In the Bronze Age, Altai populations transitioned from hunter-gathering to productive economy, from the hunting, plants-gathering and fishing to livestock-breeding and agriculture.

The early Altaians in the summer grazed herds of cows, horses, and flocks of sheep and goats on alpine meadows, in the winter they were coming back to the river valleys; they also cultivated fields and grew millet, barley, rye, and other cereal plants.

According to researchers, depicted animals and fantastic creatures on the inner side of the slabs "carried" the deceased to the afterlife.

Results of correlation between traditional anthropological group-differentiating complex of craniometrical and odontological traits with the markers of mitochondrial DNA were presented in the Professorial dissertation of T.A.

The features of the cranium were "intermediate Caucasoid-Mongoloid", similar to other individuals excavated in Ozernoye and Karakol in Central Altai.