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Landscape histories and place memory

Vanished-settlement timelines, marks on stones, wetland routes and water management.

Lost settlement histories

The Disappearance of Karvaičiai: A Village Timeline

Karvaičiai from its 1509 written mention to the departure of its last residents in 1797: documented dates, the dune and the memory of a village.

Lost settlement histories

A timeline of Nagliai: early references, a shifting settlement, departures from 1836 and conflicting accounts of its disappearance in 1846–1854.

Lost settlement histories

Kampiškės from its 1744 record to a memorial chapel: relocation, the dismantling of its church and the community connection with Šlienava.

Lost settlement histories

School records and traces of earlier villages explain Rumšiškės relocation: the old site, the new town from 1959 and the school opening in 1960.

Reading the landscape

A guide to separating a stone’s visible shape, proposed use, recorded story and original location, using Lithuanian museum collections.

Reading the landscape

How to read evidence for Lithuanian wetland roads: Sietuva’s recording dates, the Aukštumala settlement route and the limits of modern trails.

Reading the landscape

How Lithuania’s lagoon polders work: dykes, drainage and pumps, summer and winter protection, and Uostadvaris’s documented 1904–1907 development.