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Skomantai Hill-Fort in Western Lithuania: A Case Study on Habitation Site and Environment
Volume 17 (2012): People at the Crossroads of Space and Time (Footmarks of Societies in Ancient Europe) I, pp. 101–135
Audronė Bliujienė   Miglė Stančikaitė   Dalia Kiselienė     All authors (9)

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https://doi.org/10.15181/ab.v17i0.55
Pub. online: 20 November 2012      Type: Article      Open accessOpen Access

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22 April 2012
Revised
19 June 2012
Accepted
28 September 2012
Published
20 November 2012

Abstract

Hill-forts are visually distinct archaeological monuments of the Lithuanian landscape; despite excavations that have recently become more intensive, more often than not we still make judgments of hill-forts on the basis of their surviving image, which is assumed to reflect the final stage of their existence. Usually our knowledge about the size of the settlement at its foot, its planigraphy, and of course chronology, is too slender to make any conclusions. By employing complex non-destructive research methods (palynological, geochemical, lithological and geomagnetic analysis, as well as 14C and thermoluminescence dating), the article discusses the time of the rise and the abandonment of Skomantai hill-fort and settlements, the hierarchical relations with the hill-fort as an object forming the settlement structure of the neighbouring area, both settlements at the foot of the hill, and the surrounding burial grounds and monuments, all of which make up a micro-region. As the economic model of the community and the social structure of society changed, the relations between the hill-fort and the settlements changed, as did the purpose of the hill-fort.

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Keywords
western Lithuania Skomantai hill-fort settlements micro-region human activity non-destructive research methods 14C dating thermoluminescence dating

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