Previous Archaeological Research in Interior Finnmark and Troms

Archaeological Perspectives on Hunter-Gatherer Landscapes and Resource Management in Interior North Norway - Marianne Skandfer

Marianne Skandfer [+-]
Tromsø Museum – The University Museum, UIT - The Arctic University of Norway
Marianne Skandfer is Professor of Archaeology at the Arctic University Museum at UiT –The Arctic University of Norway, Tromsø. Her research interest focus is on hunter-gatherer knowledge acquisition and transmission, specifically on prehistoric technology transmission and resource management including human–animal socialities. She initiated the LARM project, and has published several papers on, among other subjects, early ceramic technology, material culture and identity, and human–animal relations in northern, prehistoric, hunter-gatherer societies. She is currently primary investigator in a project looking at demography and settlement in Stone Age northern Norway.
Bryan C. Hood [+-]
UiT - the Arctic University of Norway
Bryan C. Hood is Professor Emeritus of Archaeology in the Department of Archaeology, History, Religious Studies and Theology at UiT – The Arctic University of Norway, Tromsø, Norway. His research interests focus on Arctic and Subarctic hunter-gatherers, with fieldwork in northeastern Canada, Greenland, northern Norway and northwest Russia. He has published a book on the archaeology of northern Labrador, Canada, and papers on various aspects of the northern Norwegian Stone Age, including lithic procurement, Mesolithic settlement of the interior and coastal shellfish use. He is currently working on books dealing with Stone Age houses dated ca. 2000 BC in northeastern Norway and on the Kola Peninsula, Russia.
Hans Peter Blankholm [+-]
UiT - The Arctic University of Norway
Hans Peter Blankholm is Professor Emeritus of archaeology at the Department of Archaeology, History, Religious Studies and Theology, UiT – The Arctic University of Norway, Tromsø, Norway. His research covers Stone Age archaeology of Scandinavia, analytical methodology relating to spatial analyses, GIS, remote sensing, predictive modelling and biochemical analyses of foodways. Professor Blankholm is a member of the board for the Earth and Environmental Sciences Division within the European Academy of Sciences, and a member of UISPP Commission IV Quantitative Methods.

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In this chapter we synthesize the results of the 1960s–1990s fieldwork for interior Finnmark, the late 1950s to early 1960s and the early 2000s fieldwork for the Báhčeveaijohka/Pasvik river valley in eastern Finnmark, and the 1970s to early 2000s fieldwork for interior Troms. We also include some previously unpublished data. We begin with a presentation and reassessment of the groundbreaking investigations of medieval sites at Juntavađđa and Ássebákti, after which the results from the early 1970s surveys in central Finnmark are summarized. Several excavated sites are selected for brief presentation, in order to portray some of their range of variation and to provide data that will be referred to in later chapters. We then provide an overview of the 1980s–1990s investigations along the ÁlttáeatnuGuovdageaineatnu/Altaelva-Kautokeinoelva, before moving on to a presentation of the investigations along the Báhčeveaijohka/Pasvikelva. Finally, the Troms investigations are presented. The chapter concludes with a consideration of how these previous investigations set the stage for the LARM project. This section also includes an overview of some of the results from a cultural heritage registration campaign in central Finnmark in the 1980s not originally designed to include prehistoric sites, but where a fortunate local initiative has provided us with a large number of archaeological sites. This illustrates the potential for identifying a variety of sites when a project is not geographically restricted by developmental plans, typically close to the major waterways, as is the case for all the other registration campaigns presented here.

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Skandfer, Marianne; Hood, Bryan C.; Blankholm, Hans Peter. Previous Archaeological Research in Interior Finnmark and Troms. Archaeological Perspectives on Hunter-Gatherer Landscapes and Resource Management in Interior North Norway. Equinox eBooks Publishing, United Kingdom. p. 172-248 Dec 2024. ISBN 9781781798171. https://www.equinoxpub.com/home/view-chapter/?id=33994. Date accessed: 13 Dec 2024 doi: 10.1558/equinox.33994. Dec 2024

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