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      <journal-id journal-id-type="publisher-id">AB</journal-id>
      <journal-title-group>
        <journal-title>Archaeologia Baltica</journal-title>
      </journal-title-group>
      <issn pub-type="epub">1392-5520</issn>
      <issn pub-type="ppub">1392-5520</issn>
      <publisher>
        <publisher-name>KU</publisher-name>
      </publisher>
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      <article-id pub-id-type="publisher-id">23_096-111_KARCZEWSKA_KARCZEWSKI</article-id>
      <article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.15181/ab.v23i0.1299</article-id>
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          <subject>Article</subject>
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        <article-title>Landscapes of Cemeteries from the Roman and Migration Periods in the Masurian Lakeland (Northeast Poland)</article-title>
      </title-group>
      <contrib-group>
        <contrib contrib-type="author">
          <name>
            <surname>Karczewska</surname>
            <given-names>Małgorzata</given-names>
          </name>
          <email xlink:href="mailto:malgorzata.karczewska@gmail.com">malgorzata.karczewska@gmail.com</email>
          <xref ref-type="aff" rid="j_AB_aff_000"/>
          <xref ref-type="corresp" rid="cor1">∗</xref>
        </contrib>
        <aff id="j_AB_aff_000">Research Centre of Central and Eastern Europe</aff>
        <contrib contrib-type="author">
          <name>
            <surname>Karczewski</surname>
            <given-names>Maciej</given-names>
          </name>
          <email xlink:href="mailto:barbaricum@wp.pl">barbaricum@wp.pl</email>
          <xref ref-type="aff" rid="j_AB_aff_001"/>
        </contrib>
        <aff id="j_AB_aff_001">Institute of history and Political Sciences</aff>
      </contrib-group>
      <author-notes>
        <corresp id="cor1"><label>∗</label>Corresponding author.</corresp>
      </author-notes>
      <volume>23</volume>
      <fpage>96</fpage>
      <lpage>111</lpage>
      <pub-date pub-type="ppub">
        <day>22</day>
        <month>07</month>
        <year>2016</year>
      </pub-date>
      <pub-date pub-type="epub">
        <day>22</day>
        <month>07</month>
        <year>2016</year>
      </pub-date>
      <history>
        <date date-type="received">
          <day>29</day>
          <month>02</month>
          <year>2016</year>
        </date>
        <date date-type="rev-recd">
          <day>28</day>
          <month>03</month>
          <year>2016</year>
        </date>
        <date date-type="accepted">
          <day>26</day>
          <month>05</month>
          <year>2016</year>
        </date>
      </history>
      <permissions>
        <copyright-year>2016</copyright-year>
        <copyright-holder>Klaipėda University</copyright-holder>
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      <abstract>
        <p>The article discusses the question of palaeolandscapes of cemeteries from the Roman Period and the Migration Period in the area of the Masurian Lakeland. The primary purpose of the multidisciplinary study was to answer the questions: 1) whether the natural features of the palaeolandscape were important for the choice of location for a cemetery; and 2) whether the inside landscapes of cemeteries were consciously shaped and lasted long. An analysis of the locations of several cemeteries from the Roman Period and the Migration Period uncovered in the study area showed clearly that there was a close relationship between the location of the cemetery and palaeo environmental conditions, especially the relief, bodies of water (lakes, rivers and streams), and the plant cover. Of particular importance were elevated isthmuses between two lakes. The specific habitat conditions of these areas conditioned the specific and diverse plant cover. All of these elements of the natural palaeolandscape made the sacred place clearly visible in the settlement area. Case studies of the cemetery in the village of Paprotki kolonia (northeast Poland) showed that the layout of the cemetery lasted long, and was clearly visible to the local community in the first centuries AD. It enabled the precise location of the next cremations, horse sacrifices and other ritual activities in the area of the cemetery.</p>
      </abstract>
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        <label>Keywords</label>
        <kwd>West Balts</kwd>
        <kwd>Roman Period</kwd>
        <kwd>palaeolandscapes</kwd>
        <kwd>cemeteries</kwd>
        <kwd>multidisciplinary studies</kwd>
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