 the same people and in just a short history in 2017 I heard about this about this cemetery from my Lithuanian colleagues and then contact Slava in seven and we begin to collaborate and then there have been several trips there and before before the September this year I've been preparing one Alexander von Humboldt project project in Schleswig about those western vaults yeah Slava Tolkja and it was a problem always because in 11th century all those western vaults they have located they've been in prehistory surrounded by history by Polish, Rus, Scandinavian principalities and it was always a question how to put these people who've been surrounded by history into history and I invented not invented and use the three methods to clarify the dating of the site I used JS our power statistics and C14 dating and then when we met I decided to use the same methods to clarify the date and typology of this site and then the story begins so during this year so on this picture you you can see the primer investigation so this table I draw all the people included into the pilot study about this site which have started now I mean in this year and we'll go till June when we I hope apply to we'll make an dfg application and we go further with all the team so the principal investigators are on this picture and you can see the map so that's the big round thing it's a territory of the main where from the main influences all the all the feeblers all the fines come from the small dot is also and the bigger scale are where from the other things like viral rights come the other fine other finds like kawaii muscles and so on and as Slava told you so just one picture to show all the feeblers are originated must have been the western bulls area that means from the old tribes of Prussian scrawny and scallvians but you know other Baltic other is other people from East Baltic other Baltic tribe they use as feeblers too you know and the interest in that there are two territories in the East Baltic region which are quite famous from the very beginning of 11th century of the because of the concentration of all tools imports one was strictly connected to the old rules principalities like scope and so on in the level down the way in Latvia and another one this you know this time the peninsula today's clean but between Russia with the with the huge amounts of amber was isolated but had a huge concentration of imports from West and East and was and there are some connections and I said there's feeblers and other stuff so and another point there the inhumations with a nothing orientation so all those territories they have more of us just kind of great so so we decided to try to check all the cultures you can see here so in this list so the blue one is the most suspicious so now we hope that those people are came from here but they could come from the red territories and from the blue ones too so how do you prove it how to connect those people so the Bolton keep and lose is this a match so the first the first point to connect is chronology of course the relative one typology and you know typology is good but quite intuitive and I don't believe it I don't believe it to eat very much but the last results of my personal project of dating the ball the personal ball stuff we see 14 gave quite reliable and synchronous and systematic results so I decided to to try the same with the host of data data so and there are some examples now we do dating in the kill labor with Christian Harmon he is in the list here and there's and unfortunately the EAA is not in the middle of September because I've got I wrote the guides and kill into the ancient DNA labor and to the stable isotopes and see for the labor and they told that Roman the things are in sequence or a results coming next week so next next conference in Ukraine in November we will have so now we have only one date so just imagine two graves two graves with the same feeblers one formation from visual and at the lower Neiman and the second one is the ostrich's grave number number two so and this great and if to suppose just to imagine those people came because that's very interesting thing about those people they stopped to bar as they deceased around year 1020-1040 they disappear and then appear again in 150 years when the Germans came so that's maybe we haven't learned to find that the same trees better so we can see that this date ends that's a combination of the date of textile and the burn bill ends on year to 1,020 and the year of Ostrich in Ukraine accurately I don't know I haven't made it in Photoshop just got it and the date and also dates begins slightly where the date the reciprocative date ends so we have ten minutes for square that gave that gave us some additional ground to get some money and now so just show it again how it works in the picture and now there are ten samples in labor and more than 30 from five is Baltic cultures and so in one week we will have all the results to compare and just and to show are they connected or not then the physical anthropology we do is Ukrainian colleagues and Lithuanians and Latvians one they are in the least and marked by red so we are and the ancient DNA study so we are taking parts patrols of bones and do it in a in a kiln labor so to study is a diet stable isotopes for diet and some composition of DNA to compare the people from five is both the crucial cultures and also there's a problem that the most of the Boston Western bolt use cremation now so we compare the people who've been using inhumation and who've been living on the on the border between Eastern and Western balls for example semi gallant semi gallant the people who use the inhumation there's nothing orientation but they had a lot of crony and stuff cloning people so just to check so and it's very hard to wait because just one week and I will have the results the step four is a metal composition analyzes because there are a lot of western western Baltic stuff from killing's back to this thing right which stored in the museum and the new things from Austria so and we will take 10 samples from each collection for the same type people us and we'll compare them in October with the iron beam in kill labov is Mr. Kinley then the next step not mark here but just just to conclude is to make the geophysical prospection with the killing University team and dr. Wabbel and Olga Manik from Ukrainian side first of all to check the composition of settlement nearby the cemetery and then if we will succeed you see then we apply to dfg and if we succeed about the dfg and a lot of money we will try to check every every from 15 let's say if it will be possible hill forts on the for the to check to try to find if there is a center like they like that on the other shore of the river and then and then maybe we will have results not only like that but as Slava told that Ostrov is connected to the much wider Viking the late Viking age horizon of you and maybe that the natural will find connections to the much wider context of you like you know height of one song so very thank you very much for your kind attention