Armed People of East and Southeast Lithuania in the Geocultural Context of the Migration Period
Volume 19 (2013): Societies of the Past: Approaches to Landscape, Burial Customs and Grave Goods, pp. 145–165
Pub. online: 30 September 2013
Type: Article
Open Access
Open Access
Received
18 March 2013
18 March 2013
Revised
11 May 2013
11 May 2013
Accepted
18 July 2013
18 July 2013
Published
30 September 2013
30 September 2013
Abstract
The article discusses the rapidly changing geocultural situation from the fifth to the seventh century in east and southeast Lithuania. As chiefdoms with strong leaders were taking shape from the fifth to the seventh centuries, the demonstration of power by means of exceptional weapons and other cultural elements became a highly important factor.