Lietuvos istorijos institutas

The article presents the most important statistical analysis methods applicable for archaeology and presents examples of their performance using SPSS software. The statistical research examples use chemical analysis data for lime mortar. The theoretical basis is the perception of a find as a text in a semiotic sense, which perception is compatible with the application of computer hardware and software and of mathematical statistical analysis methods.

The object of the study is the formation and evolution of territorial units in the Eastern Lithuania in the 1st–15th centuries. On the basis of theoretical framework, investigations of foreign authors and GIS analysis of the development of archaeological sites of Eastern Lithuania, authors validate the model of territorialisation of this region, analyse it‘s evolution in different periods up to the christianisation of Lithuania and beginnings of formation of the network or churches.