Lietuvos archeologija

The article examines Lithuanian cartography from an archaeological perspective: it analyses the instructions for cartographers and reviews the results of their work: various sets of maps of Lithuania’s territory (late 17th–20th century). At the centre of the article is the 1891–1907 topographic map of the western provinces of the Russian Empire, 1:21 000 scale, in which the article’s authors analysed the mapped barrows of East and South Lithuania using GIS tools and surveyed them during fieldwork in 2008. The experience accumulated by the authors over three years has allowed them to formulate the general methodological prerequisites for forming a map archaeology research field.