The Early Bronze Age in Lithuania, and especially the final part, saw the most important changes in the structure of the

production economy and society. Unlike in Central or Western Europe, the Neolithic Revolution, as Vere Gordon Childe

understood it, was taking place in the east Baltic region at exactly that time, that is, the first half of the second millennium

BC. The communities which inhabited individual regions in Lithuania in the Early Bronze Age gave rise to a unique method

of economic management that to a large extent influenced the development of the structure of individual communities. In

this article, on the basis of archaeological, palynological and zooarchaeological material, we discuss the economic and social

structures of two distinct territorial community groups, one that lived at Šventoji on the Baltic coast, and one that lived inland

by Lake Kretuonas.