The propduct or the bronze age from the Rodino district museum (Altai Territory)

The exposition of the Rodino District museum (Altai region) has a large metal object that was accidentally discovered near the Kochki village in the central part of the Kulunda steppe. The product has a direct open sleeve and a trapezoidal working part with the blade. The morphological features of its design make the object similar to the celt of the Bronze Age found in the Ob-Irtysh interfluve, however they differ in the presence of the long blade knife and the increased width of the blade. These features bring together the considered subject and the so-called celts-blades. The tomahawk-shape mark on the working part may indicate a connection with the object world of Sargarinsk-Alexeevo or Begazy-Dandybay cultures of the Late Bronze period. The article which aims to introduce rare archaeological finds into scientific circulation, describes the tools, presents the results of X-ray fluorescence analysis of metals and considers analogies allowing attribution of the museum exhibit. The results complement the available information about the material culture of the Bronze Age people in the south of Western Siberia.