title: THE LATE BRONZE AGE KURCHANSKAYA HOARD: INTERDISCIPLINARY STUDIES
abstract: The paper presents the results of an interdisciplinary study of a hoard of Late Bronze Age tools found in Kurchanskaya Stanitsa (the Taman Peninsula).The hoard includes 11 tools: seven sickles, a Celtic axe, a knife, a fragment of an adze, a fragment of a socketed chisel.The complex containing intact and damaged tools is attributed as a treasure trove of a foundry master.The alloy of sickles, adze and knife is low-arsenic bronze, which can be correlated with the Kuban metallurgy province.The orn
journal: Journal of historical philological and cultural studies