Etikett: Sami History
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The Pittfall traps at Västanbäck-Kortingön
En svensk version av texten finns under den engelska. English: The Pittfall traps at Västanbäck-Kortingön On my trip to the most northern part of Scandinavia during the summer of 2024, I chose to take a break 16 km northeast of Junsele along road 90 at a place called Västanbäck-Kortingön to stretch my legs. The driving…
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Sámi Museum and Nature Centre Siida in Inari
So I have decided to branch out the blog and also include museums and portable antiquities. It feels natural to do so as they are great places to explore the finds and the culture of the people that created the sites that I normally visit and write about. They also deserve to get some free…
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Taatsin Seita
Far to the north in the Finnish Lapland lies the village of Pokka. A very small place in the middle of one of Europes wildest places between Kittilä and Inari. On the steep side of lake Taatsijärvi with its calm, almost black water stands a mighty peculiar looking cliff measuring 10 meters tall. This cliff…
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The Rock Pantings at Flatruet
This post is about a subject that I haven’t written about before, rock paintings. This is because they are quite rare here in Sweden with only 52 known sites across the country. Most of them are found in the northern parts of Sweden and a few in Värmland and Bohuslän. A large concentration of them…
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The Rock Art at Alta
This summer i visited the UNESCO world heritage site of Hjemmeluft in Alta, Nothern Norway. The wider area of Alta made it on the list in 1985 and the rock carvings or petroglyphs here was by then fairly newly discovered. The first ones were discovered in 1973. There are a total of around 6000 different…
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Ceavccageađge – Mortensnes
Sometimes you find places you didn’t know that you were looking for, and for me Mortensnes was just such a place. I was traveling in my van along a small road in spectacular landscape on the Varangerhalvøya when I saw a sign indicating a site of cultural heritage. So I decided to stop to check…
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