By using our site, you agree to our collection of information through the use of cookies. To learn more, view our Privacy Policy. To browse Academia. Plant remains, discovered using archaeological methods, are preserved in macroscopic or microscopic form.
Microscopic forms include: pollen grains, spores of bryophytes and ferns , phytoliths 'silica formations in plant cells, also silica-saturated plant remains' , diatoms 'clusters of uni Plants in funeral ceremonies in Poland and Europe north of the Alps-an introduction 1.
Plants in funeral ceremonies in Poland and Europe north of the Alps-an introduction. Macroscopic plant remains uncovered in and later seasons will be analysed with the final study of the results of the excavations. This article investigates tinned bronze ornaments found in two graves of the Lazdininkai-Kalnalaukis cemetery dated to the end of the 2nd century to the first quarter of the 3rd century AD from the perspective of archaeological materials, intercultural contacts, 14C AMS dating, and chemical-physical and biological research.
These ornaments-a wheel-shaped pendant and a bead-were originally parts of fashionable necklaces. However, these ornaments went into the graves as spinning tools. The wheel-shaped pendant from grave 8 contains the first ever found, or at least officially recorded, use in Lithuania of an aquatic plant for a spinning tool bobbin. The piece of possible linden tree wood was used to compose the spinning tool bobbin found in grave 68 These spinning tools are the first to have appeared in Lithuanian archaeological material from as early as the end of the 2nd century to the first quarter of the 3rd century.
In addition, both spinning tools are unique in the Lithuanian archaeological record so far in that the copper alloy spindle whorls were used to compose both working tools. The closest analogues for the wheel-shaped pendant are known from the Wielbark culture and this example should be considered as an import from that cultural area. Copper alloy beads and various local derivatives, however, are numerous in the range of the Baltic cultures area.
