The first metal in aboriginal taiga-culture of West Siberia and Middle Urals

In the center of attention - the specificity of the transition from the stone age to the age of metal in a taiga of the Ob-Irtysh and mountain-forest Trans-Urals. Explores the model of interaction of cultures in the framework of the Eurasian Metallurgical Province, prospects and barriers for the dissemination of innovation in the environment of the population with the appropriation of the economy. Presented panorama of the dynamics of the cultures of the bronze age of the forest proves the concept of formation of the metallurgy, which has no prospects for self-development in the conditions of cultivation assigning economic forms. Special attention is the «raw» factor, which in certain circumstances provides inclusion of the population of appropriating way of life in orbit metals cultures.