The article describes the experience of allocation of "social markers" peculiar to funeral rite of the Turk culture's population. The variation of nomad's funeral constructions and ritual was not determined by the reasons of social plan. The main criteria for study on person's state during his life were the quantity and the quality of the artifact's complex which was near the dead. The analysis of the artifacts from the burials of the Turk culture allow us to define the social significance of things and to pick up the complexes of "power" and "riches" which demonstrate the person's state in the society.

Key words: Turk culture, Sayan-Altai region, funeral rite, social history, early Middle Ages, written sources.