Burials with horses and equestrian equipment on the Lithuanian and Latvian littorals and hinterlands (from the fifth to the eighth centuries)
In the fifth to the eighth centuries, graves of well-armed men and their riding horses –or the ritual parts of horses– were spread throughout almost the entire mainland part of Lithuania and Latvia, or in the territory between the Nemunas and Daugava / Western Dvina Rivers. This was the northernmost...
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ftklaipedauniv:oai:ku.lt:elaba:2479777 2023-07-30T04:03:13+02:00 Burials with horses and equestrian equipment on the Lithuanian and Latvian littorals and hinterlands (from the fifth to the eighth centuries) V-VIII amžiaus kapai su žirgais ir žirgų apranga Lietuvos ir Latvijos pajūryje bei krašto gilumoje Bliujienė, Audronė Butkus, Donatas 2009 application/pdf https://vb.ku.lt/KU:ELABAPDB2479777&prefLang=en_US lit eng lit eng https://vb.ku.lt/object/elaba:2479777/2479777.pdf https://vb.ku.lt/KU:ELABAPDB2479777&prefLang=en_US info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess Archaeologia Baltica: The horse and man in European antiquity (worldview, burial rites, and military and everyday life), Klaipėda : Klaipėdos universiteto leidykla, 2009, vol. 11, p. 149-163 ISSN 1392-5520 eISSN 2351-6534 warriors ritual or sacrificial horse parts equestrian equipment migration period Lithuania Latvia info:eu-repo/semantics/article 2009 ftklaipedauniv 2023-07-12T23:22:43Z In the fifth to the eighth centuries, graves of well-armed men and their riding horses –or the ritual parts of horses– were spread throughout almost the entire mainland part of Lithuania and Latvia, or in the territory between the Nemunas and Daugava / Western Dvina Rivers. This was the northernmost part of Europe in which the custom had spread in the fifth to the eighth centuries. While the horsemen’s and horses’ burial customs varied in separate regions of the defined area, still everywhere the horseman and horse were interred in one grave pit, with the horse almost always to the person’s left. In their journey to the Afterlife, however, the bond between horseman and horse began to vary in the communities that lived in the more peripheral regions. The variety of burial customs was associated with differences in the communities’ social structure; these differences affected interment traditions and formed different burial rites. The custom that existed in the Roman Period on the littorals of Lithuania and Latvia to bury ritual horse parts (the head or head and legs) and spurs with armed men disappeared; here only bridle bits symbolized the horse in armed men’s graves in the fifth to the eighth centuries. Warriors’ graves with equestrian equipment spread throughout the entire region between the Nemunas and Daugava in the fifth to eighth centuries. With the change in burial customs (with the spread of cremation), and, apparently, in worldview, riding horse burials appeared that no longer could be associated with the concrete burials of people. Article in Journal/Newspaper dvina KU VL (Klaipėdos universitetas Virtual Library) |
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In the fifth to the eighth centuries, graves of well-armed men and their riding horses –or the ritual parts of horses– were spread throughout almost the entire mainland part of Lithuania and Latvia, or in the territory between the Nemunas and Daugava / Western Dvina Rivers. This was the northernmost part of Europe in which the custom had spread in the fifth to the eighth centuries. While the horsemen’s and horses’ burial customs varied in separate regions of the defined area, still everywhere the horseman and horse were interred in one grave pit, with the horse almost always to the person’s left. In their journey to the Afterlife, however, the bond between horseman and horse began to vary in the communities that lived in the more peripheral regions. The variety of burial customs was associated with differences in the communities’ social structure; these differences affected interment traditions and formed different burial rites. The custom that existed in the Roman Period on the littorals of Lithuania and Latvia to bury ritual horse parts (the head or head and legs) and spurs with armed men disappeared; here only bridle bits symbolized the horse in armed men’s graves in the fifth to the eighth centuries. Warriors’ graves with equestrian equipment spread throughout the entire region between the Nemunas and Daugava in the fifth to eighth centuries. With the change in burial customs (with the spread of cremation), and, apparently, in worldview, riding horse burials appeared that no longer could be associated with the concrete burials of people. |
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Burials with horses and equestrian equipment on the Lithuanian and Latvian littorals and hinterlands (from the fifth to the eighth centuries) |
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Burials with horses and equestrian equipment on the Lithuanian and Latvian littorals and hinterlands (from the fifth to the eighth centuries) |
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Burials with horses and equestrian equipment on the Lithuanian and Latvian littorals and hinterlands (from the fifth to the eighth centuries) |
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Burials with horses and equestrian equipment on the Lithuanian and Latvian littorals and hinterlands (from the fifth to the eighth centuries) |
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Burials with horses and equestrian equipment on the Lithuanian and Latvian littorals and hinterlands (from the fifth to the eighth centuries) |
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burials with horses and equestrian equipment on the lithuanian and latvian littorals and hinterlands (from the fifth to the eighth centuries) |
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Archaeologia Baltica: The horse and man in European antiquity (worldview, burial rites, and military and everyday life), Klaipėda : Klaipėdos universiteto leidykla, 2009, vol. 11, p. 149-163 ISSN 1392-5520 eISSN 2351-6534 |
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