Kantuba-2 burial mounds in Southern Transurals

The article is devoted to the publication of the results of the excavation of the three Kantuba -2 burial mounds in the Uchali District of the Republic of Bashkortostan. The burials in Mounds 1 and 3 contain the remains of cremation accompanied by clay vessels. The vessels combine the features of the Alakul and Fedorovka cultures of the Late Bronze Age. The syncretic Alakul’-Fedorovka burials have only been found in and near the Chelyabinsk District. The materials of the Kantuba-2 burials make it possible to pre-allocate one more zone of the Alakul’-Fedorovka archaeological sites: the Eastern slopes of the Uraltau ridge. In the later period a Muslim cemetery was located over the mounds of the Kantuba-2 burials. We investigated seven burials performed according to Muslim rites with some deviations which are the remnants of paganism. They are the construction of a mound over the burial (Mound 2), the absence of a side niche, a bead found in one burial. The Muslim cemetery belongs to the Bashkirs and dates to a historic period close to modern time.