On the Track of the Ancestors of the Scalvians. The Remains of the Migration Period Cemetery at Tilsit
Volume 14 (2010): Underwater Archaeology in the Baltic Region, pp. 234–240
Pub. online: 20 December 2010
Type: Article
Open Access
Open Access
Received
3 October 2010
3 October 2010
Revised
12 December 2010
12 December 2010
Accepted
20 December 2010
20 December 2010
Published
20 December 2010
20 December 2010
Abstract
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