Casting No Shadow: Overlapping Soilscapes of European-Indigenous Interaction in Northern Sweden

• Main Author: Green, Heather F.
• Other Authors: Simpson, Ian, PhD funded by The Leverhulme Trust, School of Natural Sciences, Biological and Environmental Sciences
• Format: Doctoral or Postdoctoral Thesis
• Language: English
• Published: University of Stirling 2012
• Subjects: soil; archaeology; Sweden; Sami; Saami; Sámi; geoarchaeology; thin section; micromorphology; chemical analysis; magnetic susceptibility; podzol; European; cultural indicators; palynology; entomology; plaggen; settlers; pastoralism; reindeer husbandry; trace; northern; anthropogenic; hunter gatherer; settlement; coprolite; phytolith; SEM; Scanning Electron Microscope; SEM/EDX; Energy-dispersive X-ray spectroscopy; pH; Sami (European people) Sweden; Northern History; Northern Antiquities; Paine; Northern Sweden; saami; sami
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/1893/13133; http://dspace.stir.ac.uk/bitstream/1893/13133/1/H._Green_-_Updated_Thesis_FINAL.pdf

The Sámi’s past activities have been documented historically from a European perspective, and more recently from an anthropological viewpoint, giving a generalised observation of the Sámi, during the study period of AD200-AD1800, as semi-nomadic hunter gatherers, with several theories suggesting tha...