Interpreting Taurapilis Prehistoric Site: a Landscape Revealing the Power?
Volume 8 (2007): Weapons, Weaponry and Man (In memoriam Vytautas Kazakevičius), pp. 155–159
Pub. online: 9 November 2007
Type: Article
Open Access
Open Access
Received
16 December 2006
16 December 2006
Revised
20 May 2007
20 May 2007
Published
9 November 2007
9 November 2007
Abstract
In this article, some new approaches to Taurapilis prehistoric site, situated in the Utena district in Lithuania, are proposed. As a projection of a taurus horn on the ground in a water form, Lake Tauragnas was the principal factor shaping the particular prehistoric space and determining its status. In this way also, the origins of the Taurapilis Central Place, dated to the fifth or sixth centuries, are explained.