Burial Rite of the Shchukinsky Burial Ground of the Lomovatovo Archaeological Culture

The Shchukino burial ground is located 300 m west of the village Shchukino, Afanasyevsky district, Kirov region, on a small cape 14 high right bank river. Kama. site was discovered and studied by V.A. Kananin in 1977. A total 82 burials were studied. interest due to variety types rites. At site, made according rite cremation inhumation. There are grave pits without structural features there with niches, shoulders ledges. Shoulders ledges recorded 9th century. In some them, fragments wooden flooring have been preserved; probably, buried person laid floor covered earth from above. Based analysis goods, author article singled out 5 chronological groups. presence monument two 6th century refuted. Early materials represented only belt buckles. dating should be narrowed down time its functioning 7th –9th centuries indicated. Late survived greatest number (the destroyed natural factors). an assumption that different cultural traditions existed region at same based clarification allocation similar Averiny II, Agafonova I II. differs ways design pits, method burial, filling layer etc.) synchronous grounds Upper Kama – Pleso, Demenkovsky, Kaneva, Urya.