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  • Barents region
    • Economy
      • Business cultures
      • Reindeer husbandry
    • Environment & Nature
      • Barents Sea
        • Physical characteristics
      • Protected areas
      • Animals and plants
        • Treeline
        • Habitat fragmentation
        • Tourism and nature
        • Lemmings
        • King crab
    • History
      • Archaeology
        • Rowhouses
        • Age of Iron
        • Ylikyla
        • Seal hunters
      • Willem Barentz
      • Conflicts in the Barents region
    • Indigenous people
      • Komi
      • Nenets
      • Pomors
      • Sámi
      • Veps
    • Maps
      • Map of the Barents Region
      • Map of Border Crossings in the Barents Region
    • Statistics
      • Population
        • Change in Population in the Barents Region 2018/2021
      • border crossings
    • Travel and Tourism
      • Timetables
    • Transport
      • Northern Sea Route
  • Maps
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Archaeology - life in the Barents region during the early days

 

Articles by Archaeologist Hannu Kotivuori, Provincial Museum of Lapland 
(retired)

  • Rowhouses on the coast of the Arctic Ocean 
  • Age of iron 
  • Seal hunters’ dwellings by the River Kemijoki in the Stone Age
  • Ylikylä – medieval Rovaniemi

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  • Human presence in the European Arctic nearly 40,000 years ago
  • White Sea carvings
  • Religious stones in Karelia
  • The stone labyrinths in Karelia
  • Rock images in Karelia
  • Saami sacred stones in Karelia

 

Pipe chamber from Ylikylä,
Rovaniemi, Finland.
Photo: Jukka Suvilehto