Pages: 333-347 | DOI: https://doi.org/10.55086/sp221333347

The article proposes a cross-cultural analysis of the concept of continuity of burial traditions in the cultures of the protoTurkic and Turkic peoples of northern Eurasia, based on archaeological and folklore sources and ethnographic data of the Kazakh and Yakut ethnicities. Researchers use materials from archaeological studies of known and new sites of the Early Iron Age and Turkic time in Kazakhstan (Berel, Kyrykungir, etc.). The study of the topic requires the use of methodological approaches and developments of cultural and social anthropology, structural and semiotic analysis, deciphering the general appearance of similar cases in the spiritual culture of asynchronical, but mono-ethnic societies for the reconstruction of worldview ideas. When characterizing burial sites, the authors use traditional methods of archaeological description, chronological determination, stratigraphy, typological analysis, etc. New data have been obtained on the connections of elements of the worldview of tribes from the early Iron Age — the Middle Ages, enshrined in the burial rite of the Saka and Turkic population of the Eurasian steppes and materials of modern folklore of Turkic peoples (Kazakhs and Sakha Yakuts).

Keywords: archeology, ethnology, nomadic peoples, burial rite, folklore of the Turkic peoples, worldview, Kazakhstan, Eurasia

Information about authors:

Ulan Umitkaliev (Nur-Sultan, Kazakhstan). Candidate of Historical Sciences. L. N. Gumilyov Eurasian National University. Satpaev St., 2, Nur-Sultan, Z01A3D7, Kazakhstan
E-mail: [email protected]
ORCID: 0000-0001-7828-1381
Lyudmila Lbova (Saint Petersburg, Russian Federation). Doctor of Historical Sciences. Graduate School of International Relations, Humanitarian Institute, Peter the Great St. Petersburg Polytechnic University. Grazhdansky Ave., 28, Saint Petersburg, 195220, Russian Federation
E-mail: [email protected], [email protected]
ORCID: 0000-0003-4103-7785
Kuanysh Iskakov (Nur-Sultan, Kazakhstan). National Museum of the Republic of Kazakhstan. Tauelsizdik Ave., 54, Nur-Sultan, 010000, Kazakhstan
E-mail: [email protected]
ORCID: 0000-0003-2409-8068
Asset Zhanissov (Nur-Sultan, Kazakhstan). Candidate of Historical Sciences. L. N. Gumilyov Eurasian National University. Satpaev St., 2, Nur-Sultan, Z01A3D7, Kazakhstan
E-mail: [email protected]
ORCID: 0000-0002-0910-9411
Perdekhan Mussyrmankul (Nur-Sultan, Kazakhstan). National Museum of the Republic of Kazakhstan. Tauelsizdik Ave., 54, Nur-Sultan, 010000, Kazakhstan
E-mail: [email protected]
ORCID: 0000-0003-4683-4855
Daniyar Tleugabulov (Nur-Sultan, Kazakhstan). L. N. Gumilyov Eurasian National University. Satpaev St., 2, Nur-Sultan, Z01A3D7, Kazakhstan
E-mail: [email protected]
ORCID: 0000-0002-0829-0319