| Abstract [eng] |
The wooden artifacts, found in Vilnius Lower castle during the archeological excavations, are analyzed in this doctoral dissertation. Wooden artifacts, whose chronology covers 13th – 17th centuries, are analyzed by creating their typology, specifying chronology, determining wooden artifacts’ and their manufacture similarities and differences in European context, assessing the importance of their daily usage in medieval and later times. The analysis of wooden artifacts by their functionality composes the main part of this task (work tools and devices, furniture, arms; dishes and cutlery, the details of hygiene and beauty, the attributes of spiritual life; the artifacts of unidentified purpose). The typology, chronology and analogies of wooden artifacts is discussed. In order properly to analyze the particularities of this group artifacts, the historical sources were reviewed, iron artifacts, found in Vilnius Lower castle and attributed to woodworking, checked and compared, the results of founded wooden artifacts’ type determination estimated. In this work the technologies of wooden artifacts production are presented and shown how part of them was marked. Founded artifacts were analyzed not only as items of certain functions, but also as indicators of crafts, economic, social, cultural, even religious processes. |
