A Pre-Roman Burial Site in Puijonsarvennenä, Kuopio, Eastern Finland: Preliminary Results and Interpretations
In 2019, a metal detector hobbyist found an iron spearhead, a knife, and some burnt bones from an ambiguous stone structure situated on the scenic cape of Puijonsarvennenä in Kuopio. Archaeological excavation and sub- sequent analyses of the find material confirmed that the site was a single cremati...
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ftunivhelsihelda:oai:helda.helsinki.fi:10138/353547 2024-01-07T09:45:27+01:00 A Pre-Roman Burial Site in Puijonsarvennenä, Kuopio, Eastern Finland: Preliminary Results and Interpretations Kunnas-Pusa, Liisa Knuutinen, Tarja Salo, Kati Kirkinen, Tuija Archaeology Department of Cultures Faculty of Arts 2023-01-24T11:20:02Z 23 application/pdf http://hdl.handle.net/10138/353547 eng eng Suomen arkeologinen seura Kunnas-Pusa , L , Knuutinen , T , Salo , K & Kirkinen , T 2022 , ' A Pre-Roman Burial Site in Puijonsarvennenä, Kuopio, Eastern Finland: Preliminary Results and Interpretations ' , Fennoscandia Archaeologica , vol. XXXIX , pp. 5-27 . < https://journal.fi/fennoscandiaarchaeologica/article/view/125721 > ORCID: /0000-0001-5572-4426/work/127503857 ORCID: /0000-0001-6408-2074/work/127505134 ORCID: /0000-0003-4621-9529/work/127509370 e544f7d5-7bd1-41e3-9693-0f8b103e91bb http://hdl.handle.net/10138/353547 other openAccess info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess 615 History and Archaeology cremation burial Early Metal Period Iron Age Pre-Roman Period Osteology cairn Article publishedVersion 2023 ftunivhelsihelda 2023-12-14T00:02:23Z In 2019, a metal detector hobbyist found an iron spearhead, a knife, and some burnt bones from an ambiguous stone structure situated on the scenic cape of Puijonsarvennenä in Kuopio. Archaeological excavation and sub- sequent analyses of the find material confirmed that the site was a single cremation burial, which was radiocarbon dated to 410–355 calBC, in the Pre-Roman Iron Age. The find material included several fragments of bone artefacts and a small amount of asbestos-tempered ceramics. The burial and its finds seem to indicate that the deceased person engaged in hunting and possibly fur trading, setting Puijonsarvennenä into a continuum with similar burial sites known from interior and northern Finland from the Early Bronze Age to the Late Iron Age. Currently, Puijonsarvennenä is the only Iron Age burial site to have been excavated in the North Savo province. Peer reviewed Article in Journal/Newspaper Northern Finland HELDA – University of Helsinki Open Repository Cairn ENVELOPE(-57.083,-57.083,-63.500,-63.500) |
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In 2019, a metal detector hobbyist found an iron spearhead, a knife, and some burnt bones from an ambiguous stone structure situated on the scenic cape of Puijonsarvennenä in Kuopio. Archaeological excavation and sub- sequent analyses of the find material confirmed that the site was a single cremation burial, which was radiocarbon dated to 410–355 calBC, in the Pre-Roman Iron Age. The find material included several fragments of bone artefacts and a small amount of asbestos-tempered ceramics. The burial and its finds seem to indicate that the deceased person engaged in hunting and possibly fur trading, setting Puijonsarvennenä into a continuum with similar burial sites known from interior and northern Finland from the Early Bronze Age to the Late Iron Age. Currently, Puijonsarvennenä is the only Iron Age burial site to have been excavated in the North Savo province. Peer reviewed |
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A Pre-Roman Burial Site in Puijonsarvennenä, Kuopio, Eastern Finland: Preliminary Results and Interpretations |
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A Pre-Roman Burial Site in Puijonsarvennenä, Kuopio, Eastern Finland: Preliminary Results and Interpretations |
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A Pre-Roman Burial Site in Puijonsarvennenä, Kuopio, Eastern Finland: Preliminary Results and Interpretations |
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A Pre-Roman Burial Site in Puijonsarvennenä, Kuopio, Eastern Finland: Preliminary Results and Interpretations |
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A Pre-Roman Burial Site in Puijonsarvennenä, Kuopio, Eastern Finland: Preliminary Results and Interpretations |
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pre-roman burial site in puijonsarvennenä, kuopio, eastern finland: preliminary results and interpretations |
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Kunnas-Pusa , L , Knuutinen , T , Salo , K & Kirkinen , T 2022 , ' A Pre-Roman Burial Site in Puijonsarvennenä, Kuopio, Eastern Finland: Preliminary Results and Interpretations ' , Fennoscandia Archaeologica , vol. XXXIX , pp. 5-27 . < https://journal.fi/fennoscandiaarchaeologica/article/view/125721 > ORCID: /0000-0001-5572-4426/work/127503857 ORCID: /0000-0001-6408-2074/work/127505134 ORCID: /0000-0003-4621-9529/work/127509370 e544f7d5-7bd1-41e3-9693-0f8b103e91bb http://hdl.handle.net/10138/353547 |
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