Marius Iršėnas

Biographic Data

ID4987873
NAMEMarius Iršėnas
GIVEN NAMESMarius
FAMILY NAMEIršėnas
SIGNATUREIRŠĖNAS M
AFFILIATIONSVilnius Academy of Arts
ORCID0000-0003-2875-7374
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS6
TOTAL CITATIONS9
WORKS AS AUTHOR6
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2018
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2025
H-INDEX2

  • An engraved tooth pendant from Donkalnis, western Lithuania

    Open AccessAdomas Butrimas, Marius Iršėnas et al.ARTICLEAntiquity2025References: 3

    A re-examination of animal tooth pendants from Mesolithic (c. 9000–5000 BC in Lithuania) graves at Donkalnis (western Lithuania) revealed one engraved specimen. Among the hundreds of pendants reported for this period in the eastern Baltic, engravings are rare. The discovery offers new insights into the human-animal relationships reflected in northern forager burial traditions

  • Socketed antler toggle harpoon head – a unique huntergatherer fishing implement in western Lithuania’s freshwater lake environment

    Open AccessAdomas Butrimas, Tomas Rimkus et al.ARTICLEEstonian Journal of Archaeology2024References: 9

    DaktariÅ¡kÄ 5 is a hunter­gatherer site with organic preservation in western Lithuania. It is located on a former island of Lake BirÅ3⁄4ulis, where most finds were obtained in the lacustrine environment. The excavations revealed various osseous tools, such as axes and adzes, projectile points, barbed points, gouges and chisels, dating from the 6th to the 3rd millennium cal BC. Despite the abundance of finds in the vicinity of Lake BirÅ3⁄4ulis, in…

  • The Decorated Spindle-Shaped Bone Dagger from Šarnelė

    Open AccessTomas Rimkus, Adomas Butrimas et al.ARTICLEArchaeologia BALTICA2019

    This paper presents the latest data on a spindle-shaped decorated bone dagger, which was found as a stray find in the village of Šarnelė in northwest Lithuania, and which recently been dated to the Final Palaeolithic. It is currently the only one such example of osseous technology in Lithuania dated to this period. In 2016, we started to reinvestigate the Stone Age material from the Samogitian highland by AMS radiocarbon (14C) dating, stable isot…

  • Amber Discs with Cross Decoration

    Open AccessAdomas Butrimas, Regina Ulozaitė et al.ARTICLEArchaeologia BALTICA2018

    Amber discs with cross decoration are the research subject of this article. The article discusses their proliferation, typology and chronology. The amber disc from the Daktariškė 5 settlement is analysed in greater detail: its decoration, the number of holes, regularities, spectral analysis and possible symbolic meanings are discussed

  • The Elks of Šventoji

    Open AccessMarius Iršėnas, Tomas Rimkus et al.ARTICLEArchaeologia BALTICA2018Cited by: 2

    The elk staff is a characteristic Stone Age artefact from the Baltic region. The most elegant specimens have been found in the Olenij Ostrov burial site and various Stone Age sites in Šventoji. In 2016, the use-wear of artefacts found in the Stone Age sites of Šventoji was studied microscopically under a magnification factor of 690. The research effort also resulted in the successful dating of one of the staves found at the third archaeological s…

  • New Dates from Zvejnieki Burial Ground Graves with Anthropomorphic and Zoomorphic Figurines

    Open AccessIlga Zagorska, John Meadows et al.ARTICLEArchaeologia BALTICA2018Cited by: 7References: 1

    This article discusses the imagery of anthropomorphic and zoomorphic figurines which accompanied eleven burials in the Stone Age cemetery at Zvejnieki, Latvia. These burials date to the sixth, fifth and early-mid fourth millennia cal BC, according to radiocarbon dates of human remains from ten of the eleven burials, three of which were dated for this paper. The figurines are considered in terms of their characteristic formal qualities and their p…