Tšcineco kultūra Lietuvoje
Volume 41, Issue 1 (2015): Lietuvos archeologija, pp. 9–44
Pub. online: 18 February 2025
Type: Article
Open Access
Received
5 May 2015
5 May 2015
Published
18 February 2025
18 February 2025
Abstract
The article presents the Trzciniec culture (Trzciniec cultural cycle), an Early and Middle Bronze Age archaeological phenomenon in Lithuania. It analyses various aspects of the concept and chronology of the culture and presents a history of the research in the culture’s territory. Priority is given to archaeological pottery, the main indicator for cultural identification. The article gives the main distinguishing features of the ceramic vessels, their types, their ornamentation, and their attribution to either the East-Trzciniec or West-Trzciniec culture. Finally the article analyses the Bronze Age cultural situation in the Eastern Baltic region and raises the question of whether the Trzciniec culture existed in Lithuania and in what form.