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    • Bear bones at Saami offering sites 

      Spangen, Marte; Salmi, Anna-Kaisa; Äikäs, Tiina; Fjellström, Markus (Chapter; Bokkapittel, 2023-01)
      Saami traditions related to bear hunting and bear burials are quite well known, both from written and archaeological sources. However, the Saami also included bears in their repeated rituals at offering sites, which has been less explored. In this article, we present the archaeological sources for this offering tradition. Further, we discuss the chronology and geography as well as the content and ...

    • Introduction: Currents of Saami pasts 

      Spangen, Marte; Salmi, Anna-Kaisa; Äikäs, Tiina; Fjellström, Markus (Chapter; Bokkapittel, 2020)
      A scientific field is a constant process, and, as all processes, it is defined by dialectics, since standpoints are only defined in opposition to something else. Saami archaeology is no exception, and this field emerged precisely because of oppositions, when political conflicts enforced the realization of a lack of consideration of the Saami presence in the prevailing understanding of the past in ...

    • Zooarchaeological and stable isotope evidence of Sámi reindeer offerings 

      Salmi, Anna-Kaisa; Fjellström, Markus; Äikäs, Tiina; Spangen, Marte; Nunez, Milton; Lidén, Kerstin (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2019-12-19)
      This paper presents new osteometric and stable isotope evidence of Sámi reindeer offerings. Previous archaeological studies have shown that reindeer domestication and intensification of reindeer herding transformed Sámi indigenous religion. However, because of the methodological challenges in the identification of wild and domesticated reindeer in the archaeological record, the exact nature of the ...