Atgimę piliakalniai
LTŠi knyga skirta išskirtiniam Lietuvos paveldui - piliakalniams. 2018 m. lapkričio mėnesį jų žinoma 926, ir šis skaičius vis dar didėja, pavyzdžiui, 2018 m. identifikuoti 5 nežinomi piliakalniai. Piliakalniai - labiausiai matoma ir suvokiama archeologijos paveldo rūšis, viduramžių pilių ir istorinių įvykių vietos, kurių kultūriniuose sluoksniuose glūdi informacija apie ilgą, maždaug 2500 metų, krašto praeities laikotarpį. 2017-ieji, Lietuvoje paskelbti piliakalnių metais, tapo gražia įžanga pasitinkant atkurtos Lietuvos šimtmetį ir savotiškai priminė, kad mūsų valstybės ištakos siekia priešistorinius laikus. Praeities sąsają su šiandiena atspindi nepriklausomoje Lietuvoje sutvarkyti piliakalniai. 100 atrinktų piliakalnių, pristatomų šioje knygoje, tarsi simbolizuoja Lietuvos šimtmetį.Taigi mūsų valstybės šimtmetis yra ir piliakalnių atgimimo šimtmetis. [Iš teksto, p. 6]Reikšminiai žodžiai: Piliakalniai; Piliakalnių apsauga; Paveldas; Tvarkymo darbai; Hillforts; Hillforts protection; Heritage.
ENIn 2018, 926 hillforts wore known in Lithuania, about 900 of which have survived and can be adapted for tourism. The majority are currently overgrown with trees and bushes, but roughly a quarter have been the object of various landscaping work. Images of the hundred hillforts that have improved the most during the last three decades (in independent Lithuania) are presented in this book. Aerial photographs and brief descriptions of them highlight the work that has been performed in putting them in order. Because managing hillforts is a dynamic process, the condition of the majority of them was recorded in 2018, the centenary of Lithuanian independence. Lithuanian’s hillforts began to be protected in 1935-1936 when it was forbidden to plough or otherwise damage them. During the Soviet era, attention focused more on preserving nature than the cultural heritage and the majority of the hillforts became overgrown with trees. Since the 1970s the most famous hillforts started to be put in order and in the late 1980s, methods for managing the hillforts were formulated. During 1991-2009, the Department of Cultural Heritage conducted a state-level hillfort preservation programme oriented at eliminating the emergency condition of those hillforts being destroyed through natural processes (especially flowing water). During this period, various landscaping work was conducted at approximately 100 hillforts. Since 2007, protected territories (especially regional parks) and municipal governments have joined in the management of the hillforts through the use of European Union financing. Small-scale landscaping work has been carried out by elderships, societies, and even private individuals.The current goal in managing Lithuania's hillforts is to reveal the cultural value and adjacent natural features of each hillfort as thoroughly as possible and to create the infrastructure necessary for the public to be able to visit without damaging the hillfort’s protected valuable features. This is being by removing certain greenery from the hillforts, creating steps on the slopes, building information stands at its approaches and installing signage directing visitors to the object. The hillfort management experience that has been accumulated in Lithuania and the work performed there can serve as an example for managing analogous cultural objects in other countries. [From the publication]
