Bear bones at Saami offering sites
Saami traditions related to bear hunting and bear burials are quite well known, both from written and archaeological sources. However, the Saami also included bears in their repeated rituals at offering sites, which has been less explored. In this article, we present the archaeological sources for t...
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ftunivtroemsoe:oai:munin.uit.no:10037/32357 2024-02-04T10:04:14+01:00 Bear bones at Saami offering sites Spangen, Marte Salmi, Anna-Kaisa Äikäs, Tiina Fjellström, Markus 2023-01 https://hdl.handle.net/10037/32357 https://doi.org/10.1484/M.TANE-EB.5.134351 eng eng Brepols Publishers Spangen, Salmi, Äikäs, Fjellström: Bear bones at Saami offering sites. In: Grimm O. Bear and Human: Facets of a Multi-Layered Relationship From Past to Recent Times with an Emphasis on Northern Europe , 2023. Brepols FRIDAID 2181383 https://doi.org/10.1484/M.TANE-EB.5.134351 978-2-503-60611-8 2736-7436 https://hdl.handle.net/10037/32357 openAccess Copyright 2023 The Author(s) Chapter Bokkapittel acceptedVersion 2023 ftunivtroemsoe https://doi.org/10.1484/M.TANE-EB.5.134351 2024-01-11T00:08:07Z Saami traditions related to bear hunting and bear burials are quite well known, both from written and archaeological sources. However, the Saami also included bears in their repeated rituals at offering sites, which has been less explored. In this article, we present the archaeological sources for this offering tradition. Further, we discuss the chronology and geography as well as the content and context of such archaeological finds. As with bear burials, the deposition of bear bones at offering sites has not been a uniform tradition in all Saami communities, which gives an interesting insight into how rituals can both bind a community together and create boundaries with other groups. Book Part saami University of Tromsø: Munin Open Research Archive 603 618 Turnhout, Belgium |
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Saami traditions related to bear hunting and bear burials are quite well known, both from written and archaeological sources. However, the Saami also included bears in their repeated rituals at offering sites, which has been less explored. In this article, we present the archaeological sources for this offering tradition. Further, we discuss the chronology and geography as well as the content and context of such archaeological finds. As with bear burials, the deposition of bear bones at offering sites has not been a uniform tradition in all Saami communities, which gives an interesting insight into how rituals can both bind a community together and create boundaries with other groups. |
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Spangen, Salmi, Äikäs, Fjellström: Bear bones at Saami offering sites. In: Grimm O. Bear and Human: Facets of a Multi-Layered Relationship From Past to Recent Times with an Emphasis on Northern Europe , 2023. Brepols FRIDAID 2181383 https://doi.org/10.1484/M.TANE-EB.5.134351 978-2-503-60611-8 2736-7436 https://hdl.handle.net/10037/32357 |
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