Archaeologia Lituana
type: channel
description: Founded in 1999 and dedicated to analysing the issues on the history and methodology of archaeology and important archaeological research data in the Baltic region. Indexed in the Scopus database since 2021.
publisher: Vilniaus universiteto leidykla / Vilnius University Press
language: en
publication name: Archaeologia Lituana
issn: 2538-8738
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items: Review of the Scientific Activity of the Department of Archaeology (2025)
items: The 14th c. Inhabitants of the Outskirts of Curvum Castrum: Paleoenvironment and Diet Based on Archaeobotanical Research Data from Kosciuškos Street 1
items: Research Conducted at the Site of T. Kosciuškos Street 1, Vilnius
items: Topography of Legend: Where did Grand Duke Gediminas Hunt the Tauras?
items: Archaeological Research on the Shores of Valiūniškės Paleolake (Slabada and Būda Sites, South Lithuania)
items: Preface
items: Pratarmė
items: Editorial Board and Table of Contents
items: New Insights into Iron Age Ceramic Production Technology Based on Macroscopic, Petrographic and Chemical Data
items: An Egyptian Mummified Crocodile from the Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra National Preserve (Ukraine): Archaeological and Morphological Considerations

Review of the Scientific Activity of the Department of Archaeology (2025)
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description: -
subject: The Cronicle of Scientific Life
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subject: -
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creator: Albinas Kuncevičius
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 Authors https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
date: 2026-02-20
publication date: 2026-02-20
starting page: 262
ending page: 268

The 14th c. Inhabitants of the Outskirts of Curvum Castrum: Paleoenvironment and Diet Based on Archaeobotanical Research Data from Kosciuškos Street 1
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description: <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; display: inline !important; float: none;">This article aims to present the archaeobotanical material collected during archaeological excavation carried out in 2024 at Kosciuškos Street 1, Vilnius City, covering the 14th century settlement phase. The excavation uncovered wooden structures, among which, a 14th century wooden building with a masonry stove was identified (this was a fully exposed room measuring 11.52 m² that contained a masonry stove of 1.6 × 1.3 m). The abundance and diversity of plant remains revealed aspects of the diet of Vilnius inhabitants who settled at the outskirts of the Curved Castle (<em style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;">Curvum castrum<span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; display: inline !important…
subject: Articles
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subject: archaeobotanical research
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subject: wetland environment
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subject: bioarchaeology
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subject: Curvum Castrum
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subject: Vilnius
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creator: Laura Banionytė
creator: Rūta Karaliūtė
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 Authors https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
date: 2025-12-22
publication date: 2025-12-22
starting page: 140
ending page: 162
doi: 10.15388/ArchLit.2025.26.6

Research Conducted at the Site of T. Kosciuškos Street 1, Vilnius
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description: <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; display: inline !important; float: none;">In the spring and summer of 2024, excavations carried out at the site located at 1 T. Kosciuškos Street in Vilnius revealed cultural layers dating from the late 13th to the 20th century, as well as remains of wooden structures dating back to the 13th–14th centuries. These findings provided new insights into the development of this part of Vilnius during the early stages of the city’s formation. Equally intriguing is the history of the site from the 17th to the 18th century, which is associated first with a manor estate that once stood there and, from the 19th century onwards, with the operation of a detention facility on the site. This article analyses the archaeological and historical contexts of these discoveries, presents the research results, and offers interpretations based on the collected data.
subject: Articles
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subject: Medieval Vilnius
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subject: Crooked castle
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subject: wooden structures
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subject: archaeology
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subject: detention facilities
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creator: Atas Žvirblys
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 Authors https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
date: 2025-12-22
publication date: 2025-12-22
starting page: 116
ending page: 139
doi: 10.15388/ArchLit.2025.26.5

Topography of Legend: Where did Grand Duke Gediminas Hunt the Tauras?
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description: <span lang="en-GB" style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;">This publication examines the topography of the founding legend of Vilnius in order to address the question of where the legendary Tauras Hill may have been located – which is the place where, according to 16<span lang="en-GB" style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;">th<span lang="en-GB" style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;">-century narrative chronicles, Grand Duke Gediminas of Lithuania hunted a wild aurochs (lt. <em lang="en-GB" style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px…
subject: Articles
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subject: Tauras Hill
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subject: Vilnius founding legend
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subject: Iron Wolf
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subject: aurochs (tauras)
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subject: Grand Duke Gediminas of Lithuania
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creator: Darius Kontrimas
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 Authors https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
date: 2025-12-22
publication date: 2025-12-22
starting page: 68
ending page: 115
doi: 10.15388/ArchLit.2025.26.8

Archaeological Research on the Shores of Valiūniškės Paleolake (Slabada and Būda Sites, South Lithuania)
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description: <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; display: inline !important; float: none;">The article publishes the material of archaeological research of several Stone Age sites carried out on the shores of Valiūniškės paleolake. The publication discusses the hydrological and morphological features of small water bodies, as well as the natural conditions necessary for the settlement of Stone Age people. The article analyses the geomorphology of this area and its development in the late Ice Age and Holocene, describes in detail the stratigraphy of the studied sites and the various erosive processes that intensively influenced it. Although, during the research, the finds were not found in abundance, but these are objects that existed for a short period of time, characterized by the homogeneity of the complex of finds. Based on the information accumulated during the research and the typological-technological criteria of the flint inventory and the dates of radiocarbon, the settlements date back to the end of the Final Palaeolithic (late Swiderian tradition, 10<span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;">th<span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; …
subject: Articles
  topic: section
subject: archaeological investigations
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subject: archaeological site
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subject: lithic
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subject: Stone Age
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subject: geomorphology
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subject: radiocarbon dating
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creator: Egidijus Šatavičius
creator: Liudvikas Vasiliauskas
creator: Zenonas Baubonis
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 Authors https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
date: 2025-12-22
publication date: 2025-12-22
starting page: 12
ending page: 41
doi: 10.15388/ArchLit.2025.26.4

Preface
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description: -
subject: Front Matter
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subject: -
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creator: Albinas Kuncevičius
creator: Agnė Žilinskaitė
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 Authors https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
date: 2026-02-20
publication date: 2026-02-20
starting page: 10
ending page: 11

Pratarmė
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description: -
subject: Front Matter
  topic: section
subject: -
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creator: Albinas Kuncevičius
creator: Agnė Žilinskaitė
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 Authors https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
date: 2026-02-20
publication date: 2026-02-20
starting page: 8
ending page: 9

Editorial Board and Table of Contents
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description: -
subject: Front Matter
  topic: section
subject: -
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creator: Albinas Kuncevičius
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 Authors https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
date: 2026-02-20
publication date: 2026-02-20
starting page: 1
ending page: 7

New Insights into Iron Age Ceramic Production Technology Based on Macroscopic, Petrographic and Chemical Data
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description: <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; display: inline !important; float: none;">This article explores the technological aspects of the Iron Age pottery production in Lithuania and what these aspects can reveal about the society of the period. In order to reveal new insights into the subject, ceramic petrography and chemical analysis via pXRF were employed alongside visual examination of the surface of over 500 ceramic sherds from across Lithuania. Each step of ceramic production was reconstructed and interpreted according to the <em style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;">Chaîne opératoire <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; display: inline !important; float: none;">approach, to the extent the material allowed. The results indicate that the most observable change …
subject: Articles
  topic: section
subject: Iron Age
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subject: pottery
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subject: pottery production
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subject: ceramic petrography
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subject: pXRF
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subject: Chaîne opératoire
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creator: Mantas Valančius
rights: Copyright (c) 2026 Mantas Valančius https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
date: 2025-12-22
publication date: 2025-12-22
starting page: 183
ending page: 210
doi: 10.15388/ArchLit.2025.26.7

An Egyptian Mummified Crocodile from the Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra National Preserve (Ukraine): Archaeological and Morphological Considerations
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description: <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; display: inline !important; float: none;">This study presents the first examination of an Egyptian mummified crocodile from the collection of the Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra National Preserve (Ukraine). Archival research established that the specimen was donated to the Archaeological Museum at St. Volodymyr’s University in 1860 by Dr. Joseph Shkuratovsky who likely obtained it in Upper Egypt in the mid-19<span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;">th<span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; display: inline !important; float: none;"> century. The mummy had never been studied by Egyptologists, bio-archaeologists, or zoologists. Radiocarbon dating and chemical analysis of embalming substances were conducted using standard…
subject: Articles
  topic: section
subject: crocodile mummy
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subject: Egypt
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subject: Ptolemaic Period
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subject: species identification
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subject: morphometry
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subject: embalming practices
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creator: Yevheniia Yanish
creator: Dario Piombino-Mascali
creator: Wilfried Rosendahl
creator: Shidong Chen
creator: Ester Oras
creator: Mykola Tarasenko
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 Yevheniia Yanish | Dario Piombino-Mascali | Wilfried Rosendahl | Shidong Chen | Ester Oras | Mykola Tarasenko https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
date: 2025-12-22
publication date: 2025-12-22
starting page: 246
ending page: 261
doi: 10.15388/ArchLit.2025.26.10