The Late Bronze Age (1100–500 cal BC) has been the focus of many recent studies in the Baltic

region. The contacts between societies in the Baltic Sea area are identified by bronze, amber, pottery

and other artefacts, but there is still little evidence of contact between the western and eastern

coasts. This article presents analysis of a pottery assemblage from the Kukuliškiai site (880–400

cal BC) (Lithuania) and its macroscopy and inductively coupled plasma mass atomic emission

spectrometry (ICP-MA/ES) results. Macroscopic examination of the pottery revealed that the

assemblage consists of various vessel surface types: smooth (41%), rusticated (11%), Kukuliškiai-

Otterböte type (4.5%), striated (13%) and burnished (8%). The assemblage has more similarities

with pottery in Scandinavia and northern Poland than with the eastern Baltic Late Bronze

Age pottery.

The ICP-MA/ES analysis of a sample of sherds from Kukuliškiai has shown that the vessels were

most likely made from partly different clays collected in the vicinity of the settlement. This pottery

was locally made but the assemblage’s composition and the presence of the Kukuliškiai-Otterböte

pottery type (KOP) suggests intensive cultural exchange between the two sides of the Baltic Sea.