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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spelling oai:doaj.org-article:73778497e8b346338565ea34ff2297332021-11-24T18:44:18ZThe quest for palaeolithic art in the Neris river valley, Central-Eastern Lithuania0003-8180https://doaj.org/article/73778497e8b346338565ea34ff2297332021-11-01T00:00:00Zhttp://journals.iaepan.pl/apol/article/view/2885https://doaj.org/toc/0003-8180 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. Gabrielė GudaitienėInstitute of Archaeology and Ethnology Polish Academy of SciencesarticleFinal Palaeolithicmobile artengraved pebbleblade with notchesflint figurineMesolithicAuxiliary sciences of historyCPrehistoric archaeologyGN700-890Medieval historyD111-203DEENPLArcheologia Polski, Vol 66 (2021)
institution DOAJ
collection DOAJ
language DE
EN
PL
topic Final Palaeolithic
mobile art
engraved pebble
blade with notches
flint figurine
Mesolithic
Auxiliary sciences of history
C
Prehistoric archaeology
GN700-890
Medieval history
D111-203
spellingShingle Final Palaeolithic
mobile art
engraved pebble
blade with notches
flint figurine
Mesolithic
Auxiliary sciences of history
C
Prehistoric archaeology
GN700-890
Medieval history
D111-203
Gabrielė Gudaitienė
The quest for palaeolithic art in the Neris river valley, Central-Eastern Lithuania
description 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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title The quest for palaeolithic art in the Neris river valley, Central-Eastern Lithuania
title_short The quest for palaeolithic art in the Neris river valley, Central-Eastern Lithuania
title_full The quest for palaeolithic art in the Neris river valley, Central-Eastern Lithuania
title_fullStr The quest for palaeolithic art in the Neris river valley, Central-Eastern Lithuania
title_full_unstemmed The quest for palaeolithic art in the Neris river valley, Central-Eastern Lithuania
title_sort quest for palaeolithic art in the neris river valley, central-eastern lithuania
publisher Institute of Archaeology and Ethnology Polish Academy of Sciences
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