Laurynas Kurila

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Is there any evidence of using fire or smoke signals in European Barbaricum?

Can anyone help with references to literature, historical sources or archaeological papers, if there is any evidence of using fire or smoke signals upon threat of attack or in other circumstances...

22 November 2017 5,105 0 View

Can stable isotope analysis of human and herbiovare remains help to eliminate the freshwater reservoir effect in AMS dating of human bones?

I faced a problem with AMS dates of human bones. The dates of a sample of human remains appeared apparently too old, and I tend to explain this by the freshwater reservoir effect. As far as I...

11 June 2016 5,836 4 View

Has anyone any idea what kind of artefact this is?

It was found in a Migration period (ca 500 AD) burial in Lithuania. The body is made of iron and decorated with three lead-tin alloy discs (see image). It seems to me too thick to be a pin. No...

31 May 2016 5,672 15 View

Any analogies to barrows (burial mounds) of this unusual shape?

Could anyone point to analogies to unusual barrow shape, of which we have only several examples in Lithuania. These are rather small in height (up to some 2 metres) but large in diameter (30-40...

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