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Preface

Audronė Bliujienė

Pub. online: 27 Dec 2022 Type: Introduction

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Journal: Archaeologia Baltica Volume 29 (2022), pp. 4–5

Contents

Pub. online: 27 Dec 2022 Type: List Of Contributors

Open Access

Journal: Archaeologia Baltica Volume 29 (2022), p. 3

Some Notes on the Contacts Between Gotland and the East Baltic Area

Lena Thunmark-Nylen

Pub. online: 4 Aug 2022 Type: Article

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Journal: Archaeologia Baltica Volume 4 (2000), pp. 173–180

Ancient Landscapes in Aerial Photography: The Lithuanian Example of Noise Levels

Gintautas Zabiela

Pub. online: 4 Aug 2022 Type: Article

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Journal: Archaeologia Baltica Volume 9 (2008), pp. 47–52

Abstract

Factors which suppress or interfere with the deciphering of aerial photography whilst searching for traces of ancient habitations are called noises. The main kinds of noises currently identified in Lithuania are land improvement or land reclamation, woods, urbanisation and reservoirs. Altogether, they make a fair level of noise, thus the search for traces of habitations based solely on aerial photography in Lithuania is not possible.

Introduction

Pub. online: 4 Aug 2022 Type: Introduction

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Journal: Archaeologia Baltica Volume 6 (2006), p. 6

Looking for lost pieces of a puzzle: the Dollkeim-Kovrovo culture cemetery at Perdollen

Agata Chilińska-Früboes

https://doi.org/10.15181/ab.v28i0.2288

Pub. online: 29 Dec 2021 Type: Article

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Journal: Archaeologia Baltica Volume 28 (2021), pp. 175–216

Abstract

The article is devoted to the archaeological discoveries in the former village of Perdollen. A flat

cemetery of Dollkeim-Kovrovo culture was discovered in this locality, dating back to the Roman

period, and probably also to the Early Migration period. Moreover, there was a cemetery from

modern times with inhumation graves. The Dollkeim-Kovrovo culture cemetery was badly damaged

by agricultural work, and the extraction of gravel and sand. Most of the artefacts discovered

there come from excavations carried out by Carl Engel in the 1930s. Apart from one fibula, probably

a Roman import, all the items are lost. The sources of knowledge about the state of research

are almost exclusively archival materials and some daily newspapers.

The Early Medieval graves of Groß Ottenhagen (Berezovka). On the way from Sambia to the middle reaches of the Niemen

Roman Shiroukhov Konstantin Skvortsov Timo Ibsen

https://doi.org/10.15181/ab.v28i0.2287

Pub. online: 29 Dec 2021 Type: Article

Open Access

Journal: Archaeologia Baltica Volume 28 (2021), pp. 150–174

Abstract

The field research at Groß ottenhagen (Berezovka) conducted in 2003 and 2004 was the first

international scientific collaboration between German and russian archaeologists in kaliningrad

region since 1945. The Groß ottenhagen cemetery demonstrates almost continuous functioning

for about 1,000 years, from the roman iron Age up to the middle Ages. The part of the site considered

in the article belongs to the last stage of the development of sambian-natangian culture

among the old Prussians in the 11th to the 13th centuries Ad. despite a first analysis by the

excavators in 2005, this data from the cemetery has never been fully published. Groß ottenhagen

graves from the discussed period are represented by so-called double layer burial features, with

human cremations on top of horse burials. The burial rites and grave goods at the cemetery are

discussed in the context of archaeological material from the sambian peninsula and southwest

and central lithuania. The relative chronology of Groß ottenhagen is based on an analysis of

grave goods, as well as the stratigraphy and the spatial distribution of the graves. According to

the absence of imported/status goods at Groß ottenhagen, the cemetery probably belonged to a

peripheral group of the late sambian-natangian region culture of the Prussians.

The lower reaches of the Daugava in the Bronze and the Earliest Iron Age (1800-500 to the 1st century BC)

Andrejs Vasks

https://doi.org/10.15181/ab.v28i0.2286

Pub. online: 29 Dec 2021 Type: Article

Open Access

Journal: Archaeologia Baltica Volume 28 (2021), pp. 132–148

Abstract

The lower reaches of the Daugava in the Mesolithic and Neolithic were sparsely populated until

the second half of the Early Bronze Age (1800–1100 BC). The situation began to change from

the 14th century BC, when the process of Neolithisation was over, and the local communities

switched completely to animal husbandry and agriculture. In terms of social and economic relations,

the area reached its highest level of development in the Late Bronze Age (1100–500 BC),

which continued, albeit with a downward trend, in the Earliest Iron Age (500–1 BC). The article

discusses the conditions that promoted the economic prosperity and social development of societies

in the lower reaches of the Daugava in the direction of differentiation. The most important

condition for this development was the involvement of lower Daugava societies in the long-distance

exchange network between Scandinavia and the Volga-Kama region, where the main object

of exchange was bronze, and the related focus on the processing of it in downstream centres.

These metal products, weapons and jewellery, and their limited availability, were elements in the

demonstration of social prestige. With the spread of local iron metallurgy in Eastern Europe and

Scandinavia, the long-distance exchange of bronze lost its former importance. Consequently, the

main bronze processing centres in the lower reaches of the Daugava also declined, and a collapse

occurred in the existing socio-economic system.

An attempt to link a lithic complex with the Late Palaeolithic Rangifer tarandus antler axe from the Parupė site in northern Lithuania

Tomas Rimkus Algirdas Girininkas

https://doi.org/10.15181/ab.v28i0.2285

Pub. online: 29 Dec 2021 Type: Article

Open Access

Journal: Archaeologia Baltica Volume 28 (2021), pp. 118–131

Abstract

The recent intensification of AMS 14C assays of bone and antler artefacts in the east and southeast

Baltic region has revealed a number of reindeer (Rangifer tarandus) antler axes, and their prevalence

in the Late Palaeolithic osseous toolkit. One of the oldest, dating from 11 221–11 048 cal

BC, was discovered in 2014 in the village of Parupė, on the left bank of the River Nemunėlis, in

northern Lithuania. Until now, no such organic implements discovered in the region in question

have been associated with any Late Palaeolithic taxonomic group, but at the location of the antler

axe at Parupė between 2015 and 2019, three concentrations of numerous lithic findings have been

identified, whose typological and technological features allow for the consideration of their possible

association with the dated axe. In this paper, we present three concentrations of lithic finds

(sites 1–3) at Parupė village, providing their technological and typological data, and their possible

chronology and taxonomy, reflecting the Late Palaeolithic and Early and Late Mesolithic. We

conclude that the moderate lithic complex from site 1 should be associated with Late Palaeolithic

technology, and can possibly be linked with the antler axe.

The Final Palaeolithic in the coastal part of Lithuania with the technological emphasis on Aukštumala Stone Age sites

Tomas Rimkus Algirdas Girininkas

https://doi.org/10.15181/ab.v28i0.2284

Pub. online: 29 Dec 2021 Type: Article

Open Access

Journal: Archaeologia Baltica Volume 28 (2021), pp. 102–117

Abstract

The Final Palaeolithic in the Lithuanian coastal zone has so far been represented only by a few

archaeological finds from individual contexts, and a small number of archaeological excavations.

However, their analysis has not revealed much regarding the technological development of hunting

implements and work tools, or the choice and the use of necessary raw materials, and little

data has been provided on the chronological aspects, or the connection between settlement locations

and the changing level of the Baltic Sea. This paper presents the latest archaeological

material from the Final Palaeolithic in the Lithuanian coastal area, based on the three sites at

Aukštumala upland bog, and stray finds found in the area. The article focuses on technological

and typological aspects of lithics related to Swiderian culture. The results of the study show that,

with the shortage of flint raw material, Final Palaeolithic societies at Aukštumala relied on smaller

and narrower blades, and compensated for the lack of flint raw material by using other, locally

available metamorphic rocks.

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