Kymi (State / Territory) (Geographic Keyword)

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Becoming Urban – Emerging Urban Food Culture in Early Modern Tornio, Northern Finland (2013)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Anna-Kaisa Salmi.

This paper focuses on emerging urban food culture in Tornio, a small town in Northern Finland, between AD 1621 and 1800. Tornio was founded in 1621 in Northern Finland, which at that time was a part of the Swedish kingdom. The population of the new urban centre was a mixture of local peasants and merchants from other towns of Sweden. Tornio was a dynamic boom town where people of different origins came together, forming a new urban community and a new urban food culture. Zooarchaeological...


Church mummies in the northern Ostrobothnia, Finland (2015)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Titta Kallio-Seppä. Timo Ylimaunu. Juho-Antti Junno. Paul R. Mullins. Tiina Väre. Matti Heino. Annamari Tranberg. Sanna Lipkin. Markku Niskanen. Rosa Vilkama. Sirpa Niinimäki. Saara Tuovinen.

This poster will present the initial analysis of several hundred mummies recovered from a series of Ostrobothnian churches.  The bioarchaeology project by the University of Oulu, Finland analyzed the mummified burials interred underneath the church floors in late-medieval and early modern Sweden.  The poster will examine the mummified burials and the material culture of churches as a single assemblage illuminating the transformation in a late-medieval and early modern Nordic worldview.


Colonial Encounters Reflected by the Contemporary Material Culture – Or What Happened When Miss Finland Wore a Sámi Clothing (2017)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Tiina Äikäs.

In the studies of colonial relations, historical archaeology usually concentrates on the early encounters between European settlers and indigenous peoples. Nevertheless, colonial relations are evident in the contemporary culture too, e.g. in the use of indigenous symbols in commercial connections and in tourism. Archaeology can study also this contemporary colonialism through material culture. In this paper, I first give some background on the topic of the session, comparative indigenism – a...


Do Archaeologist Make Terrible Parents? Reflections from Finnish Children Books and from Real Life (2020)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Tiina Äikäs. Anna-Kaisa Salmi.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Women’s Work: Archaeology and Mothering" , at the 2020 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. In contemporary Finnish children books researchers, quite often archaeologists, are described as distant parents who travel constantly or are so absorbed by their work that they hardly notice their children. As archaeologists and parents, we wonder if an absent-minded researcher parent is just practical plot device for allowing the...


eScience – a New Developing Paradigm for Archaeologists? (2013)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Teija Oikarinen. Helena Karasti. Timo Ylimaunu.

Digital infrastructures (DIs) and related socio-technical research have been proposed as methods for analysing and informing the eScience era of archaeology. This research area offers a conceptual framework for researching technologies, such as the role of IT and its implications for archaeology. DI conceptualization of technology also recognizes the process of digitalization and sociotechnical dynamics in integrating technologies into expanding configurations. Archaeology can be observed...


Ethical Issues In The Study And Preservation Of Early Modern Church Burials Of Northern Finland (2017)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Sirpa Niinimäki. Titta Kallio-Seppä. Tiina Väre. Sanna Lipkin.

A recent project on the study of early modern church burials of Northern Finland in the perspective of research and preservation of human and other material remains has raised several ethical issues. We have identified several parties who partake in the interest, opinions and sentiments in dealing with this particular context including local community, parish and the government. The rights, administration, and jurisdiction of different parties involved is far from being explicit, and this has...


The ethnoarchaeology of abandonment in a northern Finnish farming community. (Oulu) (1987)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Richard A Gould.

This resource is a citation record only, the Center for Digital Antiquity does not have a copy of this document. The information in this record has been migrated into tDAR from the EXARC Bibliography, originally compiled by Roeland Paardekooper, and updated. Most of these records consist of a document citation and other metadata but do not have the documents themselves uploaded. If you have a digital copy of the document and would like to have it curated in tDAR, please contact us using the...


Finnish Private Chapels: Research Ethics And Preservation Of Cultural Heritage (2023)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Sanna Lipkin. Titta Kallio-Seppä. Rasmus Åkerblom. Tiina Väre. Annemari Tranberg. Juho-Antti Junno.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Investigating Cultural Aspects of Historic Mortuary Archaeology: Perspectives from Europe and North America", at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. We will consider research ethics and issues related to preservation in the Finnish privately owned burial chapels. Whereas all conservation efforts and research needs to be done in accordance with laws, the intersection with preservation work and research ethics is not...


The first humans travelling on ice: an energy-saving strategy? (2008)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Federico Formenti. Alberto E Minetti.

This resource is a citation record only, the Center for Digital Antiquity does not have a copy of this document. The information in this record has been migrated into tDAR from the EXARC Bibliography, originally compiled by Roeland Paardekooper, and updated. Most of these records consist of a document citation and other metadata but do not have the documents themselves uploaded. If you have a digital copy of the document and would like to have it curated in tDAR, please contact us using the...


Forgotten and Remembered: Unusual Memorial Practices at Buffalo’s Old Cemeteries (2019)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Sanna Lipkin.

This is an abstract from the "Burial, Space, and Memory of Unusual Death" session, at the 2019 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Several cemeteries were established during the 19th century at Buffalo, NY. Today many of these cemeteries do not exist. Throughout decades human remains have been revealed by construction work, but about 1200 burials and memorial stones from different cemeteries were moved to new Forest Lawn cemetery after its establishment in 1850. These...


Geophysical survey of the old church yard (c. 1640-1890s) in Tyrnävä, Northern Ostrobothnia, Finland (2018)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Tiina M. Väre. Kari Moisio. Aki Hakonen. Sanna Lipkin. Mirette Modarress-Sadeghi. Sirpa Niinimäki. Riina Veijo. Heidi Lamminsivu. Titta Kallio-Seppä.

In the 2017 survey of the old churchyard of Tyrnävä parish ground penetrating radar and magnetometer were utilized to find the foundations of a church that stood on the site from 1664 until arson in 1865. The parish is situated on the coastal region of Northern Ostrobothnia, Finland and its history dates back to the 17th century. The parish’s churchyard used since the 1640s maintained its status as an active cemetery until the 1890s despite the destruction of the church. With time, the precise...


Huts and Houses, Stone Age and Early Metal Age Buildings in Finland (2003)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Carine Poelmann. Roeland P Paardekooper.

This resource is a citation record only, the Center for Digital Antiquity does not have a copy of this document. The information in this record has been migrated into tDAR from the EXARC Bibliography, originally compiled by Roeland Paardekooper, and updated. Most of these records consist of a document citation and other metadata but do not have the documents themselves uploaded. If you have a digital copy of the document and would like to have it curated in tDAR, please contact us using the...


Iconography of colonialism as production and reproduction in early modern Sweden (2013)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Timo Ylimaunu. Risto Nurmi. Timo Sironen. Paul R. Mullins. Titta Kallio-Seppä.

Images, pictures and urban poems were important tools in the production and reproduction of early modern Swedish colonialism and the Age of Great Power. Urban images of Erik Dahlberg in the volume Svecia Antiqua et Hodierna and poems of Olof Hermelin in Hecatompolis Suionum, for example, were productions of the period when Sweden was at its most powerful. We will discuss how these images reflect the archaeological record of northern towns in the coastal area of the northern Baltic Sea. We will...


The Idea of the Enlightenment and Environmental Relations in Early Modern Ostrobothnian Towns of Sweden: Macro- and Microfossil Studies of Local Plant Use (2016)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Annamari Tranberg.

Macro- and microfossil studies from the early modern Ostrobothnian towns provide information about both natural and cultural elements of local landscapes, including how landscapes changed in time and affected people’s lives. In this paper, I will discuss how the Ostrobothnians used their local plants. The period from the late 17th to the late 18th century was a time of significant chances in the philosophy of life and economic policy in Sweden, as well as in Europe in general. During the 18th...


Incorporating Laborers: Saunas in Industrial Finland (2017)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Timo Ylimaunu. Paul R. Mullins. Tiina Äikäs. Titta Kallio-Seppä.

Since the late 19th century most Finnish industrial areas have had one distinctive and important building—sauna—that was as important to workers as to the company’s officials. Industrial spaces had usually separated workers’ housing areas and many cases saunas were separately located from the housing and industrial spaces; most likely because of the danger of fire. We will discuss the importance and role of saunas for the industrial communities in Finland. In some industrial areas workers had...


Insect Remains From Early Modern Church Graves of Northern Ostrobothnian (Finland) Coast (2019)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Annemari Tranberg.

This is an abstract from the "POSTER Session 3: Material Culture and Site Studies" session, at the 2019 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Insects and plant fragments in graves tell a lot about the funeral ceremonies; the burial circumstances and the deceased. They also report events after burial; how the mummification process has progressed or what happened in and outside of the coffin after burial. This poster focuses specifically on the analysis of the insect...


Iron slag and iron work in the Aura River Valley [Varsinais-Suomi/Egentliga Finland] during the Iron Age (1995)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Jouko Pukkila.

This resource is a citation record only, the Center for Digital Antiquity does not have a copy of this document. The information in this record has been migrated into tDAR from the EXARC Bibliography, originally compiled by Roeland Paardekooper, and updated. Most of these records consist of a document citation and other metadata but do not have the documents themselves uploaded. If you have a digital copy of the document and would like to have it curated in tDAR, please contact us using the...


Kadonnutta kokeillen ja havainnollitaen / att experimentera med och åskåelliggöra det förgånga (1998)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Markku Ikäheimo.

(experimental archaeology and mediation of the past) (Finnish, Swedish, and with an English summary) (Kurala Experimental Workshop within the 'Village of Living


Kirkkonummen luutuura (1979)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Janne Vilkuna.

This resource is a citation record only, the Center for Digital Antiquity does not have a copy of this document. The information in this record has been migrated into tDAR from the EXARC Bibliography, originally compiled by Roeland Paardekooper, and updated. Most of these records consist of a document citation and other metadata but do not have the documents themselves uploaded. If you have a digital copy of the document and would like to have it curated in tDAR, please contact us using the...


Koivutervan valmistus ja käyttö (preparation and use of birch-bark tar) (1997)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Panu Nykänen. Johanna Seppä.

This resource is a citation record only, the Center for Digital Antiquity does not have a copy of this document. The information in this record has been migrated into tDAR from the EXARC Bibliography, originally compiled by Roeland Paardekooper, and updated. Most of these records consist of a document citation and other metadata but do not have the documents themselves uploaded. If you have a digital copy of the document and would like to have it curated in tDAR, please contact us using the...


Kuoppa-asumusten lämmityskokeilu Kierikissä (1999)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Jalo Alakärppä.

Experiments in heating pit dwellings in Kierikki [Pohjois-Pohjanmaa / Norra Österbotten]


Living In Danger: The Spatial Practices In The Pre-industrial Pitch Mill Site In Early Modern Oulu, Finland (2017)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Marika Hyttinen. Timo Ylimaunu. Titta Kallio-Seppä.

In the early 17th century the coastal towns in the present-day northern Finland’s Gulf of Bothnia, at that time a part of Swedish kingdom, became home to the pre-industrial mills manufacturing pitch by boiling tar. Producing pitch by fire was a dangerous process as tar was a highly flammable material, so the pitch mills were often founded on the islands or secluded places outside the inhabited urban area. This poster discusses the spatial practices of the pitch mill society and how the physical...


Magical thinking, relational thinking, and the archaeology of the modern world (2013)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Vesa-Pekka Herva.

Relational and other alternative ontologies and epistemologies have recently been discussed in archaeology, but those discussions have had only a limited impact on historical archaeology. This paper discusses the relationship between relational being/knowing and magical thinking in the modern Western world. It will be proposed that various forms of magical thinking, from Renaissance hermeticism to contemporary popular beliefs, can provide useful insights into the significance of relational being...


Male dress in Finland during the Viking Age (1998)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Pirkko-Liisa Lehtosalo-Hilander.

This resource is a citation record only, the Center for Digital Antiquity does not have a copy of this document. The information in this record has been migrated into tDAR from the EXARC Bibliography, originally compiled by Roeland Paardekooper, and updated. Most of these records consist of a document citation and other metadata but do not have the documents themselves uploaded. If you have a digital copy of the document and would like to have it curated in tDAR, please contact us using the...


Mass Graves of Finnish War in Northern Finland – Analyses of One Casualty (2019)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Tiina M. Väre. Heli Maijanen. Laura Arppe. Sanna Lipkin. Tiina Kuokkanen.

This is an abstract from the "Burial, Space, and Memory of Unusual Death" session, at the 2019 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. After the Finnish war (1808–1809), Sweden surrendered its eastern parts (Finland) to Russia. According a treaty, the Swedish troops retreated northwards from Oulu to the Swedish side. The journey proved harsh for the sick, weakened troops wandering in the snow without proper winter-gear. Many would not make it. For the rest, the hastily...