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