Fennoscandia archaeologica XVIII (2001)
Articles:
- Mika Lavento, Petri Halinen, Vladimir Timofeev, Dmitri Gerasimov and Alexander Saksa,
An archaeological field survey of Stone Age and Early Metal Period settlement
at Kaukola (Sevastyanovo) and Räisälä (Melnikovo) on the Karelian
Isthmus in 1999 PDF Errata
- Eero Jarva, Markku Niskanen and Kirsti Paavola, Anatomy of a Late Iron Age inhumation burial of Hiukka at Nivankylä (Rovaniemi, Finnish Lapland) PDF
- Birgit Tuchen, Die mittelalterliche Sauna in Süddeutschland und der Schweiz PDF
Book reviews:
- Mika Lavento, Textile Ceramics in Finland and on the Karelian
Isthmus, Nine Variations and Fugue on a theme of C. F. Meinander. Suomen
Muinaismuisto-yhdistyksen aikakauskirja 109/2001, 410 p. Reviewed by Lars Forsberg. PDF
- Richard A. Gould, Archaeology and the Social History of Ships. Cambridge (Cambridge University Press) 2000, 360 p. Reviewed by Jukka Palm. PDF
- Gösta Bågenholm, Arkeologi och språk
i Norra Östersjöområdet. Gotarc B:12. Göteborg 1999,
212 p., English summary, appendix. Reviewed by Jukka Luoto. PDF
- Heinrich Härke (ed.), Archaeology, Ideology and Society:
The German Experience. Gesellschaften und Staaten 7. Peter Lang GmbH. Frankfurt
am Main 2000, 432 p. Reviewed by Visa Immonen. PDF
In memoriam:
- Silvia Laul, Evald Tõnisson in memoriam PDF
Abstracts:
Mika Lavento, Petri Halinen, Vladimir Timofeev, Dmitri Gerasimov and Alexander Saksa
AN ARCHAEOLOGICAL FIELD SURVEY OF STONE AGE AND EARLY METAL PERIOD
SETTLEMENT AT KAUKOLA (SEVASTYANOVO) AND RÄISÄLÄ (MELNIKOVO)
ON THE KARELIAN ISTHMUS IN 1999
Abstract
In the spring of 1999 the Department of Archaeology of the University of
Helsinki, and the Institute of History and Material Culture/RAN at St. Petersburg
carried out a two-week survey in the municipalities of Kaukola (Sevastjanovo)
and Räisälä (Melnikovo) with the purpose of uncovering previously
unknown, mostly Stone Age and Early metal Period sites. During the survey
36 Stone Age and 2 Early Metal period sites were found. Materials from the
historical period were found at three sites, and at five dwelling sites one
to four dwelling depressions were documented. Dwelling depressions are not
earlier known on the Karelian Isthmus. The survey clearly shows that on the
Karelian Isthmus there can be found a large number of new sites also in areas
that are better known than other areas on the Isthmus. The role of survey
methods is also discussed.
Keywords: Karelian Isthmus, field surveys, history of research, methodology, Stone Age, Early Metal Period.
Eero Jarva, Markku Niskanen and Kirsti Paavola
ANATOMY OF A LATE IRON AGE INHUMATION BURIAL OF HIUKKA AT NIVANKYLÄ (ROVANIEMI, FINNISH LAPLAND)
Abstract
Written sources from the eighteenth century, describing what was clearly
of an Iron Age burial discovered acci-dentally, led a group of archaeologists
from the University of Oulu to make an excavation in 1978 at Nivankylä,
the rural district of Rovaniemi in Finnish Lapland. The remains of a disturbed
inhumation burial were found, probably those mentioned by the written sources.
A calibrated radiocarbon date of around AD 1215 corresponds to that suggested
by the sources mentioning an animal pendant. The study of the nearly complete
skeleton, which is the earliest of its kind in northern Finland, has shown
that we are dealing with a young adult female, probably only 145-150 cm tall,
who may have suffered from anaemia and rickets and died at an age of about
18-22 years. The genetic probability values indicate her being more likely
a Finn than a Saami (or a Swede). There are reasons to suppose that we are
dealing with a find connected to a permanent settlement of the Rovaniemi
region. Although south-western Finland has been seen as the main source of
the origin of the early farming settlement, it seems that, in this case,
we can see the south-east was also significant, recalling at the same time
that the historical sources speak of the nearby Ylikylä as a densely
inhabited Karelian village.
Keywords: Late Iron Age, skeletons, knives, animal pendants, female burials, paleopathology, ethnicity.
Birgit Tuchen
DIE MITTELALTERLICHE SAUNA IN SÜDDEUTSCHLAND UND DER SCHWEIZ
Archäologische und bauhistorische Beiträge zu Architektur und Ausstattung der "badstube"
Abstract
It is almost unknown nowadays that during the Middle Ages the sauna was as
popular in Central Europe as it is still today in Finland. Every town, every
village had at least one public bathhouse ("Badstube") that was used as a
sauna, medical centre and meeting place. Recent archaeological and architectural
research concerning former bathhouses gives detailed information about their
architecture and equipment. The buildings were erected as ma-sonry houses
or timber-framed buildings. The most important and largest space was the
sauna room, which was equipped with two ovens: one for the sauna and the
other for heating water. Both stoves were heated from a heating place outside
the sauna room. Another room with a tiled stove and benches or beds served
as a dressing and resting room. The public sauna in Central Europe was used
until the early 18 th century and became popular again when the Finnish sauna
was imported in the 20 th century.
Keywords: Middle Ages, bathhouse, architecture, equipment, Southern Germany, Switzerland.