Lietuvos archeologija

Vienų įdomiausių tautų kraustymosi periodo baltiškų dirbinių rūšių– peilių-durklų tyrimai ligšiol apsiribodavo jų formos, metrinių parametrų, ornamentacijos aprašymais. Dirbinių gamybos technologiniai aspektai kol kas nebuvo tyrinėjami. Šiame straipsnyje aptariami peilių rentgenografinių ir metalografinių tyrimų rezultatai. Buvo tyrinėti prieškarinės Karaliaučiaus muziejaus „Prussia“ kolekcijos dirbiniai bei radiniai, aptikti pastarųjų metų kasinėjimuose Shosejnoje kapinyne metu (buv. Warthen), Kaliningrado sr.

The article presents a reliability assessment of the osteological sex determination of a cremated individual. For this it uses material from 80 cremations from East Lithuanian barrows. The research method is a comparison of the sex of interred individuals as determined osteologically and the gender determined on the basis of grave goods. It is asserted that the minimum reliability of osteological sexing is approximately 70% and that it is probably even as high as about 85%.

Textile research in Lithuania consists of fibre analysis: microscopic and microchemical analysis, colour analysis and determination of fibre constitution using Fourier Transform Infrared Spectroscopy (FTIR), pattern measures, defining the loom type, thread dyes (colorant analysis), evaluation of the origin, and dating the find. In order to identify the textile colorants found in Lithuania, natural dyes are identified through microchemical qualitative and chromatography analysis as well as through IR spectroscopy.

The article presents material from the archaeological excavations at Aþuðilë barrow cemetery. During 2000–2007, 12 badly disturbed mounds were excavated in it. They were ringed with pits or ditches and some of them had stone kerbs. Cremations with grave goods or the remains of disturbed burials and isolated finds were discovered in the barrows. The majority of them date to the 8th–9th centuries.