Lietuvos istorijos institutas

This article seeks to discuss and create a complex investigation method, which would allow the social structure of a buried community to be evaluated as objectively as possible and would highlight a more universal evaluation of amber artefacts. With the help of the archaeological material from the community buried in Mazkatuži cemetery (West Lithuanian Stone Circle (Kerb) Grave culture), it seeks to illustrate the advantages of a unified method in analysing the community’s social distribution and the valuation of amber artefacts.