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The island site of Duonkalnis (also Donkalnis) has yielded around 14 graves. The most remarkable of these is the double grave of the Duonkalnis "shaman". A young man was buried together with a woman in a grave sprinkled with red ochre beside a ritual hearth also sprinkled with ochre. His body was
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teeth strung across his head and wild boar tusks on each of his eyes. The body is now on display in the Archaeology section of the
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The island site of Spiginas have yielded four burials dating from 7780 BP to 4080
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burials including the Mesolithic grave of the "Duonkalnis shaman".
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Prehistoric Lithuania: Archaeological Exposition Guide
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The Roots of Peoples and Languages of Northern Eurasia
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Lake Biržulis is located in Lithuania
55°46′N 22°26′E / 55.767°N 22.433°E / 55.767; 22.433
Primary outflows
Virvytė
Basin
Lithuania
Islands
Telšiai District
Lithuania
Mesolithic
Neolithic
BP
ochre
elk
boar
moose
National Museum of Lithuania
Vilnius





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