LARM Investigations in Interior Finnmark 2: Small Investigations in Western Finnmark and Excavations of House Pits in the Bácheveaij/Pasvik and Deatnu/Tana River Valleys, Eastern Finnmark

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.

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The LARM project (Landscape and Resource Management in Interior Arctic Norway 2500 BC–AD 1000 – see Chapter 1, this volume), while primarily focusing on Kárášjohka/Karasjok municipality (see Chapter 8, this volume), also undertook small-scale investigations in western Finnmark, and these are presented here. Additionally, one of the stepping-stones for the LARM project was a research project on prehistoric housing in the interior conducted by one of the authors (MS) in the mid-2000s (Skandfer and Bruun 2006; Skandfer 2009a; 2012a) in the Báhčeveaijohka/Pasvik and Deatnu/Tana river valleys, in the eastern part of Finnmark. These excavations have not previously been published, and the connection with the LARM project’s overall theme of landscape knowledge and resource management makes it relevant to present them here.

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Skandfer, Marianne; Hood, Bryan C.. LARM Investigations in Interior Finnmark 2: Small Investigations in Western Finnmark and Excavations of House Pits in the Bácheveaij/Pasvik and Deatnu/Tana River Valleys, Eastern Finnmark. Archaeological Perspectives on Hunter-Gatherer Landscapes and Resource Management in Interior North Norway. Equinox eBooks Publishing, United Kingdom. p. 310-340 Dec 2024. ISBN 9781781798171. https://www.equinoxpub.com/home/view-chapter/?id=33996. Date accessed: 21 Nov 2024 doi: 10.1558/equinox.33996. Dec 2024

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