Pages: 370-385

In the article one of the bright cultural elements of the steppe tribes of Eastern Europe is observed. It is antropomorphic stone sculptures. Tools, labour input, sex and age of the buried are being observed. There is an attempt the reconstruct the semantics of stone antropomorphic sculpture, its place in the burial ritual, social life and status of the buried. The authors supposes that the people who were buried with stone sculptures had to do with magic and worship.