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      <journal-id journal-id-type="publisher-id">AB</journal-id>
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        <journal-title>Archaeologia Baltica</journal-title>
      </journal-title-group>
      <issn pub-type="epub">1392-5520</issn>
      <issn pub-type="ppub">1392-5520</issn>
      <publisher>
        <publisher-name>KU</publisher-name>
      </publisher>
    </journal-meta>
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      <article-id pub-id-type="publisher-id">11_283-294_BRUZIS_SPIRGIS</article-id>
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          <subject>Article</subject>
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        <article-title>The Ogresgala Čabas Cemetery and Horse Sacrifice</article-title>
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      <contrib-group>
        <contrib contrib-type="author">
          <name>
            <surname>Brūzis</surname>
            <given-names>Rūdolfs</given-names>
          </name>
          <email xlink:href="mailto:semigall@hotmail.com">semigall@hotmail.com</email>
          <xref ref-type="aff" rid="j_AB_aff_000"/>
          <xref ref-type="corresp" rid="cor1">∗</xref>
        </contrib>
        <aff id="j_AB_aff_000">Latvijas vēstures institūts</aff>
        <contrib contrib-type="author">
          <name>
            <surname>Spirģis</surname>
            <given-names>Roberts</given-names>
          </name>
          <email xlink:href="mailto:spirgis@inbox.lv">spirgis@inbox.lv</email>
          <xref ref-type="aff" rid="j_AB_aff_001"/>
        </contrib>
        <aff id="j_AB_aff_001">Latvijas vēstures institūts</aff>
      </contrib-group>
      <author-notes>
        <corresp id="cor1"><label>∗</label>Corresponding author.</corresp>
      </author-notes>
      <volume>11</volume>
      <fpage>283</fpage>
      <lpage>294</lpage>
      <pub-date pub-type="ppub">
        <day>30</day>
        <month>08</month>
        <year>2009</year>
      </pub-date>
      <pub-date pub-type="epub">
        <day>30</day>
        <month>08</month>
        <year>2009</year>
      </pub-date>
      <history>
        <date date-type="received">
          <day>28</day>
          <month>01</month>
          <year/>
        </date>
        <date date-type="rev-recd">
          <day>22</day>
          <month>02</month>
          <year>2009</year>
        </date>
        <date date-type="accepted">
          <day>12</day>
          <month>06</month>
          <year>2009</year>
        </date>
      </history>
      <permissions>
        <copyright-year>2009</copyright-year>
        <copyright-holder>Klaipėda University</copyright-holder>
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      <abstract>
        <p>Briefly presented in this paper are the results of the 2007 and 2008 excavations at the complex of ancient sites at Ogresgala Čabas. Particularly significant discoveries were made in the Liv cemetery site, which presented a surprising diversity of grave practices, among which particularly significant are the stone circles surrounding the graves, the offerings of artefacts, the sacrifice of a horse and possible sacrifice of a woman. Considering the horse graves at Ogresgala Čabas, in the cemetery adjacent to Daugmale Hillfort and the offerings of horse body parts at cemeteries in the Lower Daugava area, it seems that the horse played a greater role in Liv mythological belief and ritual than has been assumed hitherto.</p>
      </abstract>
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        <label>Keywords</label>
        <kwd>Livs</kwd>
        <kwd>cemetery</kwd>
        <kwd>grave inventory</kwd>
        <kwd>sacrifice</kwd>
        <kwd>horse grave</kwd>
        <kwd>rituals</kwd>
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