Adomas Butrimas

Biographic Data

ID5004431
NAMEAdomas Butrimas
GIVEN NAMESAdomas
FAMILY NAMEButrimas
SIGNATUREBUTRIMAS A
AFFILIATIONSVilnius Academy of Arts
ORCID0009-0008-5586-1656
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS10
TOTAL CITATIONS4
WORKS AS AUTHOR10
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2012
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2025
H-INDEX1

  • 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 chronology of T-shaped antler axe technology in northeastern Europe

    Harald Lübke, Tomas Rimkus et al.ARTICLEPraehistorische Zeitschrift2024Cited by: 1

    We present new AMS 14 C dates and technological characteristics of an enigmatic osseous implement – the T-shaped antler axe. T-shaped axes (T-axes) are made of red deer ( Cervus elaphus L.) antler beams with the perforation for a shaft through the removed trez tine. Our study centres on 33 axes from Belarus, Latvia and Lithuania, most of which were found during drainage of wetlands or sediment extraction in the 20 th century, and thus remained un…

  • T-shaped antler axes in Lithuania

    Open AccessTomas Rimkus, Adomas Butrimas et al.ARTICLEArchaeologia BALTICA2023Cited by: 1References: 6

    This paper discusses one of the most characteristic hunter-gatherer osseous implements — the T-shaped antler axe. These are made from red deer (Cervus elaphus) antler beam by removing the trez tine and creating a perforation for a shaft in its place. This type of axe is quite widely known in the Late Mesolithic and Early Neolithic contexts of northern, western and central Europe. Until now, T-shaped antler axes have been only sporadically mention…

  • 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…

  • Rimutė Rimantienė

    Open AccessAdomas ButrimasARTICLEArchaeologia Lituana2017

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  • From Mesolithic to Early Christianity

    Open AccessAdomas ButrimasARTICLESociology and Anthropology2017

    Several ritual complexes are known in Europe, the origins of which reach back to the Stone Age, and their chain of development includes the metal ages or even the period of official conversion to Christianity, such as Stonehenge (England), Newgrange (Ireland), and Alvastra near Lake Tåkern (Sweden). Such complexes stretching across a long chronological period are known also from western Lithuania, in Žemaitija (Samogitia). On the basis of archaeo…

  • Marija Alseikaitė-Gimbutienė – baltų archeologijos tyrėja

    Open AccessAdomas ButrimasARTICLELituanistica2012

    Publikacijoje atskleidžiami žymiausios lietuvių archeologės nuopelnai baltų archeo­logijai. Pirmieji penkiolika jos veiklos ir tyrimų metų skirti baltų archeologijos ge­ležies amžiaus laidosenai aptarti. Vėliau per visą jos mokslinę karjerą vyraujant in­doeuropiečių kilmės ar senosios Europos civilizacijos tyrimams, baltų archeologija visada buvo jos interesų lauke ir visada buvo jos tautinės, mokslinės ir kultūrinės tapatybės dalimi