The archaeology research group consists of scholars from the Department of Archaeology at the University of Tartu, whose research spans all stages of Estonia\u2019s settlement history\u2014from the Stone Age to the modern era\u2014and, especially for earlier periods, extends well beyond Estonia\u2019s borders. The group\u2019s aim is to clarify the formation of the Estonian people and population through interdisciplinary collaboration, drawing on archaeological source material. This material is analyzed in the context of landscape geography and natural conditions. A central research question is the formation of Estonia\u2019s prehistoric counties, as well as the reflection of regional characteristics, identities, and their dynamics in archaeological evidence.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The primary higher-level regional identity units within Estonia at the end of prehistory were the prehistoric counties\u2014referred to as \u201clands\u201d or \u201cprovinces\u201d in Henry of Latvia\u2019s chronicle. Since these identities were clearly perceptible to outside observers in the early 13th century\u2014otherwise they would not be so distinctly reflected in written sources\u2014their existence and differences should also be evident in the archaeological record.<\/p>\n\n\n
University of Tartu, Faculty of Arts and Humanities, Institute of History and Archaeology, Professor of Archaeology, Head of the Archaeology Research Group<\/p>\n\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n\n\n\n
Valter Lang<\/strong>, University of Tartu<\/p>\n\n\n\n Aivar Kriiska<\/strong>, University of Tartu<\/p>\n\n\n\n Riina Rammo<\/strong>, University of Tartu<\/p>\n\n\n\n Ragnar Saage<\/strong>, University of Tartu<\/p>\n\n\n\n Pikne Kama<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Martin Malve<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Linda Vilumets<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Maris Niinesalu-Moon<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Maria Smirnova<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The archaeology research group consists of scholars from the Department of Archaeology at the University of Tartu, whose research spans all stages of Estonia\u2019s settlement history\u2014from the Stone Age to the modern era\u2014and, especially for earlier periods, extends well beyond …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":745,"featured_media":237,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1127","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sisu.ut.ee\/eestijuured\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1127","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sisu.ut.ee\/eestijuured\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sisu.ut.ee\/eestijuured\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sisu.ut.ee\/eestijuured\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/745"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sisu.ut.ee\/eestijuured\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1127"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sisu.ut.ee\/eestijuured\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1127\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1134,"href":"https:\/\/sisu.ut.ee\/eestijuured\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1127\/revisions\/1134"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sisu.ut.ee\/eestijuured\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/237"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sisu.ut.ee\/eestijuured\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1127"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}