Title Skomantai hill-fort in Western Lithuania: a case study on habitation site and environment /
Translation of Title Faktai apie gyvenimą Skomantų (Vakarų Lietuva) piliakalnyje ir jo apylinkėse.
Authors Bliujienė, Audronė ; Stančikaitė, Miglė ; Kisielienė, Dalia ; Mažeika, Jonas ; Taraškevičius, Ričardas ; Messal, Sebastian ; Szwarczewski, Piotr ; Kusiak, Jarosław ; Stakėnienė, Rimutė
DOI 10.15181/ab.v17i0.55
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Is Part of Archaeologia Baltica: People at the crossroads of space and time (footmarks of societies in ancient Europe). Vol. 1.. Klaipėda : Klaipėdos universiteto leidykla. 2012, vol. 17, p. 101-135.. ISSN 1392-5520. eISSN 2351-6534
Keywords [eng] western Lithuania ; Skomantai ; hill-fort ; settlements ; micro-region ; human activity ; non-destructive research methods ; 14C dating ; thermoluminescence dating
Abstract [eng] 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.
Published Klaipėda : Klaipėdos universiteto leidykla
Type Journal article
Language English
Publication date 2012
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