Bronze Age stone axe, 2500–1950 BCE, knum003_34

3D Model

A stone axe of Early Bronze Age Catacomb culture (2500 –1950 BCE). Object originates from the rescue field works in Central Ukraine, that were provided during the second half of the 20th century. The find comes from the construction zone of the Stanichno-Luhansk irrigation system in the Stanichno-Luhansk (now Shchastinsky) district of the Luhansk region at a distance of 1.25 km to the north from the village Plotyna, in a paired burial of Catacomb culture №2 mound №8.

Artifact belongs to the Archaeological Museum of Taras Shevchenko exhibition at the National University of Kyiv collection. The model was created as part of the project “Under the Shelling: Digital 3D Protection of the Ukrainian Bronze Age”. This project was supported by the scholarship at the German Archaeological Institute (DAI). The estimated metric accuracy of the model is 1-2 mm.