Late Iron Age transculturalism in the northern “periphery”: understanding the long-term prehistoric occupational area of Viinivaara E, Finland

Hakamäki, Ville

doi:10.1080/08003831.2016.1154674

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“…Especially pertaining to the eastern part of the current casei.e. the region that today lies within the borders of Finlandthe conception of a core-directed exploitation and settlement during the Middle Ages has been voiced as recently as 2015 in a general review of the prehistory and Middle Ages of Finland (Haggrén 2015, 420-421;Halinen 2015, 424), though elsewhere in the book the active role of local societies during the time is acknowledged as well (Wessman & Raninen 2015, 361-363;also Kuusela 2015;Hakamäki 2016;Kuusela et al 2016).…”

Section: Northern Fennoscandiamentioning

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“…Following the analyses of the archaeologists Inga Serning (1960), Inger Zachrisson (1984, Matti Huurre (1983, Inga-Maria Mulk (1994;, Helena Taskinen (1998), Eija Ojanlatva (2003), Julie Lund (2015) and Ville Hakamäki (Hakamäki 2016), Table 1 presents several archaeological assemblages (see Figure 2) depicting the typological provenance of the artefacts from medieval sites in the interior Fennoscandia. The artefacts from these sites rarely point towards one region, but instead assemblages tend to signify contacts towards east, west and south.…”

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“…This is demonstrated by the excavated site of Viinivaaran itäpää (Figure 3)located at the eastern end of a prominent ridge which can be used as a route to reach the Bothnian Bay coast as it connects to Kiiminkijoki River in the north and Oulujoki River in the southwhere a cremation burial and several dwellings have been documented. Artefactual evidence points towards southwestern Finland and Russia but also includes objects linking the site towards west (Hakamäki 2016).…”

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Unhierarchical and Hierarchical Core‐Periphery Relations: North Fennoscandian Trade Network from the Middle Ages to the Post‐Sixteenth Century

Kuusela

Nurmi

Hakamäki

2018

American Anthropologist

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Equally disturbing for the critics has been the economic-deterministic approach of the theory and the following disregard of complexities of socio-political structures and their nuances, which may manifest for example as syncretism and creolisation (Webster 1997; 2005), bilateral borrowing and adaptation of cultural elements (Price 2002), selective adaptation, abandonment and re-adaptation of cultural elements (Webster 1999; Nurmi 2009; Kuusela et al. 2016) or simply as internal factors within a society that drive cultural change forward (Stein 1999; 2002). Put simply, the critics point out that the theory enforces a "one size fits all"-model on a sweeping manner ignoring local unique circumstances and resulting historical processes (McGuire 1996, 51; Galaty 2011, 4). Alternatives and amendments Colin Renfrew was among the early and arguably most famous critics of the use of the worldsystem theory in archaeological research, and he presented an alternative model, which he termed peer polity interaction (Renfrew 1986). Peer polity interaction, like world-system theory (from an archaeological perspective), tackles the problem of culture change and interregional interaction, and like world-system theory it, too, acknowledges that the latter is an integral part in these dynamics, and it shares with the world-system theory a systemic approach to the relations of human societies (McGuire 1996, 54). Where it significantly differs is that it does not acknowledge a power asymmetry or a dominative relationship between interacting parties but, like its name denotes, assumes such interactions take place between autonomous peers (Renfrew 1986, 1).

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