TO THE QUESTION OF THE PALEO CULTURE OF THE TURKS

The article is devoted to the study and description of the natural environment and material culture of the pra-Turkic peoples. The article also examines the different views of famous russian turkologists on the paleoculture of the ancient Turks. An analysis of the meteorological, landscape, floristic and faunistic vocabulary of the Turkic languages allowed russian turkologists to localize the ancestral home of the ancient Turks in the territory from the dry steppes of East Turkestan to the foothills of Altai and mountain forests. The considered scientific articles give representations of Turks about the sky, celestial bodies and phenomena, about climate, landscape terminology, floristic vocabulary, types of settlements and the material life of the early Turks; their dwellings are described. The penetration into the reconstruction of the Turkic pralexicon promotes the further study of the paleoculture, ancestral home and external relations of the Turks on the basis of historical and linguistic data, which does not lose its relevance in the 21st century, contributing to the ethnocultural interaction of Eurasia.

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