Multi-ethnic Involvement? Production and Use of Soapstone in Northern Norway
The northern Norwegian soapstone quarries display small, mainly rectangular extractions possibly for the production of smaller types of artifact or a kind of blank or rough out for various objects. In addition, some soapstone deposits might have been more than simply a source of raw material and can...
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ftunivbergen:oai:bora.uib.no:1956/16597 2023-05-15T17:43:19+02:00 Multi-ethnic Involvement? Production and Use of Soapstone in Northern Norway Bunse, Laura Hansen, Gitte Storemyr, Per 2017-08 application/pdf https://hdl.handle.net/1956/16597 eng eng University of Bergen UBAS - University of Bergen Archaeological Series urn:isbn:978-82-90273-90-8 urn:issn:0809-6058 https://hdl.handle.net/1956/16597 Attribution CC BY-NC-SA http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/ Copyright the authors 9 59-72 VDP::Humaniora: 000 Chapter Peer reviewed 2017 ftunivbergen 2023-03-14T17:42:17Z The northern Norwegian soapstone quarries display small, mainly rectangular extractions possibly for the production of smaller types of artifact or a kind of blank or rough out for various objects. In addition, some soapstone deposits might have been more than simply a source of raw material and can have functioned as landmarks or sieidi, a sacred place worshipped in traditional Sámi religion as a possible gateway to the spirit world. The quarries are located in areas with primarily Sámi or mixed Sámi and Norse settlements in the late Iron Age and early Medieval period, indicating a multi-ethnic influence. This raises questions relating both to the chronological framework and to the economic and sociocultural background of soapstone utilization in northern Norway. Norges forskningsråd 210449 Universitetsmuseet i Bergen Tromsø museum - Universitetsmuseet NTNU Vitenskapsmuseet publishedVersion Book Part Northern Norway Tromsø University of Bergen: Bergen Open Research Archive (BORA-UiB) Bergen Norway Tromsø |
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The northern Norwegian soapstone quarries display small, mainly rectangular extractions possibly for the production of smaller types of artifact or a kind of blank or rough out for various objects. In addition, some soapstone deposits might have been more than simply a source of raw material and can have functioned as landmarks or sieidi, a sacred place worshipped in traditional Sámi religion as a possible gateway to the spirit world. The quarries are located in areas with primarily Sámi or mixed Sámi and Norse settlements in the late Iron Age and early Medieval period, indicating a multi-ethnic influence. This raises questions relating both to the chronological framework and to the economic and sociocultural background of soapstone utilization in northern Norway. Norges forskningsråd 210449 Universitetsmuseet i Bergen Tromsø museum - Universitetsmuseet NTNU Vitenskapsmuseet publishedVersion |
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Multi-ethnic Involvement? Production and Use of Soapstone in Northern Norway |
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Multi-ethnic Involvement? Production and Use of Soapstone in Northern Norway |
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Multi-ethnic Involvement? Production and Use of Soapstone in Northern Norway |
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Multi-ethnic Involvement? Production and Use of Soapstone in Northern Norway |
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Multi-ethnic Involvement? Production and Use of Soapstone in Northern Norway |
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multi-ethnic involvement? production and use of soapstone in northern norway |
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University of Bergen |
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2017 |
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Bergen Norway Tromsø |
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Northern Norway Tromsø |
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Northern Norway Tromsø |
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UBAS - University of Bergen Archaeological Series urn:isbn:978-82-90273-90-8 urn:issn:0809-6058 https://hdl.handle.net/1956/16597 |
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Attribution CC BY-NC-SA http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/ Copyright the authors |
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