Did They Exist? The Question of Elites in Western Lithuania in the Roman and Early Migration Periods, and Their Interregional Contacts
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 19151276 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Rasa Banytė-Rowell (Lithuanian Institute of History), Anna Bitner-Wróblewska (Lithuanian Institute of History), Christine Reich (State Archaeological Museum, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2012 |
| Volume | 18 |
| Pages | 192-220 |
| Publication date | 2012-12-30 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Archaeologia BALTICA (BOOK_SERIES) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1392-5520 • E-ISSN: 2351-6534 |
| Publisher | Klaipeda University Press (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.15181/ab.v18i0.72 |
| OpenAlex | W2071511175 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 7 |
The emergence of Iron Age elites in the Baltic lands is discussed here in the context of western Lithuania, a region with local amber deposits and distant interregional connections, with reference to what is called the West Lithuanian Group, with cemeteries with stone circles. No interregional status symbols have been recorded in the area, but it is possible to identify local prestige goods, such as equestrian equipment, horse offerings, drinking horns and decorative belt sets (male indicators), and elaborate headdresses and necklaces, and splendid pectoral ornaments (female indicators). Precious imports and silver or silver-plated* ornaments are to be found in both male and female graves. The inhabitants of western Lithuania in the Roman and Early Migration periods differed according to their social status. It is possible to distinguish quite a large number of well-equipped graves, but no exceptionally rich ones. Local elites existed in certain small territorial communities, but there were no regional elites. The destroyed grave 31 at Baitai may be an exception to this rule: it presents a sign of the appearance of people of very high rank, a process which developed further in later periods
Ancient history · Archaeology · Ethnology · Geography · Grave goods · Lithuanian · Ornaments · Prestige · Ancient and Medieval Archaeology Studies · Ancient Mediterranean Archaeology and History · Historical and Archaeological Studies · History
Stable isotopes in an unstable time
The Eastern Baltic
Millennia of Mitochondrial Change
The first data on the human diet in Late Roman and Early Migration period western Lithuania
Human-Horse Burials in Lithuania in the Late Second to Seventh Century ad
Human diet in Lithuania during the Late Roman and Migration periods ( ca. 200–700 AD) based on stable carbon and nitrogen isotope data
West Lithuania as a Golden Bridge between the Sea and the Baltic Hinterland in Northeast Poland during the Roman and Migration Periods
| Citations per year | 0.7 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2016 - 2026 (11) |
| Highly cited | No |