Project participants expect that the experience and the new discoveries of the two years will open new and broad opportunities for getting to know the lifestyle of communities that used to live on the Curonian Spit, says Gytis Piličiauskas, director of the Archeological Division of the Institute of Lithuanian History that headed the project.
"[The settlement of] Neringa is very unique - the culture of its residents and business was very different from the continental part of Lithuania, as people there were involved in fishing and hunting," Piličiauskas told BNS.
2012 06 25
Archeologists discover valuable Stone and Bronze Age sites in Curonian Spit
After a two-year pilot project on the Curonian Spit in Lithuania, archeologists say they have discovered valuable findings from the Stone Age and suspect having found a few Bronze Age archeological sites.
Piece of pottery from the Curonian Spit / Archeologija.eu nuotr.
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