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The Kanozero Lake located at the southern part of the Kola Peninsula (Murmansk region, Russia). In 1997 the first petroglyphs were discovered at the lake on Kamenniy Island, which were mainly made in the Neolithic and Bronze Age. Up to... more
The main thesis incorporates the following embedded articles: Paper I. Manninen, M. A. & Knutsson, K. 2011. Northern Inland Oblique Point Sites – a New Look into the Late Mesolithic Oblique Point Tradition in Eastern Fennoscandia.... more
The elk (Alces alces) in Finnish rock art (in Finnish)
The basis for discussions of the pioneer human settlement of northernmost Fennoscandia has always been twofold: The timing and directions of human settlement on the one hand and the controlling factors inherent in the deglaciation of the... more
The huge scientific and interpretive value of wetland archaeological sites has been well demonstrated in several studies. The management of the archaeological resource of wetland landscapes is problematic, however, and there is an urgent... more
The chronology of the eastern Fennoscandian Neolithic is organized with the help of pottery styles, one of which is southwestern Finnish Jäkärlä Ware. In this paper a number of new radiocarbon dates connected with Jäkärlä Ware and other... more
The wetland site of Järvensuo 1 is located by the southern shore of the overgrown and drained Lake Rautajärvi in Humppila, south-west Finland. The peatland drainage and small-scale wetland excavations have revealed a rare corpus of... more
Formal technologies and intensified reduction are often seen as responses to increased mobility and low abundance of lithic raw material of good flakeability and controllability. Although patterns of lithic raw material availability and... more
Archaeological native copper finds pertaining to Neolithic sites in Finland and Russian Karelia were analysed using a multi-method approach comprising portable X-ray fluorescence spectrom-etry (pXRF), electron-probe microanalysis (EPMA),... more
Изделия из кости и рога были важнейшей частью материальной культуры древних охотников и рыболовов побережья Баренцева моря от неолита до эпохи раннего железного века. Прослежена изменчивость двух ведущих категорий костяного инвентаря –... more
The article presents brief information about the discovery of new petroglyphs on the archaeological site of Kanozero
The increasing number of Stone Age rock art sites across northern Fennoscandia invites studies of variation in topography and motivations between locations, both between and within regions. Even a preliminary overview suggests significant... more