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ILLUSTRATIONS

PLATES

1. Ancient Prussians: bronze relief
2. Corded and pinched pottery from Finland
3. Grave goods of Battle-Axe culture
4, 5. Bronze pin and axe
6. Bronze flanged axe
7. Bronze axe with semicircular edge
8. Late Bronze Age socketed axe
9. Late Bronze Age spearhead
10. Urn with necklace design
11. Face-urn with amber bead ear-rings
12. Face on an urn from Poland
13. Urn with engraved horse. Stela with sun symbol
14, 15. Urn with symbolic scene
16. Sheepskin coat from Masuria
17. Hill-fort, southern Lithuania
18. Man’s grave goods, western Lithuania
19. Necklaces from central and eastern Lithuania
20. Fretworked belt separator
21. Fretworked fibula
22. Woman’s grave goods, western Lithuania
23. Woman’s grave goods from double grave
24. Woman’s grave goods from double grave
25. Double grave, Kaunas, Lithuania
26. Elk in silver plated bronze
27, 28. Silver-plated bronze fibulae
29. Gold-plated plaques
30. Silver-plated plaque
31. Details of horse’s head gear

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32. Bronze fibula with enamel incrustation
33. Bronze fibula with enamel inlay
34. Pendants with enamel inlay
35, 36. Bronze pendants with enamel incrustation
37, 38. Fibulae with enamel inlay
39, 40. Fibulae with enamel inlay
41. Bronze bracelet with enamel inlay
42. Bronze bracelets with enamel inlay
43. Enameled ornaments from central Russia
44. Silver fibula and enameled plaque
45. Chest ornament from woman’s grave
46. Chest ornament
47. Silver bow-fibula
48. Silver bracelet
49. Silver necklace
50. Silver neck-ring
51. Snake-headed silver fibula
52-54. Axe, spearhead and shield umbo
55. Man’s grave goods, western Lithuania
56. Silver-coated bronze pendant and bronze pin
57. Woman’s grave goods, central Lithuania
58. Woman’s chest ornament
59. Bronze necklace
60. Silver neck-ring
61. Bronze horseshoe fibula
62. Horseshoe fibula
63. Massive bronze bracelet
64. Man’s bracelet
65. Parts of leather belts. Belt with bronze plates

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67. Instruments for girdle-twisting
68, 69. Swords of Viking type
70. Horse’s bridle
71, 72. Details of horses’ graves
73, 74. Silver-plated iron bridle
75, 76. Silver-plated iron stirrup
77, 78. Hill fort, western Lithuania
79. Roof poles topped with sun and moon symbols


FIGURES

1. Map: Baltic tribes and provinces c. A.D. 1200, p. 23
2. Map: area of the Baltic river names, pp. 30-31
3. Map: expansion of Kurgan culture, p. 39
4. Map: distribution of physical types, p. 47
5. Proto-Baltic variant of Corded pottery, p. 50
6. Reconstruction and plan of house, p. 51
7. Stratified barrow, Samland, p. 53
8. Map: principal amber routes, p. 58
9. Snake-headed stone hoe, p. 60
10. Map: distribution of Baltic culture in Bronze Age, p. 63
11. Map: distribution of stone hoes and bronze artifacts, p. 64
12. Classical Baltic Late Bronze Age barrow, p. 67
13. Ornaments from Samland, p. 70
14. Ornaments from Samland, p. 71
15. Barrow in western Lithuania, p. 72
16. Temple ornaments and pendants, p. 73
17. House-urn, p. 74
18. Face-urns, p. 75
19. Necklace from Face-urn period, p. 76
20. Solar motifs on face-urn lads, p. 77
21. Engravings on face-urns, p. 78

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22. Bone comb, p. 80
23. Plan of fortified village, northern Poland (ancient Prussia), p. 81
24. Map: Baltic Early Iron Age groups, p. 83
25. Pot-covered urn grave, p. 84
26. Urns in stone cists, p. 85
27. Barrow containing large stone cist, p. 87
28. Geometrically decorated Prussian urns, p. 88
29. Urns from Samland, p. 89
30. Early Bronze Age Fat’janovo pot, p. 93
31. Late Bronze Age and Iron Age pots, p. 96
32. Plans of houses, eastern Baltic hill-fort village, p. 104
33. Eastern Baltic Early Iron Age hill-fort, p. 105
34. Pins from Early Iron Age hill-fort, p. 106
35. Weapons and utensils from Eastern Baltic fortified villages, p. 107
36. Map: Baltic lands in Roman period, pp. 110-11
37. Warrior’s grave in tree-trunk coffin, p. 112
38. Sudovian farmer’s grave, p. 115
39. Iron scythe from Latvia, p. 116
40. Female head and neck ornaments, p. 127
41. Bronze fibulae with cast pin, p. 128
42. Bronze fibula with chains, p. 129
43. Chest ornaments, p. 130
44. Fretworked belt parts, p. 131
45. Neck-ring with pendants, p. 133
46. Bronze fibula shaped to resemble animal, p. 135
47. Bronze fibula with silver-plated foot, p. 146
48. Star and sun motifs on fibulae, p. 146
49. Owl-head fibula, p. 147
50. Map: The Balts after the Slavic expansion, p. 151

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51. Silver-plated crossbow fibula, p. 156
52. Bronze necklace with pendants, p. 160
53. Ornamented bracelets, p. 161
54. Iron knife in bronze scabbard, p. 162
55. Gold-plated ornament on horse bridle, p. 165
56. Plan of Jersika hill-fort, p. 170
57. Map: Lithuanian empire, fourteenth-fifteenth centuries A.D., pp. 174-5
58. Plan of Baltic sanctuary with temple, p. 181