Žemės ūkio raida ir archeobotaniniai tyrinėjimai Lietuvoje

In Lithuania, research on the development of agriculture in early prehistory has been based mostly on palynological and indirect (incidentally noticed seeds, existing of agricultural tools) data so far. This article describes the benefit and possibilities of systematic archaeological macrobotanical research, and methods and results of the first systematic research conducted in a series of Kretuonas settlements of the Neolithic Era and the Early Bronze Age in northeastern Lithuania, and in Turlojiškė settlement of the Early Bronze Age in southwestern Lithuania (see table la and table lb, pic.1). A high-resolution stratigraphic analysis of macrobotanical remains together with archaeological and zooarchaeological findings in Turlojiškė settlement (see table 2 and pic.2) illustrate the course of animal domestication and plant cultivation in the Early Bronze Age in this monument

Spectres haunting : postcommunism and postcolonialism

In this essay, I attempt to take stock of recent suggestions that the literatures and cultures of the former Soviet bloc countries be considered “postcolonial”. I begin by asking what is intended by this suggestion. While it is necessary to recognize that the Russian imperium and the Soviet order that succeeded it were clearly colonial in character, there are some good reasons to wonder whether the assimilation of “post-Soviet” criticism to “the postcolonial” is a good idea. Concerning postcolonial studies itself, I argue that the enterprise has hitherto been animated by a species of third worldism that has retarded understanding of the contemporary world-system; in particular, the postcolonialist idea of “the west” as the super-agent of domination in the modern global order strikes me as being deeply misconceived. On the “post-Soviet” side of the ledger, I worry both about a premature (if understandable) anti-Marxism and a tendency to insist precisely on that narrative of “the west” that postcolonial studies, in its indispensable critique of Eurocentrism, has managed to dislodge