LARM Investigations in Interior Finnmark 1: The Kárášjohka/Karasjok Region

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

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.
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.

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A significant part of the LARM project's archaeological fieldwork was conducted in the Kárášjohka/Karasjok region of central Finnmark. We describe the results of surveys and small excavations undertaken in the three primary sub-regions of investigation: the Ássebákti-Kárášjohka/Karasjokelva river valley, a survey corridor on the interfluvial plateau extending from the Iešjohka river in the south to Iešjávri, the largest lake in Finnmark, in the north, and the Jergul area in the Iešjohka river valley. For each sub-region the distribution of Stone Age to medieval sites is mapped, and a single locality is selected for a case study: a small dwelling structure from the Early Metal Age, a large hunting-pit system possibly in use from the Stone Age to early modern times, and a small activity site from the Early Metal Age.

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Hood, Bryan C.; Skandfer, Marianne. LARM Investigations in Interior Finnmark 1: The Kárášjohka/Karasjok Region. Archaeological Perspectives on Hunter-Gatherer Landscapes and Resource Management in Interior North Norway. Equinox eBooks Publishing, United Kingdom. p. 249-309 Dec 2024. ISBN 9781781798171. https://www.equinoxpub.com/home/view-chapter/?id=33995. Date accessed: 25 Apr 2025 doi: 10.1558/equinox.33995. Dec 2024

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