R. Banytė-Rovell | A. Čivilytė | L. Gaižauskas | L. Kurila | L. Muradian | G. Piličiauskas | V. Podėnas | A. Simniškytė-Strimaitienė | R. Vengalis | E. Pranckėnaitė |

K. A. Bojarskaitė | V. Micelicaitė | I. Vengalė

Agnė Čivilytė, PhD Humanities Senior Researcher

Biographical data:

Born on May 20, 1972, in Vilnius. In 1990, she graduated from Vilnius Secondary School No. 23. In 1994, she completed undergraduate studies in archaeology at the Faculty of History of Vilnius University. From 1994 to 1997, she studied at the University of Heidelberg (Germany), specializing in European prehistory, Near Eastern archaeology, and Classical archaeology. She graduated with a master’s degree. Master’s thesis topic was “Jungbronzezeitliche Vollgriffschwerter (Periode V) in neuen Bundesländern und Polen” (Late Bronze Age swords in Eastern Germany and Poland). From 1998 to 2003, she pursued doctoral studies at the University of Heidelberg. In 2003, defended her dissertation “Bronzezeitliche Waffendeponierung im nördlichen Mitteleuropa: Ein Versuch der Deutung”(Deposition of Bronze Age weapons in northern Central Europe: an interpretive study) (supervisor Prof. Joseph Maran). Since January 2004, she has been working at the Archaeology Department of the Lithuanian Institute of History. For more than 20 years, she has worked in the field of research on prehistoric metallurgy in Europe. Funded by prestigious foreign foundations, she led international archaeological projects. One of her research projects was the first in Lithuania to win an EU grant competition (European Research Council Starting Grant/General Grant). She is also an associate professor in the Department of Anthropology at the University at Buffalo (New York State, USA) and a professor at Klaipėda University. Teaching is her scientific engine, and teamwork—mentoring the new generation of scholars (supervising dissertations and postdoctoral studies)—inspires new ideas and the emergence of projects. From 2019 to 2024, she was the editor-in-chief of Lithuania’s first professional archaeological journal “Lietuvos archeologija”. Since 1991, she has actively participated in various archaeological expeditions in Lithuania, and in 2016–2018 had the opportunity to lead them herself. During her studies in Germany, she had the chance to excavate famous archaeological sites such as Göbekli Tepe (Turkey) and Tiryns (Greece). She also took part in an expedition in Georgia. She is an internationally active scholar: organize academic events, participate in conferences and congresses, she is a member of the European Association of Archaeologists (EAA) and the Society for American Archaeology (SAA). A. Čivilytė says, that for her, archaeology is above all a science about the human being—as an individual initiator of creativity, an inventor, and an active member of the community—who leaves traces that we study, attempting to understand the community’s actions, ways of life, mindsets, and behaviors.

Main research areas:

Bronze Age research, archaeometallurgy, social archaeology, cultural processes and formations; deposition, communication of prehistoric communities, environmental studies, sustainability, materials recycling, history of archaeology.

Key publications:

Books:

1. Čivilytė, A., 2014. Žmogus ir metalas priešistorėje: žvilgančios bronzos trauka. Vilnius: Diemedis. ISBN 978-9986-23-188-2.
2. Čivilytė, A., 2009. Wahl der Waffen. Studien zur Deutung der bronzezeitlichen Waffendeponierung im nördlichen Mitteleuropa/Selection of Weapons. Interpretative study on the deposition of weapons in Northern Central Europe. Universitätsforschungen zur prähistorischen Archäologie 167, Bonn. ISBN 3-7749-3619-6.

Articles:

1. Čivilytė, A., Karankola, K., Kramer, A., 2025. From antiquity to modern hygiene: the archaeological and medicinal legacy of lavender as a promising antimicrobial agent. GMS Hygiene Infection Control, vol. 20, 1-8. DOI:10.3205/dgkh000550.

2. Čivilytė, A., Žižiūnas, T., Wirth, S.,  Eriksson, T., 2024. New insights into the production and exchange of Late Bronze Age KAM axes: application of 3D view technologies. Lietuvos archeologija, 48, 69–103. DOI: 10.33918/25386514-050005.

3. Minkevičius, K., Piličiauskienė, G., Podėnas, V., Micelicaitė, V., Kontrimas, D., Šapolaitė, J., Ežerinskis, Ž., Garbaras, A., Čivilytė, A., Luik, H., Tamulynas, L., 2023. New insights into the subsistence economy of the Late Bronze Age (1100–400 cal BC) communities in the southeastern Baltic. Archaeologia Baltica, 30, 58–79.
4. Čivilytė, A., Podėnas, V., Minkevičius, K., Luik, H., 2023. New Insights on Bronze Age Metallurgy in the Eastern Baltic Region: Archeometallurgical Investigations Based on EDXRF and Lead-Isotope. Archaeology and Anthropology Open Access 4, 627–639. DOI: 10.31031/AAOA.2023.04.000608.
5. Podėnas, V., Garbaras, A., Micelicaitė, V., Minkevičius, K., Šapolaitė, J., Ežerinskis, Ž., Čivilytė, A., 2023. Diet of the fortified settlement communities in Lithuania from 1000 cal. BC to 200 cal. AD. Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports 51. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jasrep.2023.104184.
6. Čivilytė, A., Podėnas, V., Minkevičius, K., Luik, H., 2022. Vėlyvojo bronzos amžiaus ekonomika Rytų Baltijos regione: naujo modelio link. Lietuvos archeologija, 48, 57–99. DOI: https://doi.org/10.33918/25386514-048003
7. Luik, H., Piličiauskienė, G., Podėnas, V., Micelicaitė, V., Minkevičius, K., Čivilytė, A., 2022. Animal Bones, Bone Artefacts and Bone Working at Late Bronze Age Fortified Settlements in North-Eastern Lithuania: Sokiškiai, Mineikiškės and Garniai I. Archaeologia Lituana 23, 237–268. DOI: https://doi.org/10.15388/ArchLit.2022.23.14.
8. Čivilytė, A., 2022. Peripheral or non-peripheral? The “world view” of the Bronze Age people in the eastern Baltic. In: Hofmann, D., Nikulka, F., Schumann, R., eds. The Baltic in the Bronze Age. Regional patterns, interactions and boundaries. Leiden: Sidestone Press, 309-324.
9. Podėnas, V., Minkevičius, K., Micelicaitė, V., Čivilytė, A., 2022. Fortify to develop contacts? A review of Late Bronze Age defensive systems in the East Baltic and new data from Mineikiškės fortified settlement In: V. Vaitkevičius, V., Bliujienė, A., sud. Atrasti praeitį. Išsaugoti ateičiai. Straipsniai, skirti Gintauto Zabielos 60-mečiui (=Discovering the Past. Preserving for the Future. Essays on the Occasion of Gintautas Zabiela's 60th Birthday). Klaipėda: Klaipėdos universiteto leidykla, 218–240.
10. Čivilytė, A., Czebreszuk, J., 2021. Professor Maria Gimbutas' adventure with prehistoric amber and what results from it for us. Lietuvos archeologija, 47, 235-248.
11. Čivilytė, A., 2021. Marijos Gimbutienės asmenybės spalvos. In: ed. Merkytė, I. Europos ištakos: deivės ir kariai (parodos katalogas), Vilnius: Lietuvos nacionalinis muziejus, 17-31. 
12. Podėnas, V., Čivilytė, A., 2019. Bronze Casting and Communication in the Southeastern Baltic Bronze Age. Lietuvos Archeologija, 45, 169-198.
13. Malonaitis, A., Čivilytė, A., 2019. Iš kaplių į kirvius, iš kirvių į kaplius – apie antrinį geležinių kaplių ir kirvių panaudojimą. Lietuvos Archeologija, 45, 201-216.
14. Čivilytė, A., Duberow, W., Pernicka, E., Skvortzov K., 2017. The new Late Bronze Age hoard find from Kobbelbude (former Eastern Prussia, district Fischhausen) and the first results of its archaeometallurgical investigations. Archaeological and Anthropological Science, vol. 9, issue 5, 755-761.
15. Podėnas, V., Čivilytė, A., Bagdzevičienė, J., Luchtanas, A., 2016. Technologiniai ir diagnostiniai Narkūnų Didžiojo piliakalnio techninės keramikos tyrimai. Lietuvos archeologija, 42, 151-189.
16. Podėnas, V., Luchtanas, A., Čivilytė, A., 2016. Narkūnų piliakalnių ir papėdės gyvenvietės keramika: elgsenos atspindžiai. Lietuvos archeologija, 42, 191-241.
17. Čivilytė, A., 2016. How were amber artefacts produced and used during the Bronze Age in the east Baltic? Atti del 1° Convegno Internazionale sulla Viabilità Antica “Le Vie dell’Ambra. MILENNI. Studi di archeologia prehistorica, 7, 45-55.
18. Čivilytė, A., Duberow, E., Pernicka, E., 2015. His left foot: A new investigation of the oriental Bronze Age figurine from Šernai (Western Lithuania) and the question of its authenticity. Germania, 93, 97- 121.
19. Čivilytė, A., 2011. Problemy używania brązowych siekierek w archeologii krajów bałtyjskich: Najnowsze aspekty badań/The question of the using of the Bronze Axes in the researches of the Baltic countries. In: Srankiewicz, U., Wawrusiewicz, A., eds. Na rubieży kultur. Badania nad okresem neolitu i wczesną epoką brązu. Białystok, 371-383.
20. Čivilytė, A., Mödlinger, M., 2010. Bronzos amžiaus metalurgija: atkraštinių kirvių gamybos technologijos ir funkcijos klausimu. Lietuvos archeologija, 36, 121-151.
21. Čivilytė, A., 2009. Das Neolithikum in der Bronzezeit? Zur wirtschaftlichen Situation im Ostbaltikum. In: Bartelheim, M., Stäuble, H., eds. Die wirtschaftlichen Grundlagen der Bronzezeit. The economic foundation of European Bronze Age. Forschungen zur Archäometrie und Altertumswissenschaft, 4, 105-117.
22. Čivilytė, A., 2008. Bronze-und Eisenzeit – archäologische Fiktion oder Realität? Zur Bedeutung der Metalle in den ostbaltischen Gesellschaften. Langfristige Erscheinungen und Brüche von der Bronze-zur Eisenzeit. Beiträge zur Ur-und Frühgeschichte Mitteleuropas 51, 7-12.
23. Čivilytė, A., 2008. Einige Aspekte der bronzezeitlichen Metallurgie in den Baltischen Ländern. In: Mogielnicka-Urban, M., ed. Opera ex aere. Studia z epoki brązu i wczesnej epoki żelaza poświęcone Profesorowi Janowi Dąbrowskiemu, 151-158.
24. Čivilytė, A., 2007. Is a Warrior without a Weapon not a Warrior? Some Ideas about Bronze Age Warfare in the Eastern Baltic Region. Archaeologia Baltica, 8, 37-47.
25. Čivilytė, A., 2007. Archeologija tarp legendos ir tikrovės – grįžtant prie Šernų statulėlės (Klaipėdos raj.) problemos. Lietuvos archeologija, 31, 91-108.
26. Čivilytė, A., 2005. Zur Seltenheit metallener Waffen der Bronzezeit im Ostbaltikum. Archäologisches Korrespondenzblatt, Bd. 35, H. 3, 329-344.
27. Čivilytė, A., 2005. Jonas Puzinas – Heidelbergo universiteto daktaras: archeologijos profesionalumo link. Lietuvos archeologija, 29, 39-48.
28. Čivilytė, A., Kvizikevičius, L., Sarcevičius, S., 2005. Die Pfeifenwerkstatt des 17./18. Jahrhunderts in Vilnius. Knasterkopf. Fachzeitschrift für Tonpfeifen und historischen Tabakengenuss, Bd. 18, 63-66.
29. Čivilytė, A., Kvizikevičius, L., Sarcevičius, S., 2005. Pypkių gamybos centras Vilniuje. Kultūros paminklai, 12, 26-41.
30. Čivilytė, A., 2005. Zur Seltenheit metallener Waffen der Bronzezeit im Ostbaltikum. Archäologisches Korrespondenzblatt, Bd. 35, H. 3, 329–344. 
31. Čivilytė, A., 2005. Sueuropietinęs Lietuvos archeologiją. Profesoriaus Jono Puzino (1905–1978) šimtmečiui. Kultūros barai, 10, 69–70.
32. Čivilytė, A., 2004. Pagaminti tam, kad panaudotum? Keletas nežinomos bronzinės liejimo formos (Dovilai, Klaipėdos raj.) reikšmių. Lietuvos archeologija, 25, 221-232.
33. Čivilytė, A., 2004. Sulaužytas kalavijas: tarp karybos ir ritualo. Kultūros paminklai, 11, 2004, 96-113.
34. Čivilytė, A., 1998. Apie ikikeraminį neolitą Artimuosiuose Rytuose naujausių archeologinių tyrinėjimų Pietryčių Turkijoje duomenimis. Kultūros paminklai, 5, 18–27.
35. Čivilytė, A., 1997. Einige Bemerkungen zur Deponierung der Schwerter vom Typus Mörigen. In: Blajer, M., ed. Beiträge zur Deutung der bronzezeitlichen Hort- und Grabfunde in Mitteleuropa, Kraków, 229–254.
36. Čivilytė, A., 1995. Archeologijos mokslai Heidelberge. Baltų archeologija, 2(5), 20-24.

Contacts:

Email: agne.civilyte@istorija.lt

ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8793-7255

Academia.edu: https://independent.academia.edu/AgneCivilyte

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