"Upper Rutkha" / "Kumbulta" - funerary monument of the Koban archaeological culture in the Digor gorge of the Central Caucasus. New data on the burial rite
The article examines archaeological materials, burial rite, burial structures of the Verkhnerutkhinsky / Kumbulta necropolis of the Koban archaeological culture, located in the mountainous part of the Irafsky district of the RNO - Alania, provides new data on the elements of the funeral rite of the population that left this monument.