Practices of Wealth Depositing in the 1st-9th Century AD Eastern Baltic

• Main Author: Oras, Ester (auth)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: Leiden Sidestone Press 2015
• Subjects: Medieval European archaeology; archaeology; early middle ages; iron age; votive deposition; ritual practices
• Online Access: OAPEN Library: download the publication; OAPEN Library: description of the publication

This PhD thesis discusses the practices of wealth depositing in the 1st-9th century AD eastern Baltic (Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania). Wealth deposits are one or more valued object/s that is/are hidden deliberately as an intended separate deposition in a selected place in a specific, distinguishable ma...