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| | THE CULTURAL AND ETHNIC SITUATION IN LATVIA DURING THE EARLY AND MIDDLE IRON AGE (1st - 8th Century AD) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03) |
 | | The eastern burial mounds are found in Augšzeme (the Aizkraukle and Jēkabpils districts) and in southeastern Vidzeme, mostly in the Aiviekste basin. |
 | | People were buried with miniature clay vessels (and, beginning in the 8th or 9th century, other miniature objects such as hoes, scythes, knives, weaving boards, et al), drinking horns, as well as other objects in containers made of birch bark. |
 | | In the graves of men, archaeologists have found socketed axes, scythes which had grown longer, the tips of spears, battle knives, spurs and harness metals. |
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