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Āraiši lake dwelling site ( lv, Āraišu ezerpils) is a popular
EXARC
organization of open-air archaeological museums throughout Europe.
Āraišu ezerpils brīvdabas arheoloģiskais muzejs
The Association of Castles and Museums around the Baltic Sea
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Āraiši lake dwelling site ( lv, Āraišu ezerpils) is a popular tourist
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location with original and reconstructed remnants of Latvia
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n prehistory
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. It is a unique nationally important archaeological site
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: remains of the 9th–10th centuries Latgalian fortified settlement on the island of Āraiši lake.
Features
Today the lake dwelling is partially reconstructed and visitors can see rebuilt prehistoric Latgalian wooden buildings. During the excavations remains of 151 wooden buildings were discovered, with 3700 artifacts, and about a hundred thousand fragments of pottery were found. Using collected data,ethnographic
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parallels and replicas of ancient tools, today there are 14 reconstructed buildings of the first period of the construction of the fortified settlement.
Āraiši archaeological museum park is a member oEXARC
organization of open-air archaeological museums throughout Europe.
See also
*Latgalians
Latgalians (, nds, Letti, Lethi, modern ; variant translations also include Latgallians, Lettigalls or Lettigallians) were an ancient Baltic tribe.
They likely spoke the Latvian language, which probably became the ''lingua franca'' in present-d ...
References
External links
* * http://www.ltg.lv/araisu.ezerpilsĀraišu ezerpils brīvdabas arheoloģiskais muzejs
The Association of Castles and Museums around the Baltic Sea
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