He.V. Volkova

The article is devoted to elaborating an overall systematics for the stone axes and other woodworking tools from the excavations at four Novinki cemeteries of the Bronze Age Fat’yanovo culture. The article lists the typical sizes and proportions of the different types of tools and suggests the criteria for reconstructing their most probable function. The author uses the relative chronology of the Novinki cemeteries as established in the course of pottery studies to outline some of the trends of the tools’ evolution in time. The herein presented systematics has been successfully applied to materials from a series of other Fat’yanovo cemeteries.