The monuments of Agachev-Kumysh type in the North Caucasus foothills

The article deals with the monument group of Ciscaucasia of the final bronze epoch and the beginning of the early iron age. At the early 1990-s the author of the present article described briefly the group of monuments consisting of the Agachev tomb (Kislovodsk hollow) and the Kumysh tomb (the upper Kuban river basin). The most distinctive features of that group had manifested themselves in the funeral rite (stone boxes) and accessories (ceramics with printed and glued ornaments and small antimony bijouterie). The settlements connected with these monuments have not been revealed yet. The author puts forward an assumption that the population that had left the tombs of the Agachev-Kumysh type had taken part in the cultural genesis of the Kamennomost-Berezovsk (Wester Koban) group of monuments. Also, the author discusses relationship of the Agachev-Kumysh group with other archeological objects, including the cemeteries of the Alikonov-Arkhonskaya group.