Аннотация:Analysis of stable carbon and nitrogen isotopes permits a dietary reconstruction of humans and animals in the past. A large burial mound (kurgan) of ìburial mound group 3î was excavated near the town of Ipatovo, Stavropol region, Russia, in 1998/99. Of the 195 graves recorded in Kurgan 2, 34 date to the Bronze Age, i.e., to the time period from the late 4th to the end of the 2nd millennium BCE. A Bachelor thesis at the University of Basel investigated the diet of all 36 Bronze Age individuals using stable isotope analysis.The results show a trend towards a mixed diet of C3 and C4 plants for the early and the late Bronze Age. C4 plants could have been consumed directly, or indirectly as a result of the consumption of the meat or products of animals that fed on C4 plants. This influence cannot be observed for the middle Bronze Age. The nitrogen isotope ratios suggest that products of terrestrial animals were a major component of human diets, although the additional consumption of freshwater fish is also possible. Overall, we found no conspicuousdifferences either between the sexes or between burials with or without exceptional grave goods.