The Orientation of Bodies Buried in Mounds of the Tomsk Ob Region in the High Middle Ages

The article analyzes 278 skeletons or graves from the Astrakhantsevsky burial mound (ABM), Basandaysky (BBM), and at mouth of Malaya Kirgiska River (MKBM) where were broken. These sites can be attributed to Basandaika Culture. They are located in Tomsky Shegarsky districts Tomsk Region. In all these mounds seven orientations identified: NE-SW, NNE-SSW, NW-SE, NNWSSE, NS, WE, WNW-ESE. indicating orientation marked on layouts mounds. demonstrate separate groups (ABM, MKBM) several differently oriented a single BBM, MKBM), which could belong different ethnic ethnographic same group