Andrejs Vasks

Biographic Data

ID5598940
NAMEAndrejs Vasks
GIVEN NAMESAndrejs
FAMILY NAMEVasks
SIGNATUREVASKS A
AFFILIATIONSUniversity of Latvia
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS10
TOTAL CITATIONS6
WORKS AS AUTHOR9
WORKS AS EDITOR1
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2011
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2022
H-INDEX1

  • Late Bronze and Pre-Roman Iron Age Bronze Rings – Jewellery or Ingots

    Open AccessAndrejs VasksARTICLELatvijas Vēstures Institūta Žurnāls2022

    Among the bronze items dating to Latvia’s Late Bronze Age (1100–500 BC) and the Pre-Roman Iron Age (500–1 BC) there are rings with open ends that resemble bracelets or necklaces by size. The number of bronze rings and their fragments is not large – 57 units, but that of fragments of casting moulds is much higher – 856. The article deals with the data of both these rings and the respective castings. The main focus is on the problem of the function…

  • The lower reaches of the Daugava in the Bronze and the Earliest Iron Age (1800-500 to the 1st century BC)

    Open AccessAndrejs VasksARTICLEArchaeologia BALTICA2021

    The lower reaches of the Daugava in the Mesolithic and Neolithic were sparsely populated until the second half of the Early Bronze Age (1800–1100 BC). The situation began to change from the 14th century BC, when the process of Neolithisation was over, and the local communities switched completely to animal husbandry and agriculture. In terms of social and economic relations, the area reached its highest level of development in the Late Bronze Age…

  • New Data of Funeral Customs and Burials of Bronze Age Reznes Cemetery in Latvia

    Open AccessAndrejs Vasks, Gunita Zariņa et al.ARTICLEEstonian Journal of Archaeology2021Cited by: 4References: 5

    The Bronze Age barrow cemetery in Reznes was located on the right bank of the River Daugava on a paleoisland. In total, eight barrows have been recorded in the cemetery. Archaeological excavations took place in the 1930s, led by E. Å turms, and in the 1950s and 1960s, led by J. Graudonis. Altogether, seven barrows have been excavated. Several barrows had secondary burials from the Late Iron Age and the historical period, thus complicating archaeo…

  • Re-Evaluating the Bronze and Earliest Iron Age in Latvia

    Open AccessDardega Legzdiņa, Andrejs Vasks et al.ARTICLERadiocarbon2020Cited by: 1References: 11

    Until recently, there was a lack of radiocarbon ( 14 C) dates from the Bronze and Earliest Iron Age (1800–500–1 BC) burial sites in Latvia. The chronology of the sites was assessed on the basis of archaeological analogies with neighboring regions and typological studies of the rather meagre grave inventory. In order to establish a firm foundation for an absolute chronology of burial sites and to better understand changes in mortuary practices dur…

  • Krievu Kalns Hill-Fort

    Open AccessAndrejs Vasks, Vanda Visocka et al.ARTICLEArchaeologia BALTICA2019

    The article examines the results of the 2012 and 2013 archaeological excavations of Skrundas Krievu kalns hill-fort, situated in western Latvia. Krievu kalns was listed as a site in the 1920s, but it was not regarded as a hill-fort. During a site inspection, striated pottery was discovered, and this indicated that it might be numbered as a Late Bronze Age and Pre-Roman Iron Age habitation. Excavations revealed the site to be a hill-fort that was …

  • Simple Stone Work Axes in Latvia

    Open AccessAndrejs VasksARTICLELatvijas Vēstures Institūta Žurnāls2019

    Research interests: prehistory and archaeology of Latvia, the Bronze -Pre-Roman Iron Age in Eastern Baltic

  • Arheoloģija un etnogrāfija

    LU Latvijas vēstures institūts, Andrejs Vasks et al.BOOKArheoloģija un etnogrāfija2016

  • Zooarchaeological Material from the Padure (Beltes) Hill-Fort in Latvia

    Open AccessLinas Daugnora, Andrejs Vasks et al.ARTICLEArchaeologia BALTICA2013

    In the excavated Padure (Beltes) hill-fort in Latvia, cultural layers from the Late Bronze Age and the Early Iron Age (Stage 1), and the middle Iron Age and the Late Iron Age (Stage 2), were detected, which, besides the archaeological material typical of that period, provided abundant zooarchaeological material. This article presents the investigation data from the zooarchaeological material of both stages: the data relate to the butchering techn…

  • Arheoloģija un etnogrāfija

    Andrejs Vasks, Antonija VilcāneEDITORBOOKArheoloģija un etnogrāfija2012Cited by: 1

  • Nauji duomenys apie Šiaurės Vakarų Latvijos piliakalnius

    Open AccessAndrejs VasksARTICLEArchaeologia Lituana2011

    There are some 470 hill-forts in Latvia, 80 of which have seen large- or small-scale excavation (Vasks, 2005, p. 38–42). The majority of these 80 hill-forts are located in eastern Latvia, and only nine have been excavated in the western part of the country. Out of these nine, only Talsi Hill-Fort has been excavated on a large scale, while the rest have been subject only to limited excavation. Accordingly, archaeological research in western Latvia…