NATURAL AND GEOGRAPHIC ASPECTS OF THE LOCALIZATION OF THE EARLY IRON AGE AND THE MIDDLE AGES MONUMENTS IN WESTERN KAZAKHSTAN"
Natural and geographical dimensions of West Kazakhstan are considered to be one of the determining factors in monument distribution of the late monuments of the Early Iron Age and Middle Ages nomadic and settled population. Nature and characteristics of archaeological site localization, having been analyzed alongside with the data of the written sources, identify a number of specific aspects of late medieval history of a large region of Kazakhstan.