LIFE STYLE OF THE SINTASHTINSKO-PETROVSKY POPULATION OF THE SOUTHERN URALS: "TEXTILE" TECHNOLOGY OF VESSELS PRODUCTION
The article briefly examines the stages of the archeology of the Southern Urals and the accumulation of archaeological data on the group of monuments of the Bronze Age, known to modern science as the "Country of Cities." More details are given of works on one of the settlement monuments of this group - the fortified settlement Kamenny Ambar and the latest data on the architectural reconstruction of the monument. Attention is paid to the special technological tradition revealed on the monument during the analysis of the ceramic complex, emphasizes the possibility of reconstructing ancient weaving in the Sintashta-Petrovsky population of the monument on the basis of this indirect source.