Bronze Age and Early Iron Age items from the museums in the Labinsk district of the Krasnodar region

The paper examines items dating to the Late Bronze Age - early Iron Age from the museums in the Labinsk district of the Krasnodar region. An axe from the Besleneyevskaya village shows similarity with axes of the Upper Kuban type, variant A, typical for the Kuban metallurgical and metal working center from the Late Bronze Age as well as with battle-axes known in the protomaeotic group of sites dating to the Early Iron Age. An angular sickle from the town of Labinsk is typical for the Kuban metallurgical and metal working center and is dated to its latest chronological groups, i. e. the Udobnaya and the Bekeshevskaya groups. The dating of an ornamented axe with a twice curved blade falls within the 9th or the 9th-8th centuries BC, its origin is linked to a central Caucasus local center of the Koban-Colchis graphic style.