This article tells about the results of earliest metal artifacts analysis from the Sayan-Altai region - Minusin kettle, Altai Mountains and Tyva. It summarizes previous publications and introduces new data, obtained by the author, using x-ray fluorescent analysis (ArtTAX) in the department of scientific and technical expertise of the State Hermitage Museum. The research showed that artifacts found on early metal age sites of afanasievo period are made of native metals (copper, silver, gold, lead) or meteorite iron, some of them are made of metals smelted from ore. Bronze artifacts occur later, singular findings in intermediate afanasievo-okunevo and early okunevo (Ujbat) type sites. But in the materials of classic okunevo-type sites, also known as Chernovsky-type sites, copper and tin bronze artifacts are spread in equal measure. It is important, that the content of tin in the alloy is quite high, what means that it was not in deficit in that time.

Lead rings (ear rings) are also found on the early bronze age sites of the late III - early II millennium BC.