The Iron age settlement of Arctic Norway: a study in the expansion of European Iron Age culture within the Arctic Circle -- vol. I,  Early Iron Age (Roman and migration periods)

Sjøvold, Thorleif

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The Iron age settlement of Arctic Norway: a study in the expansion of European Iron Age culture within the Arctic Circle -- vol. I, Early Iron Age (Roman and migration periods)

Norwegian Universities Press • 10 (1) • Published In 1962 • Pages: xvi, 253 , plates, 274

By: Sjøvold, Thorleif.

Abstract
The purpose of this study is to present data on the history of human settlements in North Norway during the Iron Age -- the Roman to Viking Periods -- from approximately 1999 B.P. - 1400 B.P. (1 A.D.-600 A.D.). The basis of this study is the analysis of the Iron Age artifacts in the Trondheim and Tromsö museums which were obtained from graves and stray finds in northern Norway by Nicolaissen, Gjessing, Lund, Simonsen and others, during the late nineteenth to mid twentieth centuries. The analyzed data are systematically arranged in the text according to the district from which they came -- Helgeland, Salten, Lofoten-Vesteralen, North and South Troms, and Finnmark. Much of the information in the document involves discussions of the ceramics, ornaments, tools, weapons, decorative styles, and materials used in the construction of these artifacts. There is little data on physical anthropology since most of the skeletal remains found in the graves had badly deteriorated in time.

Burial practices and funerals

Chronologies and culture sequences

Typologies and classifications

Scandinavian Iron Age

HRAF PubDate

2002

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