About Some Aspects of Scalvian Armament on the Basis of Investigations in Viešvilė Cemetery
Volume 8 (2007): Weapons, Weaponry and Man (In memoriam Vytautas Kazakevičius), pp. 205–213
Pub. online: 9 November 2007
Type: Article
Open Access
Open Access
Received
14 December 2006
14 December 2006
Revised
22 May 2007
22 May 2007
Published
9 November 2007
9 November 2007
Abstract
Viešvilė cemetery, situated in the Jurbarkas district (the lower Nemunas region in Lithuania), belongs to the Scalvian Baltic ethnocultural group and has been investigated for the last six years. The site contains archaeological material characteristic of ninth to 11th-century Scalvians. The research material gathered during the excavations would allow us to state that those who were buried in the cemetery were related to a dominant part of Scalvian society of that time.