Gutsalov S.Yu.

Key words: Nagornoye, Prokhorovka culture, burial tradition, catacomb grave, comb, position with the head to the south.
The article publishes certain materials from the Early Iron Age which were discovered in the early 1980th by the Central Kazakhstan expedition, headed by M.K. Kadirbaev, in the upper reaches of the river Ilek in Western Kazakhstan. The article describes secondary burial 1 in burial mound 11 near the village of Nagornoye. The skeleton was placed in a supine position with the head to the south. The finds (bone top of a comb, set of beads, bronze mirror, etc.) and the burial tradition allow identifying the site as a Prokhorovka culture one, and dating it to the 3d – 2nd cc. BC.