Härdar och husgrunder : Arkeologi i det samiska kulturlandskapet i Syd- och Mellansverige

• Main Authors: Björck, Maria, Blennå, Inga, Monié Nordin, Jonas, Ulfhielm, Bo, Wehlin, Joakim
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: Swedish
• Published: Dalarnas museum, Falun, Sverige 2021
• Subjects: Archaeology; Arkeologi; History; Historia; Sámi
• Online Access: http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-486510

Hearths and House foundations: Archaeology in the Sámi cultural landscape of southern andmiddle Sweden: This paper deals with the physical traces of Sámi past in southern andcentral Sweden. From the Norse sagas, and from archaeological sources, there is a mani-fold of evidence of Sámi–Norse interaction and of Sámi presence, and habitation in cen-tral and southern Scandinavia from the Late Iron Age to the Middle Ages. From the earlymodern period there are diverse written sources addressing Sámi habitation in southernScandinavia, and from the 18th century we know of the so-called sockenlappsystemet,an ethnically based, indenture service employing Sámi people. To what degree these earlymodern Sámi kept, and developed traditional practices, has until recently been largelyunknown. Through a combination of sources and methods, from archival studies to fieldsurveys, and excavations, this paper proposes that a strong and continuous developmentof Sámi traditions and practices, though the use of landscape and material culture is vi-sible well into the end of the 19th century