Valdis Bērziņš
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 80521 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Valdis Bērziņš |
| PRENOMES | Valdis |
| SOBRENOME | Bērziņš |
| ASSINATURA | BĒRZIŅŠ V |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of Latvia |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3991-5147 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 29 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 73 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 29 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2014 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 5 |
Cordage and plaiting of the fourth millennium BC
Eight samples of cordage along with a unique fragment of miniature birch bark plait, recovered from the classic wetland site of Sārnate in coastal western Latvia, together provide a rare insight into fibrework and plaiting in northeastern Europe in the late fourth millennium BC. Technical analysis of these finds is supplemented by stereomicroscopic examination of the decorative plait imprints that occur on the contemporaneous pottery of the regio…
Koksnes izmantošana dzelzs laikmeta kremācijas rituālos Rietumkurzemes ainavas kontekstā
Rakstā aplūkotas kuršu apbedīšanas tradīcijas ainavas kontekstā, pamatojoties uz kuršu ugunskapos atrasto kokogļu pētījumiem un korelējot tos ar Ķikuru ezera materiāla palinoloģiskiem pētījumiem. Pētījuma areāls aptver Latvijas rietumdaļu, kas atbilst kuršu apdzīvotai teritorijai, kur dominējošais apbedīšanas veids 10./11. gs. – 15. gs. bija kremācija. Franču ceļotājs Žilbērs de Lanuā šajā reģionā sastapies ar kuršiem, kuri mirušos dedzinājuši sā…
Ieskats neolīta podniecības tehnoloģijās Latvijas piejūras teritorijā
Pētījumā aplūkoti Latvijas piejūras reģiona neolīta keramikas tehnoloģiskie aspekti, pamatojoties uz Siliņupes un Slocenes apmetņu materiāla izpēti. Keramika analizēta makroskopiski un ar stereomikroskopu, kā arī ar petrogrāfijas un rentgenstaru fluorescences spektroskopijas metodēm. Apzināti un analizēti vietējie māla resursi. Noskaidrots, ka Siliņupes un Slocenes apmetņu keramika darināta no dažādas izcelsmes māliem, bet neviens no tiem nav no…
No time to waste. Evidence for communal waste management among hunter-gatherer-fishers at Riņņukalns, Latvia (5400-3200 BC)
This study discusses waste management by mid-Holocene hunter-gatherer-fisher communities at Riņņukalns, on the Salaca river in Latvia. It combines microscopic analyses with geochemistry and radiocarbon dating. We observe natural landscape changes and human responses, with Mesolithic and earlier Middle Neolithic occupation on the backswamp. During the later Middle Neolithic, we see a pattern of selective deposition of waste categories (food waste,…
Saules lēkta un rieta virzieni 8.–12. gadsimta latgaļu līdzeno kapulauku kapu orientācijā
Mūsdienu Latvijas austrumdaļu 6./7.–12. gadsimtā apdzīvoja baltu etnolingvistiskajai kopībai piederīgie latgaļi, kuru apbedīšanas tradīciju raksturīgākās iezīmes ir inhumācija un diametrāli pretēja mirušo vīriešu un sieviešu orientācija austrumu–rietumu virzienā. Pētījumā, izmantojot arheoastronomijas metodes, skaidrota apbedījumu austrumu–rietumu orientācijas varbūtējā saistība ar saules lēktu/rietu attiecīgajā bēru rituāla dienā. Astronomiskie …
The Mortuary Landscape of the 1st–12th Centuries
In archaeology, landscape is studied as a cultural, social, and environmental process that simultaneously influences human thinking and is impacted by human actions. From such a perspective, the establishment of cemeteries, too, results from human choice with respect to the environment, engendering a specific mortuary landscape. This is, overall, a little-studied field in the history of research on the Iron Age in Latvia. Even so, a continuous de…
Tales of transformation
This article explores the potential for a broader, more integrated treatment of the long-term development of Latvia’s coastal landscape, seeking avenues for conveying its dynamism. Various transformational processes are considered, with a particular focus on dune migration – formerly a major issue in Latvia but nowadays essentially resolved and forgotten. Relief features of the sandy, forested areas, as well as old pine trees, serve as cues to te…
The chronology of T-shaped antler axe technology in northeastern Europe
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…
A closer look at wound cord
Wound cord (whipped cord, cord stamp) decoration on pottery from the late 4th to early 3rd millennium BC in Latvia has been subject to detailed stereomicroscope study, incorporating reflectance transformation imaging, which proved an invaluable tool for documenting impressions. While this kind of ceramic ornamentation constitutes a European-scale phenomenon, considerable local variation in the methods of making pottery stamps emerges, most signif…
Amber wind and porpoise jaw
Shifting Shores and Stone Age Settlement
This article considers a newly developed model of Holocene shoreline displacement in the southern part of the former Ventspils Lagoon of the Baltic Sea basin (present-day western Latvia) in relation to data from previous and new archaeological research in the area, assessing the changing pattern of Stone Age settlement and resource utilisation during the Mesolithic and Neolithic. An extensive lagoon was formed at the time of the maximum level of …
Pattern and Variation in Jewellery Production Sequences
This study considers the production sequences of amber jewellery from Sārnate and Siliņupe, at the coast of present-day Latvia. Differences between the two sites in terms of the relative frequency of items discarded in various production stages may be related to the degree of integration into exchange networks. Within-assemblage variation in terms of the point within the processing sequence when perforation was performed indicates a strong elemen…
Kokogļu ieguve un Kurzemes hercogistes Engures manufaktūras darbība
Latvijas Universitātes Latvijas vēstures institūta realizētā projekta Cilvēks dinamiskā ainavā: Latvijas piejūras smiltāju biogrāfija ietvaros 2019. gada pavasarī tika veikta Engures apkārtnē konstatēto kokogļu ieguves vietu izpēte. Izpētes laikā apzināts ap 1000 kokogļu ieguves uzkalniņu, vienā no tiem veikti arī arheoloģiskie izrakumi. Atsegto kokogļu paraugu dendrohronoloģiskais un radio-aktīvā oglekļa (14C) datējumi rāda, ka pētītās kokogļu i…
East meets west in the 6 th millennium
A collection of 141 bone and antler tools and debitage pieces recovered from the River Užava at the village of Sise constitutes the largest Mesolithic osseous assemblage in western Latvia. Radiocarbon dating of 12 pieces suggests that most of this collection dates from the 6 th millennium calBC. We present a general analysis, highlighting typical and unique tool forms, ornamented and sculpted pieces, and assess the corpus in a wider geographical …
Hunter-fisher-gatherer pottery production and use at the Neolithic shell-midden of Riņņukalns, Latvia
The shell-midden site of Riņņukalns in northern Latvia offers a rare opportunity to study long-term trends in ceramic production and function at a European hunter-fisher-gatherer site. Riņņukalns was occupied from the sixth millennium BC, with the midden developing from the later fourth millennium. Here, the authors discuss the chaîne opératoire and function of the Riņņukalns material, showing that pottery was used in both the pre-midden and midd…
Burial Practices at Lapiņi Curonian Cremation Cemetery, West Latvia, at the Close of the Iron Age and in the Middle Ages (12th–14th/15th Centuries)
This article examines cremation cemeteries in west Latvia from the end of the Late Iron Age and the Middle Ages (12th–14th/15th centuries). During this period, cremation graves constituted the dominant burial form in the region. We have selected as a case study Lapiņi cemetery, which reveals additional details relating to cremation cemeteries of west Latvia. The aim of the article is to provide further insights into burials of this kind in the Ba…
Two burials in a unique freshwater shell midden
Gone to smelt iron in Courland
In the Duchy of Courland and Semigallia, corresponding to the southern and western parts of present-day Latvia, an iron industry based on blast-furnace technology, mainly using local bog iron ore, existed in the 17th and 18th centuries. Transfer of knowledge and skill through the recruitment of specialists from other countries of Europe was crucial to the development of this industry; technology was also re-exported to Russia and elsewhere. Recen…
Evidence of sixteenth- and seventeenth-century iron production and ironworking in Vidzeme (the example of Ropaži manor)
Using Ropaži Manor as an example, this article analyzes evidence of iron production and ironworking in Vidzeme in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, characterizing the first results from an interdisciplinary study of this previously almost unresearched field. Content analysis of written sources in conjunction with linguistic analysis, archeological fieldwork, remote sensing and geophysics, paleobotany, and analysis of forest growing conditi…
A technological crossroads
A long‐standing debate in archaeology concerns the sources of technological diversification among prehistoric hunter‐gatherers. This includes the study of the emergence and spread of pressure blade technology in Northern Europe during the Early Holocene. Until now, there has been little technological study of lithic collections from the East Baltic region, and our knowledge of the development and spread of this technology in the area is inadequat…
New Aspects of the Mesolithic-Neolithic Cemeteries and Settlement at Zvejnieki, Northern Latvia
The paper reflects upon recent international research at Zvejnieki in northern Latvia, a renowned complex of a burial ground and two settlement sites used in the Mesolithic and Neolithic. Since its discovery and first excavations in the 1960s, Zvejnieki continues to produce evidence that provides new grounds for understanding mortuary practises and ancient lifeways. This information is relevant for other contemporary sites in Europe revealing new…
Neolithic fish remains from the freshwater shell midden Riņņukalns in northern Latvia
The Neolithic site Riņņukalns in the Lake Burtnieks/River Salaca area in northern Latvia is the only freshwater shell midden in the eastern Baltic Sea area. An excavation carried out in 2011 revealed an intact stratigraphy with alternating layers of unburnt and burnt mussel shells and yielded various kinds of archaeological finds, among them several thousand fish remains. To gain an understanding of the fish species and specimens caught by the Ne…
Priedaine
The Neolithic site of Priedaine in Jūrmala was excavated on a small scale in 2007–2008, yielding an assemblage of Comb Ceramics, along with unique wooden implements and fragments of pine-lath fishing structures. The environment and subsistence resources are indicated by plant macrofossil remains and a small faunal collection. Located by a palaeolake and also very close to the sea, the site, dated to c. 3700–3500 cal BC, would have been oriented t…
Stone-age subsistence strategies at Lake Burtnieks, Latvia
Recurrent Mesolithic–Neolithic occupation at Sise (western Latvia) and shoreline displacement in the Baltic Sea Basin
A major assemblage of Mesolithic and Neolithic wooden artefacts has been recovered from the bed of the River Užava at Sise, in the coastal belt of western Latvia. New archaeological investigation has also produced wooden remains and other evidence of occupation on the riverbank. On the basis of multi-proxy environmental data and radiocarbon dating, this article offers a first attempt to place the human activity in a palaeolandscape context. The e…
A technological crossroads
A long‐standing debate in archaeology concerns the sources of technological diversification among prehistoric hunter‐gatherers. This includes the study of the emergence and spread of pressure blade technology in Northern Europe during the Early Holocene. Until now, there has been little technological study of lithic collections from the East Baltic region, and our knowledge of the development and spread of this technology in the area is inadequat…
Two burials in a unique freshwater shell midden
Stone-age subsistence strategies at Lake Burtnieks, Latvia
Dietary freshwater reservoir effects and the radiocarbon ages of prehistoric human bones from Zvejnieki, Latvia
New research at Riņņukalns, a Neolithic freshwater shell midden in northern Latvia
The prehistoric shell middens of Atlantic Europe consist of marine molluscs, but the eastern Baltic did not have exploitable marine species. Here the sole recorded shell midden, at Riņņukalns in Latvia, is on an inland lake and is formed of massive dumps of freshwater shells. Recent excavations indicate that they are the product of a small number of seasonal events during the later fourth millennium BC. The thickness of the shell deposits suggest…
East meets west in the 6 th millennium
A collection of 141 bone and antler tools and debitage pieces recovered from the River Užava at the village of Sise constitutes the largest Mesolithic osseous assemblage in western Latvia. Radiocarbon dating of 12 pieces suggests that most of this collection dates from the 6 th millennium calBC. We present a general analysis, highlighting typical and unique tool forms, ornamented and sculpted pieces, and assess the corpus in a wider geographical …
New Aspects of the Mesolithic-Neolithic Cemeteries and Settlement at Zvejnieki, Northern Latvia
The paper reflects upon recent international research at Zvejnieki in northern Latvia, a renowned complex of a burial ground and two settlement sites used in the Mesolithic and Neolithic. Since its discovery and first excavations in the 1960s, Zvejnieki continues to produce evidence that provides new grounds for understanding mortuary practises and ancient lifeways. This information is relevant for other contemporary sites in Europe revealing new…
Recurrent Mesolithic–Neolithic occupation at Sise (western Latvia) and shoreline displacement in the Baltic Sea Basin
A major assemblage of Mesolithic and Neolithic wooden artefacts has been recovered from the bed of the River Užava at Sise, in the coastal belt of western Latvia. New archaeological investigation has also produced wooden remains and other evidence of occupation on the riverbank. On the basis of multi-proxy environmental data and radiocarbon dating, this article offers a first attempt to place the human activity in a palaeolandscape context. The e…
Potential Freshwater Reservoir Effects in a Neolithic Shell Midden at Riņņkalns, Latvia
Riņņukalns is the only known prehistoric shell midden in the eastern Baltic, and is one of the few middens in northern Europe consisting mainly of freshwater mussel shells. Situated on the Salaca River at the outlet of Lake Burtnieks, in northeastern Latvia, the site was originally excavated in the 1870s, and reinvestigated several times over the following decades. A new excavation in 2011 showed that part of the midden remained intact. The new e…
Pattern and Variation in Jewellery Production Sequences
This study considers the production sequences of amber jewellery from Sārnate and Siliņupe, at the coast of present-day Latvia. Differences between the two sites in terms of the relative frequency of items discarded in various production stages may be related to the degree of integration into exchange networks. Within-assemblage variation in terms of the point within the processing sequence when perforation was performed indicates a strong elemen…
The chronology of T-shaped antler axe technology in northeastern Europe
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…
A closer look at wound cord
Wound cord (whipped cord, cord stamp) decoration on pottery from the late 4th to early 3rd millennium BC in Latvia has been subject to detailed stereomicroscope study, incorporating reflectance transformation imaging, which proved an invaluable tool for documenting impressions. While this kind of ceramic ornamentation constitutes a European-scale phenomenon, considerable local variation in the methods of making pottery stamps emerges, most signif…
Amber wind and porpoise jaw
Gone to smelt iron in Courland
In the Duchy of Courland and Semigallia, corresponding to the southern and western parts of present-day Latvia, an iron industry based on blast-furnace technology, mainly using local bog iron ore, existed in the 17th and 18th centuries. Transfer of knowledge and skill through the recruitment of specialists from other countries of Europe was crucial to the development of this industry; technology was also re-exported to Russia and elsewhere. Recen…
Evidence of sixteenth- and seventeenth-century iron production and ironworking in Vidzeme (the example of Ropaži manor)
Using Ropaži Manor as an example, this article analyzes evidence of iron production and ironworking in Vidzeme in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, characterizing the first results from an interdisciplinary study of this previously almost unresearched field. Content analysis of written sources in conjunction with linguistic analysis, archeological fieldwork, remote sensing and geophysics, paleobotany, and analysis of forest growing conditi…
Neolithic fish remains from the freshwater shell midden Riņņukalns in northern Latvia
The Neolithic site Riņņukalns in the Lake Burtnieks/River Salaca area in northern Latvia is the only freshwater shell midden in the eastern Baltic Sea area. An excavation carried out in 2011 revealed an intact stratigraphy with alternating layers of unburnt and burnt mussel shells and yielded various kinds of archaeological finds, among them several thousand fish remains. To gain an understanding of the fish species and specimens caught by the Ne…
Potential Freshwater Reservoir Effects in a Neolithic Shell Midden at Riņņkalns, Latvia
Riņņukalns is the only known prehistoric shell midden in the eastern Baltic, and is one of the few middens in northern Europe consisting mainly of freshwater mussel shells. Situated on the Salaca River at the outlet of Lake Burtnieks, in northeastern Latvia, the site was originally excavated in the 1870s, and reinvestigated several times over the following decades. A new excavation in 2011 showed that part of the midden remained intact. The new e…
New research at Riņņukalns, a Neolithic freshwater shell midden in northern Latvia
The prehistoric shell middens of Atlantic Europe consist of marine molluscs, but the eastern Baltic did not have exploitable marine species. Here the sole recorded shell midden, at Riņņukalns in Latvia, is on an inland lake and is formed of massive dumps of freshwater shells. Recent excavations indicate that they are the product of a small number of seasonal events during the later fourth millennium BC. The thickness of the shell deposits suggest…
Dietary freshwater reservoir effects and the radiocarbon ages of prehistoric human bones from Zvejnieki, Latvia
Neolithic fish remains from the freshwater shell midden Riņņukalns in northern Latvia
The Neolithic site Riņņukalns in the Lake Burtnieks/River Salaca area in northern Latvia is the only freshwater shell midden in the eastern Baltic Sea area. An excavation carried out in 2011 revealed an intact stratigraphy with alternating layers of unburnt and burnt mussel shells and yielded various kinds of archaeological finds, among them several thousand fish remains. To gain an understanding of the fish species and specimens caught by the Ne…
Neolithic fish remains from the freshwater shell midden Riņņukalns in northern Latvia
The Neolithic site Riņņukalns in the Lake Burtnieks/River Salaca area in northern Latvia is the only freshwater shell midden in the eastern Baltic Sea area. An excavation carried out in 2011 revealed an intact stratigraphy with alternating layers of unburnt and burnt mussel shells and yielded various kinds of archaeological finds, among them several thousand fish remains. To gain an understanding of the fish species and specimens caught by the Ne…
Priedaine
The Neolithic site of Priedaine in Jūrmala was excavated on a small scale in 2007–2008, yielding an assemblage of Comb Ceramics, along with unique wooden implements and fragments of pine-lath fishing structures. The environment and subsistence resources are indicated by plant macrofossil remains and a small faunal collection. Located by a palaeolake and also very close to the sea, the site, dated to c. 3700–3500 cal BC, would have been oriented t…
Stone-age subsistence strategies at Lake Burtnieks, Latvia
Recurrent Mesolithic–Neolithic occupation at Sise (western Latvia) and shoreline displacement in the Baltic Sea Basin
A major assemblage of Mesolithic and Neolithic wooden artefacts has been recovered from the bed of the River Užava at Sise, in the coastal belt of western Latvia. New archaeological investigation has also produced wooden remains and other evidence of occupation on the riverbank. On the basis of multi-proxy environmental data and radiocarbon dating, this article offers a first attempt to place the human activity in a palaeolandscape context. The e…
New Aspects of the Mesolithic-Neolithic Cemeteries and Settlement at Zvejnieki, Northern Latvia
The paper reflects upon recent international research at Zvejnieki in northern Latvia, a renowned complex of a burial ground and two settlement sites used in the Mesolithic and Neolithic. Since its discovery and first excavations in the 1960s, Zvejnieki continues to produce evidence that provides new grounds for understanding mortuary practises and ancient lifeways. This information is relevant for other contemporary sites in Europe revealing new…
Evidence of sixteenth- and seventeenth-century iron production and ironworking in Vidzeme (the example of Ropaži manor)
Using Ropaži Manor as an example, this article analyzes evidence of iron production and ironworking in Vidzeme in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, characterizing the first results from an interdisciplinary study of this previously almost unresearched field. Content analysis of written sources in conjunction with linguistic analysis, archeological fieldwork, remote sensing and geophysics, paleobotany, and analysis of forest growing conditi…
A technological crossroads
A long‐standing debate in archaeology concerns the sources of technological diversification among prehistoric hunter‐gatherers. This includes the study of the emergence and spread of pressure blade technology in Northern Europe during the Early Holocene. Until now, there has been little technological study of lithic collections from the East Baltic region, and our knowledge of the development and spread of this technology in the area is inadequat…
Gone to smelt iron in Courland
In the Duchy of Courland and Semigallia, corresponding to the southern and western parts of present-day Latvia, an iron industry based on blast-furnace technology, mainly using local bog iron ore, existed in the 17th and 18th centuries. Transfer of knowledge and skill through the recruitment of specialists from other countries of Europe was crucial to the development of this industry; technology was also re-exported to Russia and elsewhere. Recen…
Burial Practices at Lapiņi Curonian Cremation Cemetery, West Latvia, at the Close of the Iron Age and in the Middle Ages (12th–14th/15th Centuries)
This article examines cremation cemeteries in west Latvia from the end of the Late Iron Age and the Middle Ages (12th–14th/15th centuries). During this period, cremation graves constituted the dominant burial form in the region. We have selected as a case study Lapiņi cemetery, which reveals additional details relating to cremation cemeteries of west Latvia. The aim of the article is to provide further insights into burials of this kind in the Ba…
Two burials in a unique freshwater shell midden
Kokogļu ieguve un Kurzemes hercogistes Engures manufaktūras darbība
Latvijas Universitātes Latvijas vēstures institūta realizētā projekta Cilvēks dinamiskā ainavā: Latvijas piejūras smiltāju biogrāfija ietvaros 2019. gada pavasarī tika veikta Engures apkārtnē konstatēto kokogļu ieguves vietu izpēte. Izpētes laikā apzināts ap 1000 kokogļu ieguves uzkalniņu, vienā no tiem veikti arī arheoloģiskie izrakumi. Atsegto kokogļu paraugu dendrohronoloģiskais un radio-aktīvā oglekļa (14C) datējumi rāda, ka pētītās kokogļu i…
East meets west in the 6 th millennium
A collection of 141 bone and antler tools and debitage pieces recovered from the River Užava at the village of Sise constitutes the largest Mesolithic osseous assemblage in western Latvia. Radiocarbon dating of 12 pieces suggests that most of this collection dates from the 6 th millennium calBC. We present a general analysis, highlighting typical and unique tool forms, ornamented and sculpted pieces, and assess the corpus in a wider geographical …
Hunter-fisher-gatherer pottery production and use at the Neolithic shell-midden of Riņņukalns, Latvia
The shell-midden site of Riņņukalns in northern Latvia offers a rare opportunity to study long-term trends in ceramic production and function at a European hunter-fisher-gatherer site. Riņņukalns was occupied from the sixth millennium BC, with the midden developing from the later fourth millennium. Here, the authors discuss the chaîne opératoire and function of the Riņņukalns material, showing that pottery was used in both the pre-midden and midd…
Amber wind and porpoise jaw
Shifting Shores and Stone Age Settlement
This article considers a newly developed model of Holocene shoreline displacement in the southern part of the former Ventspils Lagoon of the Baltic Sea basin (present-day western Latvia) in relation to data from previous and new archaeological research in the area, assessing the changing pattern of Stone Age settlement and resource utilisation during the Mesolithic and Neolithic. An extensive lagoon was formed at the time of the maximum level of …
Pattern and Variation in Jewellery Production Sequences
This study considers the production sequences of amber jewellery from Sārnate and Siliņupe, at the coast of present-day Latvia. Differences between the two sites in terms of the relative frequency of items discarded in various production stages may be related to the degree of integration into exchange networks. Within-assemblage variation in terms of the point within the processing sequence when perforation was performed indicates a strong elemen…
A closer look at wound cord
Wound cord (whipped cord, cord stamp) decoration on pottery from the late 4th to early 3rd millennium BC in Latvia has been subject to detailed stereomicroscope study, incorporating reflectance transformation imaging, which proved an invaluable tool for documenting impressions. While this kind of ceramic ornamentation constitutes a European-scale phenomenon, considerable local variation in the methods of making pottery stamps emerges, most signif…
Koksnes izmantošana dzelzs laikmeta kremācijas rituālos Rietumkurzemes ainavas kontekstā
Rakstā aplūkotas kuršu apbedīšanas tradīcijas ainavas kontekstā, pamatojoties uz kuršu ugunskapos atrasto kokogļu pētījumiem un korelējot tos ar Ķikuru ezera materiāla palinoloģiskiem pētījumiem. Pētījuma areāls aptver Latvijas rietumdaļu, kas atbilst kuršu apdzīvotai teritorijai, kur dominējošais apbedīšanas veids 10./11. gs. – 15. gs. bija kremācija. Franču ceļotājs Žilbērs de Lanuā šajā reģionā sastapies ar kuršiem, kuri mirušos dedzinājuši sā…
Ieskats neolīta podniecības tehnoloģijās Latvijas piejūras teritorijā
Pētījumā aplūkoti Latvijas piejūras reģiona neolīta keramikas tehnoloģiskie aspekti, pamatojoties uz Siliņupes un Slocenes apmetņu materiāla izpēti. Keramika analizēta makroskopiski un ar stereomikroskopu, kā arī ar petrogrāfijas un rentgenstaru fluorescences spektroskopijas metodēm. Apzināti un analizēti vietējie māla resursi. Noskaidrots, ka Siliņupes un Slocenes apmetņu keramika darināta no dažādas izcelsmes māliem, bet neviens no tiem nav no…
No time to waste. Evidence for communal waste management among hunter-gatherer-fishers at Riņņukalns, Latvia (5400-3200 BC)
This study discusses waste management by mid-Holocene hunter-gatherer-fisher communities at Riņņukalns, on the Salaca river in Latvia. It combines microscopic analyses with geochemistry and radiocarbon dating. We observe natural landscape changes and human responses, with Mesolithic and earlier Middle Neolithic occupation on the backswamp. During the later Middle Neolithic, we see a pattern of selective deposition of waste categories (food waste,…
Saules lēkta un rieta virzieni 8.–12. gadsimta latgaļu līdzeno kapulauku kapu orientācijā
Mūsdienu Latvijas austrumdaļu 6./7.–12. gadsimtā apdzīvoja baltu etnolingvistiskajai kopībai piederīgie latgaļi, kuru apbedīšanas tradīciju raksturīgākās iezīmes ir inhumācija un diametrāli pretēja mirušo vīriešu un sieviešu orientācija austrumu–rietumu virzienā. Pētījumā, izmantojot arheoastronomijas metodes, skaidrota apbedījumu austrumu–rietumu orientācijas varbūtējā saistība ar saules lēktu/rietu attiecīgajā bēru rituāla dienā. Astronomiskie …
Archaeology (23 obras) · Geography (22 obras) · Archaeology and ancient environmental studies (18 obras) · Ancient and Medieval Archaeology Studies (10 obras) · Midden (10 obras) · Mesolithic (9 obras) · Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology (9 obras) · Geology and Paleoclimatology Research (7 obras) · History (7 obras) · Prehistory (7 obras)