Special type of metal products of pit-grave culture (on the results of work in the Samara valley)

Bronze Age archaeological sites in the Samara valley are studied for nearly half of century. Archaeologists had found several places of their compact concentration; the burial micro-area in Utevka is the most prominent. As a result of investigation of kurgan burial complex Leshevskiy I, archaeologists discovered the graves belonging to the late stage of Pit-grave culture. The metal knife which was found in the grave № 2 of the kurgan № 2 has wide round of analogies from Eastern Ural to steppe Black sea region. Unusual shape of the blades allows us to assume that the knives had many-functional purpose: they could be used as battle weapons and as adzes.