Till today the Bronze and Iron Age Cultures of the area of interest were investigated using only the data of burials. Thousands of the burial mounds - kurgans have been excavated, the materials have been published and explored. The issues of the burial rite, dating back, social organisation, economy system and way of life of the ancient population have been mostly cleared. At the same time the numerous settlements that, due to the small portions and the absence or very thin cultural layers were traditionally considered as seasonal settlements of cattle breeders, remain virtually unexplored. The paper is devoted the first results of the archaeological settlement survey in the North-Western Caspian. The aerial photography, digital maps were used for the searching of the settlements in the steppe, and for finding the conformity to natural laws of the distribution burial mounds groups and living places in different landscape environment.