Погребения на поселениях эпохи бронзы Южного Урала: альтернативные, нормативные или девиантные?

Abstract

The unconventional burials are found in every archeological culture. The burials on the settlement's areas of the late Bronze Age seem to be extraordinary. This rite was widespread in the early agricultural communities of Near and Middle East and also on the region of the Ural and Volga rivers in the Sintashtinskaya, Alakulskaya, Fedorovskaya and Srubnaya cultures. The article is devoted to the analyze of the burial complexes from four settlements of the bronze age that had been founded in the Orenburg region. The analysis of these burials gives us the opportunity to reconstruct the world-view of the bronze age's communities.