Trapezoidal adze-axes from the end of the bronze age from the territory of the North Caucasus
https://doi.org/10.18384/2949-5164-2026-2-152-164
Abstract
Aim. Review, classification, and mapping of finds from the North Caucasus of bronze trapezoidal adze-axes from the end of the Bronze Age. Methodology. A catalog of North Caucasian bronze trapezoidal adze-axes from the end of the Bronze Age to the beginning of the Early Iron Age has been created, and their morphological characteristics, classification features, mapping are presented.
Results. Data on North Caucasian bronze adze-axes, which date from the end of the Bronze Age to the beginning of the Early Iron Age, are taken from publications, archival data and in museums. The chronological and cultural characteristics, the geography of the distribution of these objects are given in relation to the stages of development of the Kuban center of metal production, the Koban cultural community, as well as in general to the stages of development of the Late Bronze Age cultures of southern Eastern Europe.
Research implications. Bronze trapezoidal adze-axes are a characteristic household item for the North Caucasian cultures of the Late Bronze Age. The selected group of adzes is a marker of the period of the final Bronze Age (XII-X centuries BC): it appears as early as the Late Sabatinovskaya period and ends in the materials of the later pre-Scythian period. The data summarized in the work, the presented classifications and cartographic materials will be useful in the further study of North Caucasian cultural genesis.
About the Author
A. L. Pelikh
Armavir State Pedagogical University
Russian Federation
Russian Federation
Aleksey L. Pelikh – Dr Sci (History), Prof , Department of National and General History
Armavir
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