Stones in the snow: a Norse fur traders' road into Sami country
High in the mountains between Norway and Sweden, archaeological survey has brought to light a trail marked by standing stones at regular intervals and tall enough to show above the winter snows. In the absence of any cultural material, the erection of the stones was dated by the diameter of the lich...
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crcambridgeupr:10.1017/s0003598x00095260 2024-03-03T08:48:34+00:00 Stones in the snow: a Norse fur traders' road into Sami country Bergman, Ingela Östlund, Lars Zackrisson, Olle Liedgren, Lars 2007 http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0003598x00095260 https://www.cambridge.org/core/services/aop-cambridge-core/content/view/S0003598X00095260 en eng Cambridge University Press (CUP) https://www.cambridge.org/core/terms Antiquity volume 81, issue 312, page 397-408 ISSN 0003-598X 1745-1744 General Arts and Humanities Archeology journal-article 2007 crcambridgeupr https://doi.org/10.1017/s0003598x00095260 2024-02-08T08:29:26Z High in the mountains between Norway and Sweden, archaeological survey has brought to light a trail marked by standing stones at regular intervals and tall enough to show above the winter snows. In the absence of any cultural material, the erection of the stones was dated by the diameter of the lichen spreads upon them, and corroborated by a study of the documents and radiocarbon dates. The authors argue that this was not an indigenous trail but one constructed by a Norse chieftain probably around the ninth century AD to gain safe access to the fur-trading Sami. Article in Journal/Newspaper sami sami Cambridge University Press Norway Antiquity 81 312 397 408 |
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High in the mountains between Norway and Sweden, archaeological survey has brought to light a trail marked by standing stones at regular intervals and tall enough to show above the winter snows. In the absence of any cultural material, the erection of the stones was dated by the diameter of the lichen spreads upon them, and corroborated by a study of the documents and radiocarbon dates. The authors argue that this was not an indigenous trail but one constructed by a Norse chieftain probably around the ninth century AD to gain safe access to the fur-trading Sami. |
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Stones in the snow: a Norse fur traders' road into Sami country |
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