The Investigation of Ancient Sanctuaries of the Aral and Caspian Steppes: some Results and Perspectives

Abstract

In the frame of an European INTAS (International Association for the Promotion of Cooperation with Scientists from the New Independent States of the Former Soviet Union) Project RFBR 95-336 sponsored by the Institute of Archaeology of Academy of Sciences of Russia with the title Research of the ancient Sanctuaries of the Aral-Caspian region: Reconstruction of the ethno-cultural and sociopolitical History of the Steppe Nomads, 1st millennium BC, the author together with his partners is dealing with special burial finds of the Schythian period and in particular with burial stone with human figurative representation of Scythian period