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Couple of other relevant items to topic in question
1) I have started to get some doubts as I noticed post from user Huck Finn from biodiversity forum on the subject. Apparently there is specific type of axes that is called Malar axes and dated to bronze age. This is distribution of axes finds (their origin could have been Volga):
Notice big red circle in Lithuania? Could this be the origin in M2782+ in Balts? Maybe.
2) Found another interesting work on viking trade in Baltics.
http://www.academia.edu/485512/The_...a_zone_and_the_question_of_early_emporia_2010
With two pictures from there showing Arab Dirham finds. Find two differences! Very strange phenomenon in South Baltics:
finds dated 780-830
And
finds dated 850-900
It looks like Prussians withdrew from Viking trade route quite early. 850. Truso was still operating after that date but apparently that particular Arab trade route was closed. Also author states interesting Prussian phenomenon - there were no silver and gold finds after 850 and author states the following on page 356:
"Early Medieval Prussian tribes were remarkably immune to influence of the Baltic region silver economy. This is known also, thanks to Adam of Bremen, who noted that Sambians and Prussians: Aurum et Argentum pro minimo ducunt (Tschan ed. &transl.1959,199)
1) I have started to get some doubts as I noticed post from user Huck Finn from biodiversity forum on the subject. Apparently there is specific type of axes that is called Malar axes and dated to bronze age. This is distribution of axes finds (their origin could have been Volga):
Notice big red circle in Lithuania? Could this be the origin in M2782+ in Balts? Maybe.
2) Found another interesting work on viking trade in Baltics.
http://www.academia.edu/485512/The_...a_zone_and_the_question_of_early_emporia_2010
With two pictures from there showing Arab Dirham finds. Find two differences! Very strange phenomenon in South Baltics:
And
It looks like Prussians withdrew from Viking trade route quite early. 850. Truso was still operating after that date but apparently that particular Arab trade route was closed. Also author states interesting Prussian phenomenon - there were no silver and gold finds after 850 and author states the following on page 356:
"Early Medieval Prussian tribes were remarkably immune to influence of the Baltic region silver economy. This is known also, thanks to Adam of Bremen, who noted that Sambians and Prussians: Aurum et Argentum pro minimo ducunt (Tschan ed. &transl.1959,199)