Section MISCELLANEOUS PLANTS IN LIFE OF THE POPULATION OF GONUR-DEPE (ANCIENT MARGIANA) Sataeva Liliya Bashkir State Agrarian University, Ufa, Russia This research is devoted to results of the study of plant remains from excavations of a Bronze Age site Gonur-depe (Turkmenistan, Bactrian-Margiana Archaeological Complex or Oxus Civilization). <...> Plants were widely used in both utilitarian and rituial purposes. <...> Several kinds of wheat, barley, millet, legumes, fruit trees, grapes were cultivated. <...> Poplar (Populus sp.) and willow (Salix sp.) were used in the buildings structures (beams in the palace, roofs of the external walls of the Kremlin). <...> Some types of wood were brought from afar, and used for making of the artifacts: maple, elm, sumac or smoke tree (Cotinus corrygria), Vitex sacred (Vнtex agnus-castus) and others. <...> Plants theme is often found in cult things (pottery, seals, amulets, mosaics). <...> Different images of the “world tree” were found. <...> Among the fi nds, there is a unique fi gure of “the goddess of vegetation” with accurately executed ears of wheat. <...> On the seals and amulets fl oral images which can be interpreted as “tulip”, “poppy”, “cannabis” are seenb. <...> Furthermore, large vats and baths for pre-soaking plants, stone graters, pestles, mortars and strainers (conical vessels with holes in the center of the bottom) were found. <...> Key words: archaeobotanical researches, Oxus Civilization, Gonur-depe, Bronze Age Contact information: Sataeva Liliya, e-mail: lvsataeva@mail.ru. <...> PALEOANTHROPOLOGY OF KAZBURUN FUNERAL-SETTLER COMPLEX OF SOUTHERN URALS Shuteleva Iia1 , Shcherbakov Nikolai1 , Leonova Tatiana1 , Gorshkov Konstantin2 1Bashkir State Pedagogical University named after M.Akhmulla, Russia 2Forensic Medical Examination of the Ministry of Health of the Republic of Bashkortostan, Russia The Late Bronze Age in the Southern Transurals (Beta Analytic: 1890–1750 BC) is characterized by uniformity of obsequies of barrow burials and Srubnaya culture settlements. <...> In the basin of Urshak river, having area of 23.4 km2, Kazburun archeological region was identifi ed, which monuments materials were used as a base for a complex of natural science investigation methods. <...> The Kazburun archeological microdistrict belongs to homogeneous in archeological material interfl uve of Urshak river and Dema <...>