Layouts of funeral complexes of the Andronovo (Fedorovo) culture from Tartas-1 gravel: to the problem statement

The article presents the generalization of the materials of the burial complexes of the Andronovo (Fedorovo) culture at the Tartas-1 burial ground (central part of the Baraba forest-steppe). Tartas -1 has been studied for 15 years. The most representative part of the site is the funerary complexes of the Andronovo (Fedorovo) culture, their number is growing up in the course of excavations and now it is more than 500 burials. In the field season of 2018, new information was obtained adding new facts to the research data of previous years. During the analysis of the sources, it was concluded that the differences in the identified variants of the Andronovo (Fedorovo) funeral rite indicate that their main elements were formed on the basis of the same cultural tradition under completely different historical conditions and in considerable isolation from one another.