REMAINS OF SACRIFICIAL ANIMALS IN FUNERAL RITES OF THE NARIM GROUP OF THE PALEOSELCUPS "SHIESHGULA"
In the complex of burial mounds referred to the Narim group of the paleoselkups "shieshgula" were found remains of sacrificial domestic and wild animals. Their meat was used in funeral rites as a sacral food for participants of the ceremony and for the departed. Some characteristics of the ceremony are close to the same in the culture of Indo-iranian and Turkic population in South Siberia and Central Asia, that indicates influence of southern cultures on the taiga population determining changes in its world outlook.