Humanities & Social Sciences 4 (2015 8) 670-676 ~ ~ ~ УДК 902/904 Graphic Materials of Tashtyk Culture in Tepsey Archaeological Complex Olga O. Shishkina* Kemerovo State University 6 Kemerovo, Krasnaya Str., 650043, Russian Received 18.10.2014, received in revised form 31.01.2015, accepted 14.02.2015 Tepsey archaeological complex provides different information about the people who lived in Minusinsk Basin. <...> Tashtyk culture is presented by the unique excavation materials (ceramics, animal bones, bronze and iron rings, buckles, knives, remnants of wooden and birch-bark utensils, horse-heads, mortuary masks etc.). <...> Plaques and images on the hearse give us information about artistic materials of the Tashtyk epoch in Tepsey. <...> Specifi c artistic materials are astragals of roe-deer with drilled holes carved with signs-images. <...> Petroglyphs of this period were depicted on Tepsey mountain and Tagar mounds (kurgans). <...> The petroglyphic images of the Tashtyk epoch in Tepsey are varied (elks, deer, oxen, anthropomorphic images etc.). <...> Analysis of these images discovers the new sides of world outlook of their creators and gives the whole picture about this culture. <...> The work was made on assignment № 2014/64 to perform public works in the fi eld of scientifi c activity. <...> Tepsey archaeological (Krasnoyarsk Kray) is a unique object complex for archeologists. <...> Numerous archaeological and artistic materials (ceramics, hardware, wooden things, images on plaques and astragals, rock art and petroglyphs on kurgan stones etc.) are concentrated in this place. <...> Excavations at settlements and particularly burial grounds undertaken by the 1960s – 1970s Krasnoyarsk expedition headed by M. (Leningrad Division of P. Griaznov the Institute of Archaeology of the USSR Academy of Science) revealed the materials of particular importance because of their originality and research © Siberian Federal University. <...> This complex allows retracing the history of Minusinsk Basin development from Afanasyevo to ethnographical time (Griaznov, 1979: 4). <...> Archaeological materials from this culture were mostly discovered during excavations at Tepsey III, IV, XIX, XX sites. <...> Burial traditions of earlier epochs are Olga O. Shishkina. <...> Graphic Materials of Tashtyk Culture in Tepsey Archaeological Complex known to have been rather unifi ed. Since middle Tagar epoch <...>