Animal style images typical of the Chirikrabat culture

In 1961, an archaeological and ethnographic expedition was carried out under the leadership of S.P. Tolstov on the settlement of Bulandy 1. As a result, a stone figurine made in animal style was found. Later, the archaeological excavations carried out in 2012 and 2017 by the expedition of the Institute of Archeology Margulan was found an image of a cat predator in burial mounds number 2, a bone spoon - in mound number 1. The analyzed objects find a wide range of analogies among the materials of Kazakhstan and neighboring countries№