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Ekritten or Nr. 17 of Povarovka, appear within the boarder of old Prus-
sian cremation cemeteries under the strong influence of foreign burial
traditions. Already Christian inhumations and so named “chamber
graves” of the 11 th -13 th centuries were known on Poland’s territory.
Although inhumation graves hade become the main form of burial rite
in Prussia only by the end of the 13 th century. This passage is very im-
portant to show the difference between Prussian and Curonian cultural
realities on the boarder of the 12 th -13 th centuries.
III. Trading centers and routes in the territory of Prussians and
Curonians in the 11 th –13 th centuries
III.1. Curonian Spit, as possible area for direct cultural transaction
of Prussian and Curonian cultures
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All investigated archaeological monuments are located in the
Southern part of Curonian Spit and dated by the 13 th -15 th centuries in
case of Stangenwalde cemetery and by the 12/13 th -14 th centuries for
Korallen-Berg settlement. Materials of Stangenwalde inhumation
graves have a wide range of parallels and analogies with Prussian
cemeteries of the Teutonic Order period as Alt-Wehlau, Gerdauen-
Kinderhof, Mitino, Równina Dolna etc. Some archaic artefacts as
penannular brooch with connected star-shaped terminals and also spiral
bracelet and drinking horn mount of Curonian types could appear here
far behind the date of their production, from areas of Sambia and to-
day’s Klaipeda district respectively. Perhaps, it is the same case for