AB Archaeologia Baltica 1392-5520 1392-5520 KU 18_224-255_SHIROUKHOV 10.15181/ab.v18i0.73 Article Prussian Graves in the Sambian Peninsula, with Imports, Weapons and Horse Harnesses, from the Tenth to the 13th Century: The Question of the Warrior Elite Shiroukhov Roman ramans@prusai.org ∗ Klaipėda University Corresponding author. 18 224 255 30 12 2012 30 12 2012 29 01 2012 16 04 2012 07 10 2012 2012 Klaipėda University

The article presents the latest data on tenth to 13th-century imports, graves with weapons and horse harnesses in the north Prussian area. The study is made on the basis of five recently investigated Prussian cemeteries, and on vast prewar published and archival data. Questions of the Sambian Aschenplätze and social differentiation in Medieval Prussian society are also partly described. In addition, the 12th and 13th-century and Teutonic Period inhumation graves with weapons and horse harnesses are analysed briefly, in order to demonstrate both the continuity of tenth to 13th-century Prussian culture and its transformation brought about by 13th-century political changes.

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