SOME CONTROVERSIAL RESEARH QUESTIONS ABOUT THE TURBASLY CULTURE
The subject of this work is the analysis of several burials that play a critical role in chronological studies of the artefacts discovered in the Southern Cis-Urals region and dated to the Great Migration period and the early Middle Ages. The current article consists of two parts. The first part of the article discusses a number of artefacts from barrow 18, burial 1 of Dezhnevsky necropolis, namely a buckle with cloisonné decoration on the front plate, a bone arrowhead and two ceramic flat bottom vessels of small and medium sizes. In the second part of the article attention focuses on studies of archaeological assemblages from the necropolises of Novo-Turbasly and Kushnarenkovo, “Chaika-1”necropolis, Novikovka burial and the female grave located on the territory of the courtyard of the Bashkir State Medical University. All of the aforementioned assemblages include numerous valuable objects, such as belt fittings of the so-called ‘heraldic' type. This makes them different from most sets of artefacts discovered in the Southern Cis-Urals. Results of the archaeological analysis of the belt fittings suggest that some representatives of the Turbasly culture could have came to the territory of the Cis-Urals region as early as the turn of the 4th th - 5th centuries AD. Therefore, the richest assemblages of the Turbasy culture must be dated to the end of the 6th century - the beginning of the 7th century AD. It could be concluded that the Turbasly Culture “as it is” began to fade at this period and disappeared at the end of the 7th, at the turn of the 7th - 8th centuries AD.