The article is a report on field activities of 2014 at a renowned location of Kaup forest near Wiskiauten/Viskiautai, nowadays Kaliningrad oblast of Russia, and a sentimental journey through the research history in a region at the crossroads of ancient communication webs, and more recently – of diverse political agendas. Field activities focused on the so-called Barrow 1, the only known mound at Kaup dated to the Neolithic, otherwise dotted with burials of the Viking Age. It was an attempt to reconstruct barrow architecture, which has resulted in a deconstruction of previous views based on rather scarce excavation reports of the 19th – early 20th century. The Neolithic barrow of Kaup remains a unique testimony of the social complexity and spatial awareness of the early 3rd millennium BC when Europe was under the spell of the Corded Ware and other related cultural phenomena.

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KAUP 2014：考古发掘和研究历史

这篇文章是关于 2014 年在 Wiskiauten/Viskiautai 附近 Kaup 森林著名地点（现在是俄罗斯的加里宁格勒州）的实地活动的报告，以及在古代通信网络十字路口的一个地区的研究历史的感伤之旅，以及最近– 不同的政治议程。实地活动集中在所谓的 Barrow 1 上，这是 Kaup 已知的唯一一座可追溯到新石器时代的土墩，此外还点缀着维京时代的墓葬。这是一次重建手推车建筑的尝试，导致基于 19 世纪至 20 世纪初相当稀少的挖掘报告对先前观点的解构。