Title When did domesticated horses appear in Lithuania?
Translation of Title Kada Lietuvoje pasirodė prijaukinti arkliai?
Authors Girininkas, Algirdas ; Daugnora, Linas ; Antanaitis-Jacobs, Indrė
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Is Part of Archaeologia Baltica: The horse and man in European antiquity (worldview, burial rites, and military and everyday life).. Klaipėda : Klaipėdos universiteto leidykla. 2009, vol. 11, p. 22-31.. ISSN 1392-5520. eISSN 2351-6534
Keywords [eng] Lithuania ; horses ; domestic fauna ; Late Neolithic, Early Bronze Age, Eneolithic ; Early Bronze Age
Abstract [eng] The horse bones found in Lithuanian habitation sites that date to the Late Neolithic and to the Early Bronze Age still do not indicate that these horses were ridden upon or used to plough the soil. However, horse bones have been found in Lithuanian territory only in those sites where bones of other animals that were domesticated have been found. This suggests that domesticated horses in Lithuania might have spread together with other domesticated animals by way of cultural diffusion during the Late Neolithic and Early Bronze Age.
Published Klaipėda : Klaipėdos universiteto leidykla
Type Journal article
Language English
Publication date 2009
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