FEDOROVO BURIAL GROUNDS OF THE TALDINSKY BURIAL SITE-1
The article discusses the results of studies of 3 mounds of the Taldinsky-1 burial ground (the Shetsky district of the Karaganda region). These mounds were of increased social status and contained 6 graves in stone boxes. The resulting material represented by pot-like smoothly profiled vessels and a bell earring, along with the funeral rituals are characteristic of the Fedorovo culture sites. A stone-earthen mound of one of the mounds should be considered an extraordinary phenomenon. The material obtained casts doubts on the fact of incomplete burning at a number of burial complexes of Central Kazakhstan. Radiocarbon determinations made with the use of accelerator mass spectrometry allowed dating the Fedorovo sites of the region in the framework of the 17<sup>th</sup> - the first half of the 15<sup>th</sup> centuries BC, with the possible aging of the lower border until the second half of the 18<sup>th</sup> century.