The quest for palaeolithic art in the Neris river valley, Central-Eastern Lithuania
Only a few artifacts discovered in Lithuania can be considered as examples of portable art from the Final Palaeolithic period. Three of them were found in the Neris river valley in central- eastern Lithuania: an engraved slate pebble from the Eiguliai 1А site, a notched blade from the Skaruliai 1 s...
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Institute of Archaeology and Ethnology Polish Academy of Sciences
2021
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| Sumario: | Only a few artifacts discovered in Lithuania can be considered as examples of portable
art from the Final Palaeolithic period. Three of them were found in the Neris river valley in central-
eastern Lithuania: an engraved slate pebble from the Eiguliai 1А site, a notched blade from
the Skaruliai 1 site, and a flint “figurine” from the Vilnius 1 site. Discovered by Rimutė Rimantienė
and her father Konstantinas Jablonskis, these three finds were the first and for many years
the only artifacts underpinning the discussion of art from the Lithuanian Final Palaeolithic. The
debate on the tentative function of these items, initiated by Rimantienė, is reviewed in this study
before presenting the results of the latest research on the subject between 2012 and 2017, carried
out using a range of methods: visual examination, comparative analysis with other archaeological
finds and reconstructed prehistoric tools, surface analysis under a microscope. The functional
interpretation proposed as a result of these investigations in two cases disproves the identification
of these artifacts as portable art.
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