The early neolithic object with the skull of the bear in the structure of the Fofonovo cemetery

The publication represents the results of the complex analysis of the archaeological object with the skull of the bear that has been found out in the course of the field works on the Fofonovo cemetery. On the basis of the analysis of the archaeozoological and the ethnographic sources it is defined that the investigated object is the evidence of performance of ritual actions by the ancient population. To such signs as the absence of external and internal constructions, the orientation by the skull on Southeast, the presence of the ochre the archaeological object № 2 (2008) is carried to the early neolith. The analogies are found in the funeral and the settlement complexes of the early neolith and the late bronze age of Baikal region.