This article discusses the history of the study of the material culture of the Karakalpak people. Kara, Balykchi, Beshkum, Kazanketgan, Qum-uzak in the Ustyurt plain are among the largest settlements with real and mobile housing in the middle of the XVIII-XIX centuries. In the XVIII and XIX centuries, on the southern shores of the Aral Sea, in the Tollik and Beshkum and again in the Shamishkol Uzun-Kair-Tilla oases, the Karakalpaks lived a semi-sedentary lifestyle and engaged in cattle-breeding, hunting, and fishing with the Kazakhs. engaged in obtaining dyes from plants. The central cities of Karakalpakstan where trade was developed were: Chimbay, Kungrad, Khojaly.
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