AB Archaeologia Baltica 1392-5520 1392-5520 KU 14_234-240_NOWAKOWSKI Article On the Track of the Ancestors of the Scalvians. The Remains of the Migration Period Cemetery at Tilsit Nowakowski Wojciech samland@wp.pl ∗ University of Warsaw Corresponding author. 14 234 240 20 12 2010 20 12 2010 03 10 2010 12 12 2010 20 12 2010 2010 Klaipėda University

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

 archaeology Scalva Scalvians Migration Period Lower Neman