Lecture

Lecture
(Un)Seen Lithuanian Hillforts: Life, Battles, and Death

7 April 2020, 7 pm
Gallery AMZ
free admission

Hillforts are an important part of Lithuanian history. They yield significant archaeological evidence about the life of the Balts and their predecessors. Hillforts appeared on the Baltic territory between the 2nd and the 1st millennium BC and soon became the most important objects of the social and cultural landscape: settlements, cemeteries, sacred places and roads were located in their close vicinity. They were used until the end of wars with the Teutonic Order in the 15th century. In these fortified hills people lived, fought, hid treasures and, in rare cases, buried the deceased. Hillforts are one of the most visible archaeological monuments, yet at the same time contain many unseen secrets.

Lecturer: Dr. Šarūnė Valotkienė, National Museum of Lithuania