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The first Curonian spit residents settled there, when the Spit consisted of the separate islands chain. Junction canals joined the Lagoon with the sea, and the fresh water lagoons which were formed about the middle of junction canals, encouraged people to settle down here. The lagoons were divided from the Lagoon by the old parabolic dunes overgrown with heavy leafy woods. In those times, it was a very prosperous land, which turned into wasteland only in XVIII c.
The Curonian Spit was populated the best in the late neolith at the end of III millennium B.C. and at the beginning of II millennium B.C. Their most vivid traces were tracked in Nida settlement, which was located near small lagoon, at the junction canal between the Lagoon and the sea. Low-level dunes obscured it from the Lagoon and the sea. Back then, the climate was warmer than nowadays, so there was no lack in forest and water goods. Several cultural layers were comprised during several decades of living on that territory.
Archeological expedition of Lithuanian History Institute lead by Professor Rimute Rimantiene had researched the area of 4,640 m², virtually the whole remaining ancient part of Nida settlement, in the locality during six research seasons (1973 – 1978). A great lot of findings were discovered. Among them, there was a large number of variously shaped pots, cups, jars, finger-bowls and fragments of glasses. Some of them are exhibited at Neringa Museum of History.
Working hours: May - October I-VII 9.00-19.00 March, April and November I-VII 10.00-17.00
January, February, and December - no fixed schedule
According to the book „Neringa“, 1998
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