VALUES AND PRACTICES OF THE SLAVIC-TURKIC UNITY OF THE PEOPLES OF RUSSIA AND THE COUNTRIES OF CENTRAL ASIA

Hundreds of archeological monuments are concentrated on the territory of the Great Altai, connectedwith all stages of the history of the Turkic community (the second half of the 5th — 11th centuries AD).They are represented by funerary and memorial objects, rock carvings, stone statues, objects of materialand spiritual culture, and samples of writing. The available materials testify to the significant prospects forfurther comprehensive study of the archaeological sites of the Turkic period in Altai. The implementation ofa program of interdisciplinary research, including a series of humanitarian and natural-science analyzes ofanthropological and osteological materials from archaeological complexes, seems to be relevant.