Таshtyk cremation: problems of interpretation (on materials of research of burial ground Starooznachenskaya Pereprava I)

For tastyk cultures are characteristic various kinds of funeral ceremonialism. In crypts and earth tombs meet inhumation (including secondary burial places) and cremation. In 1996 in an earth tomb 29 on burial ground Starooznachenskaj Pereprava I in area Shushenskoe of Krasnoyarsk region the fixed burial in which remains of cremation have been located with observance of the anatomic order. Burning has been accomplished on the party. In a tomb from a funeral fire already cooled down remains have been transferred. Bones have been stacked on a contour of a figure of the person executed full-scale. Among them metal details of a belt, a bronze suspension bracket and a small vessel on the pallet are found out. Similar burial meets in tastyk funeral monuments for the first time. Close archeological parallels are traced in materials of excavation of burial ground Werchneobskaya culture Оzerki I. Accommodation of the burnt remains in burial according to the anatomic order typologically can be comparable to ritual folding burnt bones in an old Indian funeral ceremony аstсhisanchajna.