Northern Europe (Geographic Keyword)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Tiina Väre. Annemari Tranberg. Titta Kallio-Seppä. Rasmus Åkerblom. Sanna Lipkin. 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. Hundreds of burials have been recorded below the Finnish church floors. Because of long winters and suitable conditions many of them are well-preserved including partially mummified human remains but also coffins, funerary fabrics, and plant remains related to coffin...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Kari Uotila. Maija Helamaa. Georg Haggrén.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Poverty And Plenty In The North", at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Large scale (c. 2 hectare) town excavations were carried out at the Market Square in Turku in 2018-2022. The excavations in revealed well preserved layers and structures more than 20 different town plots inhabited by mainly merchants, craftsmen and military and civil officers. The excavation area is mainly moist clay and organic material is...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Natascha Mehler.

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. In the context of Hanseatic trade, many ships and merchants from Bremen and Hamburg sailed to the North Atlantic islands in the 16th century to bring dried fish and other goods back to northern Germany. Some of these merchants met their deaths abroad. This paper...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Erika Ruhl.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Paper / Report Submission (General Sessions)", at the 2024 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Finnish burial clothing between the 17th and 19th centuries exists in two forms: (1) re-purposed items used in life and reused as burial clothes, and (2) re-made items assembled from second-hand materials specifically for burial. While some items are consistently re-purposed or re-made, others - such as the caps considered here -...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Jonny Geber. Jenny Bergman.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Paper Bodies: Excavating Archival Tissues and Traces", at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. One of the late nineteenth-century skulls in the anatomical collection at Lund University (Sweden) belongs to a middle adult woman (28-45 years of age); according to the archival documentation (including writing on the skull) she was a 28-year-old Sámi woman named Maria Grann. Media reports in Sweden have generally...