House Pits in Northern Interior Fennoscandia

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

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.
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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The discussion is based on material from surveys and excavations carried out between 2009 and 2013 within the LARM project as well as unpublished data from earlier research investigations conducted by the authors and material from previous excavations and registrations by national culture heritage management. The data are primarily geographically restricted to Finnmark and Troms counties, but with complementary material from the three northernmost municipalities of Anár/Inari, Eanodat/Enontekiö and Ochejohka/Utsjoki in Lapland, Finland, and the northern part of Norrbotten, Sweden. We begin with a brief perusal of the research history and a presentation of the evidence, after which we proceed to issues of chronology, and then of how the sites relate to geography, topography and soils. We then discuss the various shapes and sizes of the dwellings, and finally address contemporaneity, continuity and the reuse of house pits, sites and selected areas.

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Blankholm, Hans Peter; Skandfer, Marianne. House Pits in Northern Interior Fennoscandia. Archaeological Perspectives on Hunter-Gatherer Landscapes and Resource Management in Interior North Norway. Equinox eBooks Publishing, United Kingdom. p. 445-495 Dec 2024. ISBN 9781781798171. https://www.equinoxpub.com/home/view-chapter/?id=33998. Date accessed: 21 Nov 2024 doi: 10.1558/equinox.33998. Dec 2024

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