Tšcineco kultūra Lietuvoje
Volume 41, Issue 1 (2015): Lietuvos archeologija, pp. 9–44
Type: Article
Open Access
Received
5 May 2015
5 May 2015
Pub. online
18 February 2025
18 February 2025
Pub. print
14 September 2015
14 September 2015
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.