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The article provides a brief introduction to the archaeology of the lifestyle of the population of the Karagayly-Ayat river basin (Southern Trans-Urals) in the 2nd millennium BC, based on the results of a long-term research program. The article starts with a theoretical section containing the main provisions of the concept of "lifestyle" in various disciplines, as well as its place in archaeology. The task of the study is determined, it is to highlight the components of the lifestyle of the local population and understand the trajectory, as well as the factors of its change during the 2nd millennium BC. To obtain the most complete picture of changes in lifestyle, materials that had been obtained earlier in the study of fortified settlements were used. The burial grounds and open settlements of the post-Sintashta time are objects of the current research. The following topics are shortly touched: the living environment, some activities of the inhabitants of the settlements, the life support system, people (based on the materials of the Neplyuevka burial ground), including their ritual activities, morphological characteristics, appearance, demographic structure, health status, nutrition. Preliminary results of isotope studies indicate that in the first half of the 2nd millennium BC, both people and animals (herds) did not leave the river valley for long distances, leading, in general, a sedentary lifestyle. © 2019 Institute of History and Archeology of the Ural Branch of RAS. All rights reserved.

We recorded the movements of adult Eastern Hermann’s tortoises ( Testudo hermanni boettgeri ) in a local population situated in a complex forested habitat system. The average total movement range size (TMRS) calculated over three consecutive years was 4.56 ha and 7.53 ha for males and females, respectively. The largest estimated TMRS of male and female tortoises was 27 ha and 90 ha, respectively. Six females and three males (or 9% and 4%, respectively, of the overall sample) had a movement range size (MRS) greater than 10 ha. Significant differences between male and female MRS were not detected. Body size had no influence on the MRS of individuals in the sample, except on the core movement range size (CMRS) in males. Although the collected data did not enable calculation of the home range in the studied population, the results indicate that the calculated average TMRS of local Hermann tortoises is larger than the average home range in some other populations. Therefore, in the absence of information on the home range size of local adult tortoises, the MRS could be a suitable alternative for planning local species reserves. https://doi.org/10.2298/ABS170217013S Received: February 17, 2017; Revised: April 2, 2017; Accepted: April 19, 2017; Published online: April 28, 2017 How to cite this article: Stojadinovic DM, Cubric T, Milosevic ĐD, Jovanovic BLj, Corovic JV, Paunovic M, Crnobrnja-Isailovic JM. Contribution to the knowledge of spatial movements of adult Hermann’s tortoises. Arch Biol Sci. 2017;69(4):671-7.