grave robbers: a grave robbers’ shaft with a depth of up to 1.2 meters had been sunk in the center of the above-grave structure. Uncovered in excavation heaps of discarded soil were human and sheep bones and fragments of silk textile depicting peonies and parrots, stylized clouds, and undulating ornamentations. An excavation with an area of 32 square meters was marked out at grave no. 5. Discovered under oval masonry work 5 by 3 meters in size at a depth of 75 to 80 centimeters below the modern-daysurface of the land were the remains of a buried woman and pieces of a bokka—a birchbark frame for a headdress. It is the first time such an object has been found in the Northern Khövsgöl area. It has been established that the Nogoon Gozgor 1 burial site dates to the thirteenth through fourteenth centuries and was left by the indigenous population, connected to the global historical and cultural processes flowing through Eurasia in the era of the Mongol Empire.

Особенности погребального обряда андроновского населения в контактной зоне Северо-Западного Алтая (по материалам могильника Сигнал-I)

Особенности погребального обряда андроновского населения в контактной зоне Северо-Западного Алтая (по материалам могильника Сигнал-I)

Новые материалы погребений средневековой элиты в Урском археологическом микрорайоне

The article presents the results of excavations at the Biryul burial mound in the Ur Urban Archaeological Microdistrict on the territory of the Kuznetsk Depression. Excavation materials are considered as a single peculiar burial complex, requiring justification of dating and ethnocultural interpretation. The elements of the funeral rite and inventory have been described, classified and analyzed. Based on the typological classification of the finds, a comparative analysis has been carried out with materials from the funerary sites of the Kuznetsk Basin and adjacent territories. During the study, medieval sites have been identified that bear the greatest resemblance to the investigated burial complex: the mound-cemetery of Sapogovo-2 and the burial mounds of Sapogovo and Saratovka. By analogy to the inventory and the proximity of the burial sites, the Biryulya Kurgan group was dated to the 11th – 12th centuries and attributed to the Saratov archaeological culture at the third stage of its development in the Kuznetsk depression. It is noted that the investigated burial complex belongs to the elite category and has a high level of uniqueness with respect to synchronous and monocultural sites.

A brittleness evaluation method based on breaking energy theory for tight reservoir in Dagang Oilfield

The tight reservoirs in Dagang Oilfield are deep in burial depth and complex in lithology, and the brittleness evaluation methods commonly used at home and abroad are not accurate enough to effectively guide the design of fracturing. As a result, the fracturing in the early days was low in success rate and not ideal in effect. In this study, from the perspective of breaking energy theory, based on a large number of core experiments, the factors affecting rock failure morphology have been analysed by using the breaking energy theory, and a brittleness evaluation method more suitable for the physical properties of tight reservoirs in Dagang Oilfield has been worked out. The results show that the main parameters affecting brittleness of tight reservoirs in Dagang Oilfield are Young’s modulus, dilatancy angle and peak strain. The correlation coefficient between the brittle index from the new method based on breaking energy theory and rock failure complexity increases to 0.789 compared with 0.329 of the brittle index from Rickman’s evaluation method. The new method solves the problem that previous brittleness index models at home and abroad are not suitable for tight reservoirs in Dagang Oilfield, and provides a theoretical basis for evaluating the fracability of tight reservoirs and improving fracturing effect in Dagang Oilfield.

RAGAM HIAS NISAN KOMPLEKS PEMAKAMAN RAJA KOTALAMA, KABUPATEN INDRAGIRI HULU, PROVINSI RIAU

The cemetery of the King Kotalama complex is the Indragiri royal burial complex of the islamic-style period of Narasinga II. This study focused on the type of ornament that developed in the burial complex of the king of Kotalama. Decoration can provide information about the development of art culture during the reign of Narasinga II. The method used to answer these problems is through morphological analysis and stylistic analysis, in order to find out the types of decorations. The developing decoration shows that the community acculturates the old culture and the new culture. The ornamental variety consists of flora, geometric and calligraphy.

Могильник Сосновый Мыс в Северном Приангарье: анализ погребального обряда и результаты радиоуглеродного датирования

The article presents the results of the study of 8 burial complexes of the Sosnovyi Mys burial ground. The article contains all the information about the history of the discovery and study of this archaeological site. We describe the geographical location and geomorphological structure of the burial ground deposits and give a complete description of the burial complexes No. 1–8 (excavation # 1, archaeological works of 2011). The analysis of individual elements of the mortuary tradition is carried out. Some similarities and differences with synchronous burials on the territory of the Southern Angara region have been revealed. All burials were divided into three groups based on the analysis of the mortuary tradition elements: 1) burials # 2, 4, 5, 7, 8; 2) burial # 3; 3) destroyed burials # 1 and 6. Published in the article radiocarbon dating results showed the Neolithic age of most burial complexes. The exception is burial No. 3, which belongs to the Early Bronze Age. Analyzing the radiocarbon AMS dates, we can state the high ratio of stable carbon and nitrogen isotopes ( δ 13 C and δ 15 C ) obtained for a human bone sample. These data indicate a high trophic level of the humans, which points out the presence of a freshwater reservoir effect (FRE). A special study of this problem has not been conducted yet for the Northern Angara Region, so it is not possible to determine the radiocarbon offsets. The complexes of the Sosnovyi Mys burial ground may be synchronous with the late phase of the Kitoi burial tradition (the finale of the Early Neolithic). However, if the value of the correction for the FRE is ever calculated and turns out to be the same as in the Baikal region (or more significant), then the age of the burials may be determined by the beginning of the Middle Neolithic, which is determined by the period 7027 ± 33 – 5571 ± 88 cal BP. The search for analogies to the features of the mortuary tradition and categories of grave goods with the materials of the Southern Angara region is carried out. The main problem of further study of the burial ground materials is the determination of the correction value of the FRE based on the dating of human bones, as well as finds and individual animal bones directly related to the burial complexes for the entire territory of the Northern Angara region.

The Use of 3D-Modeling for Reconstructing the Appearance and Function of Non-Utilitarian Items (the Case of Anthropomorphic Figurines from Tourist-2)

This article presents the results of study of an Early Bronze ivory figurine from Tourist-2, using 3D-scanning with various technical parameters. The aim of the study was to test the new non-invasive methods of structured light 3D-scanning, with an accurate assessment of morphometric characteristics. In addition, use-wear analysis was employed to evaluate the previously unknown features relating to function. As a result, the original appearance of the figurine, the manufacturing technique, and iconographic characteristics were reconstructed. A series of transverse sections and the evaluation of the center of mass, combined with previously known features, suggest that the figurine was a personal ornament sewn onto clothing. For comparison, two flat anthropomorphic sculptures (a buckle made of burl, and a shale figurine) from the same burial complex were analyzed. Longitudinal sections suggest that, despite morphological and technological differences and the fact that various raw materials had been used, the iconographic style of all items is one and the same.

ДЖ. Б. КАВИЛЬЯ И НАЧАЛО АРХЕОЛОГИЧЕСКОГО ИЗУЧЕНИЯ СКАЛЬНЫХ ГРОБНИЦ ВОСТОЧНОЙ ОКРАИНЫ ГИЗЫ

The paper continues a series of publications dealing with early explorers who contributed to the study of the eastern escarpment of the Giza Necropolis. Its protagonist is the Italian antiquarian Giovanni Battista Caviglia, the author of the first documented archaeological works in rock-cut tombs on the territory of the modern-day Russian concession at the pyramids. The paper argues that the Italian researcher had access to many burial complexes both in the southern and in the northern parts of the necropolis area currently studied by specialists from the Institute of Oriental Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences. Contemporary reports demonstrate that Caviglia not only excavated ancient tombs, but also lived in one of the rock-cut complexes and used rock-cut chapels as storerooms for his finds. In 1835, the British officer Howard Vyse, who hired Caviglia for his excavations at Giza, built a large camp at the eastern escarpment of the necropolis. The author locates the camp in front of the tombs of Perinendju, Tjenty I, Tjenty II, and Khufuhotep and examines its fate: After the end of British excavations in 1837, the camp was converted into the first hotel at the foot of the pyramids. Narrative and visual materials presented in works of explorers of the first half of the 19th century correspond neatly with the material culture artifacts retrieved in Giza during contemporary Russian excavations. Despite the disappearance of the camp built by Vyse, the occupation layer preserved in the rock-cut tombs contains numerous finds and complexes that can be dated to the 18th–19th centuries. A thorough study of the activities and field practices of early explorers in the age of antiquarianism contributes to the better understanding of the general stratigraphy of the Giza Necropolis and works toward more accurate interpretation of the archaeological evidence obtained by contemporary specialists at the foot of the pyramids.

Kalmaniemi 1 – a burial complex of the viking age in the northern ladoga littoral

Kalmaniemi 1 – a burial complex of the viking age in the northern ladoga littoral

Археологические изыскания Алтайской археологической экспедиции в 2019 году

In the field season of 2019, archaeological explorations were carried out on the territory of the Kurchumand Zaysan regions of East Kazakhstan region. As a result, settlement and burial complexes of theBronze Age, Early Iron Age and the middle Ages were discovered. A new location of the petroglyphsof the Early Iron Age was recorded. An analysis of the topography showed that the oldest necropoliseswere located in the floodplain of the river; monuments of the Bronze Age are located separately fromother monuments of the region. Settlements are localized on flat areas of tracts, as a rule, at the foot ofhills. According to topographic analysis, some monuments of the Iron Age coincide in design with suchlate monuments as the Duanaly.A new medieval urban settlement was discovered near the village ofZhinishkesu (Zaysan district, East Kazakhstan region). According to the preliminary analysis of the liftingceramic material, the monument dates back to us from the 7th–9th centuries.

Поховання катакомбної культури міжріччя Дніпра та Дону з бронзовими ножами.

The purpose of the article is to systematize and analyze the burials of the Middle Bronze Age between the Dnieper and Don rivers, which correspond to the area of the Donetsk-Don catacomb culture containing the bronze knives. The study is based on the use of methods such as comparative, historical and typological, statistical. In particular, statistical analysis shows that burials with the bronze knives of a catacomb culture is not considered to be ordinary. This is evidenced by the saturation of the accompanying burial stock, which exceeds the average indicators. It has also been found that there are correlates between burials with bronze knives and other weapons such as arrowheads, spear / dart tips, mace and ax. Some part of the bronze knives could act as weapons, moreover non-specialized weapons. To evaluate such findings in burials, it is important to analyze the accompanying inventory and other context. The relevance of this area of research to the catacomb cultural community is the lack of a generally accepted view of the significance and scope of this element of burial complexes in scientific circles. Today, there are several approaches of interpreting knives: first, as part of a table set (caused by a stable combination in burials with an awl and considered as a knife and fork), and second, as a matter of purely household use (such understanding is predominantly predetermined because of small metric characteristics of the blade), thirdly, as a weapon. As a result of the analysis of burials containing the bronze knives, it was found that all the proposed approaches are realistic. But it should be borne in mind that a bronze knife is an important marker of high life status and, despite its morphometric characteristics, can carry a semiotic load of weapons, and therefore provide a "military color" to the burial. It can be assumed that not all warriors had such high stakes to secure themselves with the metal weapons. A combat knife can attest to the high property status of the deceased.

Исследования некрополя Петровского археологического комплекса слушателями Археологического института в 1880 г

This paper presents results of the first excavations carried out in the area of the Petrovskoye archaeological complex by the Director and students of the Saint Petersburg Archaeological Institute on July 12–13, 1880. The absence of reporting documents and the complicated fate of the collection of finds have led to the loss of principally important data, such as the location of the mounds within the territory of the burial ground, plans and sections of the barrows, and descrip- tions of the state of preservation of the burial complexes. The main source of information is represented by an item in a periodical of 1880 enabling us to obtain a general idea how the excavations took place. The collection of the State Hermitage contains finds from excavations of seven kurgans comprising 43 pieces. The materials concerned with these investigations include both the objects fairly well known from Old-Russian burials and unique finds from this cemetery.

Al-Shabakāt al-ijtimā‘īyah wa al-fikrīyah bayn muslimī Lombok wa Sumatera: Dirāsah fī tuḥfah wa makhṭūṭ Sasak

This article discusses the socio-intellectual networking of Indonesian Muslim communities, especially in Sumatra and Lombok communities. The relationship between them is observed through ancient manuscripts and artifacts, while the philological and archeological approach are utilized to reconstruct its history. From these two primary sources, this article finds that the Sumatra-Lombok relationship had long existed and both of them had been influencing one another. One of the pieces of evidence held by the Sasak People in West Nusa Tenggara proves this influence existence. It is also supported by the existence of Malay-language manuscripts which are currently kept by the Sasak people. Supporting the written evidence, archaeological evidence also espouses the article’s argument wherein it can be found from the presence of Aceh's gravestones found in Raja Selaparang's burial complex in Lombok, West Nusa Tenggara. On the basis of these two historical sources, the article proves that the connectedness of the Sumatran-Lombok community had existed before the era of the Islamic kingdom in the Nusantara. When the emergence of the Islamic empire, the relationship between the two was even further strengthened by the presence of the scholars from both regions who came and settled in Mecca.

NEW DATA ON THE DENTAL CHARACTERISTICS EXHIBITED BY THE POPULATION OF THE KULAYKA CULTURE IN THE NOVOSIBIRSK OB AREA

The article covers the results of a study on the odontological series from the Kamenny Mys burial ground (3rd–2nd centuries BC). In this work, we set out to study the genesis of the Kulay population of the Early Iron Age in the Novosibirsk Ob area. The main relations of the population with the groups of adjacent territories, as well as the nature of their interaction with the local groups, were determined. The odontological series from the Kamenny Mys burial ground includes the teeth of 24 individuals: 12 males, 6 females and 10 adult individuals whose gender could not be determined. The anthropological materials were examined according to a standard procedure, which involves the description of the tooth crown morphology considering the archaic features of the dental morphology. Also, an intergroup comparative analysis was performed via the method of the principal component analysis using the program STATISTICA version 10.0. It was established that the dental characteristics exhibited by the Kulayka population reveal signs of mixed European-Mongoloid formation with a significant predominance of the Eastern component. We compared the morphological characteristics of the sample with data obtained for the populations of the Bronze Age and the Early Iron Age. The intergroup comparison revealed the closest connection between the Bolshaya Rechka culture and the Kulayka group. The studied material provides anthropological confirmation of the interaction between Kulayka (taiga) and Bolshaya Rechka traditions (steppe), drawing on the data about the burial rite and ceramic complexes. The comparison of the Kulayka series with Bronze Age samples suggests that the forest-steppe populations occupying the territories of the Novosibirsk and Tomsk Ob and the Ob-Irtysh areas had no effect on the genesis of the Kulayka population. We suppose that the origins of the Kulayka population in the Novosibirsk Ob area should be traced to the populations from the West Siberian taiga of the Bronze Age, which is significantly complicated by the lack of sufficiently complete and representative series dating back to the specified period from the territory of the Middle Ob area. Further accumulation of anthropological material from the Middle Ob area will provide the opportunity to trace the genesis of taiga populations of the Early Iron Age.

BIOARCHAEOLOGY OF CHILDREN AND ADOLESCENTS OF THE EARLY BRONZE AGE ON THE BASIS OF MATERIALS FROM THE BURIAL GROUNDS OF THE VOLGOGRAD REGION

The paper studies the burials and anthropological materials of children (Early Bronze Age; Yamna culture), originating from the burial complexes of the Lower Volga using the method of paleopathological examination of skeletal remains and through the interpretation of the archaeological material. The skeletal remains of seven indi-viduals whose age did not exceed 15–16 years were examined. The bone material exhibited varying degrees of preservation. In 6 skeletal remains, only fragments of the cranium were examined, whereas in 5 individuals it was possible to examine the postcranial remains along with the skull bones. In this study, we applied a procedure for studying pathological abnormalities in the human skeleton developed by A.P. Buzhilova [1998]. Different me-thodological recommendations were used when recording bone porosis [Ortner, Ericksen, 1997; Ortner, Putschar, 1981; Lukacs, et al., 2001; Brown, Ortner, 2011; Maclellan, 2011]. The analysis of anthropological series helped to assess the incidence of porotic hyperostosis of eye sockets (cribra orbitalia) and cranial roof bones; to detect the signs of inflammatory processes in the bones of the postcranial skeleton in the form of periostitis, inflamma-tion on the inner surface of the bones of the cranial vault, as well as the pathological conditions of the dental sys-tem [Hegen, 1971; Stuart-Macadam, 1992; Waldron et al., 2009; Walker et al., 2009; Suby, 2014; Zuckerman et al., 2014]. The analysis of archaeological materials from children's burials of the Early Bronze Age revealed that almost all burials of children and adolescents are inlet, i.e. they do not have their individual barrows. The collec-tion of items is extremely small and is primarily represented by ceramics of very poor quality. A low proportion of children's burials attributed to the Yamna culture is observed in the Lower Volga burial grounds. As a rule, chil-dren are buried together with adults, so separate burials are very rare. Two of the seven studied individuals were 4 to 7 years old, while the remaining five individuals were buried at the age of 8–16. The reason for the small number of children's burials of the Yamna culture is associated with the low social status of the immature part of the population, which, in turn, may suggest some special, poorly fixed archaeologically, burial ritual for the bulk of children, given that subsequently the number of children's individual burials increased quite significantly on the same territory. Nevertheless, their design and accompanying items are not much different from those of adult burials. Young individuals of the Early Bronze Age are characterised by markers of episodic stress that occurred during various periods of childhood, predominantly from 2 to 4 years old. The stress can be associated with the transition from the dairy diet to the solid food diet. The widespread occurrence of tartar in immature individuals can indicate the specificity of their diet, which was based on soft and, possibly, fatty food. In addition, it may indi-cate a lack of oral hygiene, which is quite natural for the historical period. Vitamin deficiency recorded in the stu-died group results either from exposure to negative factors during the late transition from breastfeeding to solid food or from chronic hunger. Young people of the Early Bronze Age had non-specific inflammations, which, most likely, were not systematic, but occurred sporadically. We can presume that children and adolescents of the stu-died age lived peacefully and participated in the economic activities of the social groups. Being exposed to epi-sodic stresses, immature individuals of the pit culture successfully adapted to environmental factors.

Реконструкция образов «царя» и «царицы» из кургана Аржан-2: особенности, проблемы, пути их решения

Introduction. The article deals with the reconstruction of images of the ‘king’ and ‘queen’ from the Scythian burial complex Arzhan-2 (mid-to-late 7th century BC) undertaken through the use of archaeological and anthropological studies. Arzhan-2 is a monument of world significance located in the Valley of the Kings (Piy-Khemsky District, Republic of Tuva) and is a national heritage of Russia’s peoples. The mound was investigated in 1998–2004 by the Joint Expedition of the State Hermitage Museum (the branch headed by archaeologist K. Chugunov) and the German Archaeological Institute (the branch headed by H. Parzinger and A. Nagler). Goals. The paper seeks to reveal peculiarities and problems faced during the reconstruction of images of the Scythian ‘king’ and ‘queen’, ways of their solution, examines the impact of Russian scientists into the research of Scythian culture, and analyzes activities by associates of Tuva’s National Museum aimed to popularize and preserve monuments of history and culture. The investigation of this Tuva-based Scythian monument was associated with a number of critical questions, such as origins of the buried individuals, identification of respective period and culture, indigenousness, relations to other early nomads of Eurasia and especially to those of Minusinsk Hollow, Altay, Western Mongolia, as well as issues of their anthropology and appearances. Results. The article outlines the history of creation of the images of ‘king’ and ‘queen’, summarizes results of archaeological and anthropological studies by leading Russian researchers that proved instrumental in reconstructing actual appearances and garments of the ‘royal couple’.

Cultural background and chronology of the multisegment populated settlement Salekhard-4 located in the Lower Ob River region

In this paper the authors study the issues of the cultural and chronological attribution of the Salekhard-4 settlement, the historic site, which was studied during the field works in 2017 for the first time. The site is located within the Salekhard city territory. Considering the vast historical and landscape context it should be noted that the territory of the Lower Ob River region (within the area of the modern Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug) includes several natural ranges: Northern taiga, forest tundra and tundra, and geographically spreads up to the Arctic coast. Moreover, it should be outlined that the historical retrospective displays multiple shifts of borders of the abovesaid nature and climatic ranges both, south and the northward, and such shifts affected migration of the ancient population considerably, which is clearly reflected on the archaeological remains. For instance the lower cultural layers of the Salekhard-4 settlement should be referred to the Chalcolithic Period (end of the 4th beginning of the 3rdthousand years AD); this can be confirmed by the found ceramics referred to the Gorny Samotnel settlement. The cultural layers discovered above and containing the settlement and the burial complexes can be attributed to the Heyakh culture of the Late Bronze age (approx. 13thcentury AD). One of the tombs partially containing relics and remains is the subject of special interest as it contains the unviolated funeral accessories. The unique nature of this finding is that for today it is the only Late Bronze age burial located in the region under study. Undamaged condition of the antropological material made it possible to establish the sex and the race of the buried, as well as to determine the approximate age at death. The upper cultural layers of the site under study can be referred to the culture of the Lower Ob River region of the early Middle Ages (1st4thcenturies DC), they contain residuals of a wooden flooring, a fire-forge, and some amount of ceramics.