摘要:The following lines treat some of our observations regarding axes from the period of the Early and Middle Bronze Age, and their fragments, focusing especially on blades and butts. Our aim is to propose several arguments and reflections that could perhaps clarify to what end these axes and their parts were produced and used. As our investigations showed, it is feasible that certain axe parts, depending on their state of preservation, could have had a specific purpose. All of the investigated finds stem from the fortified settlement of Monkodonja, which is located close to the Adriatic coast of the Istrian Peninsula, not far away from Rovinj. The fact that all the axes discussed in this paper were discovered on a single site -i.e., in a closed settlement and cultural complex, certainly facilitates their functional determination.