Cultural process and social transformation in epoch of class formation (on the example of early urban cultures of Central Asia)

The article on the basis of historiographic and archaeological materials reveals the cultural genetics of social changes of the era of class formation. Using the example of the settled agricultural cultures of Central Asia (archaeological monuments of Sapallitepa, Djarkutan etc.) shows the ways and stages of the formation of early class societies, the form and nature of social and property differentiation, the genesis of the mechanisms of power and political institutions. In the interpretation of historical and archaeological materials of the first civilizations, the concept of transitional time and the models of multi-vector transformations in the cultural process are used. At the same time, the significance of some ideas of Marx and other evolutionists in understanding the complex nature of historical shifts and transitions at the stage of class formation is noted.