Archaeological research on Cis-Baikal Early Neolithic mortuary practices has traditionally focused on the Kitoi mortuary tradition with its rich materials known from several large cemeteries of the Angara Valley and Southwest Baikal. Assemblages that do not fit that description have attracted much less attention. Currently, in Cis-Baikal, the Little Sea microregion has the highest number of such graves. The mortuary variation displayed by this material (31 burials from 26 graves at 8 localities) allows their provisional classification into two mortuary groups: the Khotoruk Group, which shows a few similarities with the Kitoi pattern, and the Kurma Group, which does not. Both groups also share a few characteristics, primarily their “Mesolithic” character of many grave inclusions. Not a single grave of the Khotoruk Group displays a complete package of classic Kitoi mortuary pattern, giving an overall impression of being its much impoverished and limited version. It seems that while on the Angara and Southwest Baikal the Kitoi cultural pattern was going through a period of rather dynamic cultural developments, the Little Sea microregion was not much affected by these processes. The evidence suggests a fusion of a few typical Kitoi mortuary characteristics with those of local origin. Based on the set of 15 radiocarbon dates, both groups coexisted roughly at the same time and together date from 8154±153 to 7277±103 modelled cal. BP. As such, the origin of the Khotoruk and Kurma Groups appears to predate the formation of the Kitoi cultural pattern by a few centuries and their end seems to be also earlier than that of the Kitoi.

对Cis-Baikal新石器时代早期practices葬活动的考古研究传统上集中于Kitoi mort葬传统，其丰富的材料从安加拉河谷和西南贝加尔湖的几座大型墓地中获知。不符合该描述的组件所引起的关注要少得多。目前，在顺贝加尔省，小海小区域的此类坟墓数量最多。该材料显示的房变化（来自8个地方的26个坟墓中的31个墓葬）使它们的临时分类可以分为两个mort房组：Khotoruk组（与Kitoi模式有一些相似之处）和Kurma组（与之没有相似之处）。两组还具有一些特征，主要是许多严重包裹体的“中石器时代”特征。Khotoruk集团的一个坟墓中没有一个完整地展示了Kitoi太平间经典package葬品的完整包装，给人的总体印象是它的贫困和限量版。似乎在安加拉和贝加尔湖西南地区，基托伊文化模式正在经历相当活跃的文化发展时期，而小海小地区受这些过程的影响并不大。证据表明，一些典型的Kitoi房特征与本地血统的融合。基于这15个放射性碳日期，两组大致同时共存，并且在一起的日期从8154±153到7277±103模拟校准日期。BP。因此，霍托鲁克族和库尔马族的起源似乎比基图伊文化模式的形成早了几个世纪，而它们的终结似乎也早于基图伊。