Volkova E.V.

Key words: Bronze Age, Central East Europe, Fatyanovo culture, Volosovo-Danilovsky cemetery, social structure, social stratification, funeral rite, pottery.
The article reconstructs the social structure of Fatyanovo society based on the material from Volosovo-Danilovsky cemetery, a major burial site in Yaroslavl Oblast. The author uses all the available informationon the cemetery, including its planigraphy, the funeral rite, the age-and-gender structure. Especial attention is given to pottery analysis. The author studies the family structure and the social hierarchy of Fatyanovo society.