The monograph is devoted to a detailed analysis and analysis of materials from 59 Yakut burials mainly of the 18th century, excavated and studied by the author in 1965 in three regions of Central Yakutia: Alekseevsky (now Tattinsky) - 25, Churapchinsky - 24 and Megino-Kangalassky - 10. The work is preceded by a historiographic essay devoted to the study of Yakut burials by various researchers, from Richard Maak in the Vilyui district in the middle of the 19th century to the beginning of the second half of the 20th century.