Roman Mimohod

Terminal Middle Bronze Age in the Northweshern Caspian Sea region is represented by funeral monuments of the Lola culture. This culture is included in the block of postcatacomb cultural formations which on the relative chronological scale is placed between catacomb cultures and cultural formations of the initial period of the Late Bronze Age. The Lola culture was formed on the basis of East Manych catacomb culture under a significant influence of Middle Bronze cultures of the Northeastern Caucasus. The Lola culture had three stages. Its evolution involved the disappearance of most residual catacomb traits and the appearance of new cultural standards at an early stage, their development and maintenance at the developed stage and degradation in Late Lola time. In calibrated radiocarbon dates, the time of existence of the Lolino culture is determined within 23d–18th cc. B.C.