Living with death: what moral consideration of mortuary practices reveals about the plurality of worldviews in the multi-millennial past of Central Fennoscandia

Hakonen, Aki; Hakamäki, Ville

doi:10.1080/1751696x.2019.1681744

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“…An ancient association between red ochre and fire, and with the warmth of the lifegiving hearth (e.g. Hakonen & Hakamäki 2019), is just one possibility out of many, but one which resonates deeply, especially in the subarctic context.…”

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“…Huurre 1998; Halinen 1999: 173–4; Purhonen et al . 2001: 302–3; Lappalainen 2007; Halinen 2015; Nordqvist & Mökkönen 2016; Nordqvist 2018; Ahola 2019: 40, 42; Hakonen & Hakamäki 2019; Hakonen 2021b & c; Mökkönen & Nordqvist 2021). Yet no overview of Tainiaro has ever been published and its interpretation as a cemetery remains problematic.…”

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A large fifth-millennium BC cemetery in the subarctic north of the Baltic Sea?

Hakonen,

Perälä,

Vaneeckhout

et al. 2023

Antiquity

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The European far north is an improbable location for a large prehistoric hunter-gatherer cemetery. Tainiaro, 80km south of the Arctic Circle, was first excavated four decades ago but the unpublished findings and their potential significance have evaded wider recognition. Despite the absence of skeletal evidence, dozens of fifth-millennium BC pits have been tentatively interpreted as burials. Here, the authors present the first analytical and comparative overview of the site. Many of the pits are consistent in form with those used for inhumation at contemporaneous sites suggesting that Tainiaro is one of the largest Stone Age cemeteries in northern Europe and raising questions about the cultural and subsistence practices of prehistoric societies in the subarctic.

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A large fifth-millennium BC cemetery in the subarctic north of the Baltic Sea?

Hakonen,

Perälä,

Vaneeckhout

et al. 2023

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Communities Beyond Society: Divergence of Local Prehistories on the Bothnian Arc, Northern Europe

Hakonen

2021

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This article presents a comparison of material records of two nearby regions on the coast of the Bothnian Bay. The timeframe is 5300–2000 BCE. The focus is on regional differences, which indicate a schizmogenesis of communal identities. The study calls for a reorientation of research concerning Fennoscandian prehistory. More attention should be paid to localized prehistories. It is argued that when prehistoric society is used as a fundamental group category, especially in the context of forager communities, the modern concept of state society distorts the underlying framework. Focusing on the regional level by constructing local prehistoric narratives limits the anachronistic effect and allows the proliferation of local communal identities. Such local prehistories, when collated and compared, offer a pathway to understanding prehistoric stateless societies, which are misrepresented by simplistic material cultural zones and the inherent homogeny ingrained within the concept of society. In this paper, the analysis is focused on practices representing local traditions. Two divergent themes that arise from the local prehistoric narratives are the Late Mesolithic use of local stone materials and regional changes in Neolithic dwelling forms.

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Living with death: what moral consideration of mortuary practices reveals about the plurality of worldviews in the multi-millennial past of Central Fennoscandia

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A large fifth-millennium BC cemetery in the subarctic north of the Baltic Sea?

A large fifth-millennium BC cemetery in the subarctic north of the Baltic Sea?

Communities Beyond Society: Divergence of Local Prehistories on the Bothnian Arc, Northern Europe

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