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95,4% - 996-987 cal BC; 980-825 cal BC). The radiocarbon datę
allows to State the chronology of the axe’s use at maximally years
996 - 825 BC. In the relative chronology of the northern part of
Central Europę it means the second half of the 4lh and the First
half of the 5th period of the Bronze Age.

Also, metallurgical research allowed to recognise the materiał
of which the axe was madę. It was copper with an admixture of
Silicon, in other words, a uniąue alloy with no known analogies.

Ali in all, the axe found at Azyershchina was probably madę
on the spot on the upper Dnieper, as evidenced by its morpho-
logical exclusivity and a not very high leveł of casting technology.
Furthermore, the specificity of the materiał may attest to local
metallurgical experiments. Its maker existed within the produc-
tion environment connected most probably with the Baltic zonę,
though Southern influences (the middle Dnieper basin and the
territories along the Dniester) cannot be excluded.