The results of investigation of the XVII Izmeri burial ground
The results of 3-years study the XVII Izmersi burial ground are represented in the article. The burial ground is located on the left bank of the Kama mouth and referred to the Ananiyno cultural and historic area. This burial ground is situated directly near the VII and the XVI Izmeri cemeteries, which are also referred to the Ananiyno cultural and historic area. This fact allows the authors to unite all of them to the one funeral complex of the Final Bronze Age - the beginning of the Early Iron Age. Except four interments of the Ananiyno time, several earlier artefacts of the Mesolithic and Later Bronze Age were revealed on the territory of the burial ground. Further there was the settlement of the Imenkovo culture with the dwelling remnants of square form deepened in the ground with one pile pit in the centre of it. Construction of the building is referred by authors to the time not later than middle of the Imillennium AD. The main amount of ceramics from the upper part of the infill connected to the functioning cessation and refers to the later time - 6th - 7th centuries AD.