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Mythical Creatures, the Making of Wearing Apparel, and the Landscape

Jānis Cepītis Lilija Jakubenoka

https://doi.org/10.15181/ab.v15i1.17

Pub. online: 20 Sep 2011 Type: Article

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Journal: Archaeologia Baltica Volume 15 (2011): Archaeology, Religion and Folklore in the Baltic Sea Region, pp. 35–44

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Stones where mythical creatures carry out work connected with wearing apparel appear in publications on the mythological stones of Lithuania and Belarus. This theme is not so widely considered in Latvian research literature. The aim of this work is to show that in Latvian folklore, by natural (stone, tree, stump, water, cave, etc) and man-made objects of the cultural space (threshing barn, cemetery, hill-fort, etc), mythical creatures tailor, spin, knit and mend for people or for themselves.

The Mythical Flight Paths of Lake Sauka

Jānis Urtāns

https://doi.org/10.15181/ab.v15i1.20

Pub. online: 20 Sep 2011 Type: Article

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Journal: Archaeologia Baltica Volume 15 (2011): Archaeology, Religion and Folklore in the Baltic Sea Region, pp. 31–34

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Lake Sauka is the largest lake in the district of Augšzeme in Latvia. It features very often in tales and legends, which mostly relate the story of its flight and its settling down in its present location. The nearest place from where it might have flown is approximately 30 kilometres away, but the most distant place is about 70 kilometres away. The places of origin, flight routes and conditions of settling down mentioned in numerous tales, when confronted with modern knowledge about the layout of archaeological sites, allow us to see yet unknown connections between the mythical world reflected in tales, and the real world represented by the relief and by archaeological sites.

Hiis-sites in Northern Estonia: Distincitve Hills and Plain Fields

Tõnno Jonuks

https://doi.org/10.15181/ab.v15i1.19

Pub. online: 20 Sep 2011 Type: Article

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Journal: Archaeologia Baltica Volume 15 (2011): Archaeology, Religion and Folklore in the Baltic Sea Region, pp. 22–30

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In this article, I analyse places with toponyms connected with hiis (meaning ‘holy place’, usually associated with ‘holy grove’ in Estonian) in northern Estonia. Geographically, it is possible to distinguish between three main types of landscape for places of which the names include the word hiis: distinctive hills, plain fields, and isolated, hidden places. Research into holy places tends to focus on naturally prominent or spectacular places, which have shaped the view that holy places are usually situated on hills; but plain fields and other visually less attractive sites have been neglected. Here, I will give examples of different types of Estonian hiis-sites, and discuss the links between these places and other monuments, graves and cemeteries dating from different periods, and settlements and churches. Finally, the article points to the favouring of different landscapes selected for hiis-sites, and argues that the claim that only attractive sites are regarded as ‘holy places’ is not valid.

From Fell Tops to Standing Stones: Sacred Landscapes in Northern Finland

Tiina Äikäs

https://doi.org/10.15181/ab.v15i1.15

Pub. online: 20 Sep 2011 Type: Article

Open Access

Journal: Archaeologia Baltica Volume 15 (2011): Archaeology, Religion and Folklore in the Baltic Sea Region, pp. 16–21

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In this article, I present sacred places in northern Finland. The sacred places differ greatly from those in southern Finland. This is due to the different cultural tradition. Sacred sites in the north can broadly be divided into three groups: terrain formation, natural objects and structures. I concentrate on offering places, called sieidi (SaaN), which were used by the ancestors of the modern Sámi. Meat, antlers and metal, and in later times alcohol, were offered in order to gain success at hunting. A prominent feature in sieidi places is their heterogeneity and the long tradition of use attached to them.

Preface

Vykintas Vaitkevičius Daiva Vaitkevičienė

https://doi.org/10.15181/ab.v15i1.47

Pub. online: 20 Sep 2011 Type: Introduction

Open Access

Journal: Archaeologia Baltica Volume 15 (2011): Archaeology, Religion and Folklore in the Baltic Sea Region, pp. 7–13

A Scandinavian Trace: A Beak Fibula from the Late Migration Period Cemetery at Nowinka in Northern Poland

Bartosz Kontny

Pub. online: 20 Dec 2010 Type: Article

Open Access

Journal: Archaeologia Baltica Volume 14 (2010): Underwater Archaeology in the Baltic Region, pp. 241–246

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This paper presents an item that has been mentioned in archaeological literature a few times, but never in a detailed analysis: the beak brooch from grave 38 in the cemetery of the Elbląg group at Nowinka. It is a south Scandinavian import that came to northern Poland around the middle of the sixth century, but was in use for quite a long time, which is suggested by traces of wear, as well as introducing a hinge construction that is untypical of that type.

On the Track of the Ancestors of the Scalvians. The Remains of the Migration Period Cemetery at Tilsit

Wojciech Nowakowski

Pub. online: 20 Dec 2010 Type: Article

Open Access

Journal: Archaeologia Baltica Volume 14 (2010): Underwater Archaeology in the Baltic Region, pp. 234–240

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The Early Medieval Scalva region, situated on the Lower Neman,* was, it seems, already relatively densely populated in the Migration Period. The concentration of Migration Period cemeteries on the eastern outskirts of the later city of Tilsit might indicate this. The Am Philosophengang necropolis was one of these sites. Completely unknown until recently, the cemetery is now being ‘rediscovered’ on the basis of archive records

The Crossbow Animal-Headed Brooches from Grave 165 of the Sambian-Natangian Culture Burial Ground at Bol’shoe Isakovo (Formerly Lauth)

Olga Khomiakova

Pub. online: 20 Dec 2010 Type: Article

Open Access

Journal: Archaeologia Baltica Volume 14 (2010): Underwater Archaeology in the Baltic Region, pp. 228–233

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The article presents the publication and an attempt at the analysis of the brooches from grave 165 of the Bol’shoe Isakovo (formerly Lauth) burial ground. These are special finds which produces pieces of animal-headed crossbow brooches of the Migration Period in Sambian-Natangian culture and the western Baltic region. Brooches from the grave of the Bol’shoe Isakovo burial ground should be one of the earliest examples of the animal style in the southeast Baltic, and an instance of contacts between northern Europe and the Sambian population in the Early Migration Period.

Investigations of the Evolution of the Baltic Sea and Early Human Settlement in the Eastern Baltic Area (Based on Materials from the Kaliningrad Region)

Olga Druzhinina Ivan Skhodnov

Pub. online: 20 Dec 2010 Type: Article

Open Access

Journal: Archaeologia Baltica Volume 14 (2010): Underwater Archaeology in the Baltic Region, pp. 219–225

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This article treats a wide-ranging scientific project ‘The Evolution of the Baltic Sea and the Stages of the Earliest Human Settlement in the Southeast Baltic’ that started in 2009. The main research methods consist of multidisciplinary investigations of key archaeological sites and former glacial water-pools and bogs. The final result of the project is expected to be a model of demographic processes that occurred in the southeast Baltic during the Late Glacial and Early Holocene set against environmental changes.

The Underwater Archaeological Search Project in the Eastern Part of the Gulf of Finland between 2006 and 2009. The Shipwrecks in the Russian Zone of the Nord Stream Project

Petr Sorokin Ayvar Stepanov

Pub. online: 20 Dec 2010 Type: Article

Open Access

Journal: Archaeologia Baltica Volume 14 (2010): Underwater Archaeology in the Baltic Region, pp. 216–218

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