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. <...> Plants theme is often found in cult things (pottery, seals, amulets, mosaics). <...> 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. <...> A group of investigated sites included the monuments of Kazburun burial and settlement complex (Kazburun I–III barrow mounds, Muradymovsky settlement, Usmanovsky I, II and III settlements). <...> They carried out paleopedology investigations of the Late Bronze Age settlements, belonging to one cultural tradition – Usmanovsky II settlement (Usmanovo–2, settlement), Usmanovsky III settlement (Usmanovo–3, settlement), located at the Urshak river bank, Muradymovsky settlement – at the bank of a small brook. <...> As may be supposed, people of this culture came to the Urals from the south, from dry steppes, almost semi-deserts and brought traditions of house building of gypsum (Sherbakov, Shuteleva, Obydennova, Balonova, Khohlova, Golyeva, 2010). <...> In the biggest settlement various anthropologic material was found. <...> In addition, the buried human had traces of paleo-disease that <...>