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PhD Thesis by Liisa Kunnas

Research paper thumbnail of The Furthest Past. Historiography and Conceptual History of Stone Age Archaeology in Finland c. 1700–1940

This study is focused on the emergence and development of the notion of the Stone Age in Finnish ... more This study is focused on the emergence and development of the notion of the Stone Age in Finnish scholarly circles, the ways the Stone Age and prehistory have been presented to the general public, and the role of the Stone Age in the discussions concerning the national and cultural identity of the Finns. The timeframe of the study begins in the early 18th century and ends with the Second World War. Central themes are the study of Finnish prehistory and Stone Age artefacts at the Academy of Turku in 1700–1827, the emergence of the terminology related to the Stone Age and prehistory in Finland in the course of the 19th century, and the image of the Stone Age in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, including its political dimensions. The source material consists of academic dissertations, newspaper articles, and books. Depictions, representations, and narratives of the Stone Age have been traced in the source material with theoretical and methodological frameworks of conceptual history, digital humanities, and narratology.

The thesis consists of a summary essay and four previously published articles. The articles discuss the conceptual history of the Stone Age in the European context and the pivotal role of ethnographic analogies in the recognition of Stone Age artefacts as ancient tools, archaeological interests, and prehistoric phenomena in the theses of the Academy of Turku, representations of the Stone Age aimed at the general public at the turn of the 20th century, and the political dimensions of Stone Age research related to ethnic identities and nationalism.

Stone Age artefacts and prehistoric structures were discussed in Finnish academic dissertations and newspaper articles in the 18th century, but there was little interest in the actual practice of prehistoric archaeology, like excavating. The most important ingredient of the notion of the Stone Age in its modern form is its long timeframe and temporal distance from the present, which have been gradually discovered from the mid-19th century onwards. Already in the 18th century, the interest aimed at the furthest past was entangled with and motivated by the quest to trace the origins of contemporary ethnic and cultural identities (Finnish, Scandinavian, Sámi). This then became the most prominent feature of archaeological research during the formation of national identities and nation-states. The distinct feature of the image of the Finnish Stone Age has throughout the timeframe of the study involved questions of Stone Age ethnicities, which have reflected the way in which Finnish identity has been discussed and negotiated in the present day.

Articles by Liisa Kunnas

Research paper thumbnail of ”Hankalaa lukea kaiken Raamatulla hujauttelun vuoksi”: H.G. Porthanin Vanhojen suomalaisten tietoperäisestä ja käytännöllisestä taikauskosta -teos Salakirjojen näköispainoksena

AURAICA. Scripta a Societate Porthan edita 15(1), 2024

Research paper thumbnail of The political Stone Age. Prehistoric ethnicities and Finnish national narratives

Fornvännen 118, 2023

The article examines depictions of the Stone Age in two Finnish books aimed at both archaeologist... more The article examines depictions of the Stone Age in two Finnish books aimed at both archaeologists and the public: Suomen kansan esihistoria (1894) by Väinö Wallin (Voionmaa), a historian and Social Democratic politician, and Suomen muinaisuus (1931) by A. M. Tallgren, the first professor of archaeology at the University of Helsinki. The Stone Age is examined from the viewpoint of identifying narratives related to the idea of the Finnish nation and the concept of Finnishness. The analysed texts reveal different strategies of connecting the Stone Age to the Finnish past, depending on the authors' respective opinions about the ethnicity of the Stone Age population. These opinions were affected by notions of cultural and racial hierarchies and the pressure to construct a national past. Late 19 th-century-early 20 th-century discussions and tensions regarding Finns, Sámi, and Scandinavians were reflected onto the past, and even the remote, ethnically ambiguous Stone Age was not left outside history politics. Some lasting "historical master narratives" about the Stone Age in Finland were created during the early 20 th century, which continue to affect its depictions even today.

Research paper thumbnail of Miten tutkia kadonnutta materiaalisuutta? Turun akatemian kokoelmat tutkimuskohteena

AURAICA Scripta a Societate Porthan edita 13, 2023

Research paper thumbnail of Muuttuvat käsitteet: Tiede ja arkitieto arkeologisia ilmiöitä nimeämässä

Research paper thumbnail of A Pre-Roman Burial Site in Puijonsarvennenä, Kuopio, Eastern Finland: Preliminary Results and Interpretations

Fennoscandia Archaeologica , 2022

In 2019, a metal detector hobbyist found an iron spearhead, a knife, and some burnt bones from an... more In 2019, a metal detector hobbyist found an iron spearhead, a knife, and some burnt bones from an ambiguous stone structure situated on the scenic cape of Puijonsarvennenä in Kuopio. Archaeological excavation and subsequent analyses of the find material confirmed that the site was a single cremation burial, which was radiocarbon dated to 410-355 calBC, in the Pre-Roman Iron Age. The find material included several fragments of bone artefacts and a small amount of asbestos-tempered ceramics. The burial and its finds seem to indicate that the deceased person engaged in hunting and possibly fur trading, setting Puijonsarvennenä into a continuum with similar burial sites known from interior and northern Finland from the Early Bronze Age to the Late Iron Age. Currently, Puijonsarvennenä is the only Iron Age burial site to have been excavated in the North Savo province.

Research paper thumbnail of Eighteenth-century visions of the Stone Age – Stone artefacts and the concept of the furthest past in theses published at the Academy of Turku in 1700–1828

1700-tal – Nordic Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies, 2021

Archaeological concepts of prehistory and the Stone Age are rooted in nineteenth-century scientif... more Archaeological concepts of prehistory and the Stone Age are rooted in nineteenth-century scientific discoveries, which extended the human past much further back in time than was previously thought. Without this deep past, the disciplines of archaeology and history would not be what they are today. However, when the division of prehistory into the ages of stone, bronze, and iron was introduced in 1836, it was already an old idea. Stone Age artefacts and the initial phase of human history were discussed in the eighteenth-century academic world, even though the periodisation of history was constructed differently. In the philosophy of the Enlightenment several ideas surfaced which were essential to the formation of archaeology as a scientific practice, and which still affect the way the prehistoric past is imagined. This article examines the concept of a prehistoric, furthest past in Finnish scientific texts, within the framework of eighteenth-century Swedish traditions of science and historiography. How did the scholars in the Academy of Turku view Stone Age artefacts that had a multi-faceted nature in the antiquarian tradition? In what way did their visions of the earliest phase of the Nordic past set up later nationalistic narratives about prehistory?

Research paper thumbnail of ”Kyllä tuon sais jo polttaa kun on tuommonen rähjänä”. Kulttuuriperinnön rakentumisen ja tutkimuksen kerrostumia Pohjois-Savossa

Suomen Museo - Finskt Museum, 2020

Pohjoissavolainen arkeologinen kulttuuriperintö on muodostunut, ja muodostuu, kulttuuriperintöpro... more Pohjoissavolainen arkeologinen kulttuuriperintö on muodostunut, ja muodostuu, kulttuuriperintöprosesseissa, joissa toimijoina ovat tutkijoiden lisäksi paikalliset ihmiset. Tutkimuksen kerrostumat ovat rakentaneet virallista näkemystä kulttuuriperinnöstä jo vuosisatojen ajan. Tuona aikana kansanvalistuksesta on siirrytty kohti kansalaistiedettä ja kansallisromanttisista muinaismuistoista kohti moniäänistä kulttuuriperintöä.

Research paper thumbnail of Function follows form? The role of analogies in discovering the Stone Age

Archaeology and Analogy: Papers from the Eighth Theoretical Seminar of the Baltic Archaeologists (BASE) held at the University of Helsinki and Tvärminne Zoological Station, Hanko, Finland, November 30th – December 2nd, 2017. Interarchaeologia 6, 2020

In 1723, Antoine de Jussieu presented his research to the French Academy of Sciences. He demonstr... more In 1723, Antoine de Jussieu presented his research to the French Academy of Sciences. He demonstrated how stone tools used by Caribbean and Canadian native populations uncannily resembled European ‘thunderbolts’, as Stone Age stone artefacts were known. Since the latter had similar appearance as the former, their origin and function must also be similar. Expanding the analogy, it could be presumed that European people had once been culturally similar to the native peoples of America. Although the archaeological and chronological concept of the Stone Age did not form until later, it already existed as a philosophical concept in relative chronology. Ideas of stone being used as raw material before metals, and the division of the past into successive technological epochs were discussed in the Antiquity, as well as during the subsequent centuries. However, ethnographic and technological analogies were essential in connecting the philosophical theory with the material record of the past. The analogy between Stone Age and the contemporary native populations expanded from technology to culture, having a lasting impact on the way Stone Age is perceived.

Research paper thumbnail of Kivikauden kuvia. Kaukaisimman menneisyyden representaatiot Suomi-kuvaa rakentamassa

Ennen ja nyt , 2018

Yksi Suomi-kuvan rakennusaineista on suomalainen, kansallinen ja yhteinen menneisyys. Suomen alue... more Yksi Suomi-kuvan rakennusaineista on suomalainen, kansallinen ja yhteinen menneisyys. Suomen alueella on ollut asutusta 10 000 vuotta, mutta suurimman osan tuosta ajasta muodostava kivikausi jää usein huomiotta Suomi-kuvan kuvastossa ja tarinoissa. Suomalaisen kivikauden ongelmana on ollut yleisestikin kauden ajallisen etäisyyden lisäksi sitkeä narratiivi, jossa suomalaisten esi-isät saapuvat Suomen alueelle vasta paljon kivikauden jälkeen. Kivikausi toimii usein huomaamatta tulkitsemishetken Suomi-kuvan peilinä. Kivikausi on mukana suomalaisen esihistorian esityksissä vaihtelevasti esimerkiksi Suomen tarinan ulkopuolisena alkunäytöksenä, maahantunkeutujien uhkaamana esisuomalaisena yhtenäiskulttuurina tai monikulttuurisena mutta silti homogeenisena yhteiskuntana.

Artikkelissa tarkastellaan viittä erilaista näkökulmaa suomalaiseen kivikauteen: neljää suurelle yleisölle suunnattua teosta 1800-luvun lopulta ja 1900-luvun alkuvuosikymmeniltä sekä uutta Kansallismuseon esihistorian näyttelyä. Kivikauden representaatioita verrataan myös yleiseurooppalaiseen kivikauden visualisoinnin perinteeseen. Ikonisen kivikauden kuvaston ja symboliikan taustalla vaikuttaa pitkän ajan ja monien kulttuurien kautta kumuloitunut kaukaisimpaan menneisyyteen ja sen vierauteen liittyvä kuvakieli.

Research paper thumbnail of Tärvellyt ja kaaputetut - Kivikautiset irtolöydöt Jaakkiman pitäjästä ja kivikauden esineiden keräily 1800-1900-lukujen vaihteessa. Muinaistutkija 4/2016, p. 2-17.

245 Stone Age artefacts were collected from local people in Jaakkima Parish (Ceded Karelia, now R... more 245 Stone Age artefacts were collected from local people in Jaakkima Parish (Ceded Karelia, now Russia) between 1874-1950. The artefacts are typical Stone Age stray finds: polished axes and adzes, with scarce information about their finding locations. Some of the artefacts had been found years, even generations, ago and been kept for their alleged magical properties. The belief of Stone Age artefacts as "thunderbolts", magical objects of supernatural origin, was still widespread in the Finnish countryside at the time. Some artefacts collected from Jaakkima show signs of magical practices: For example symbols like pentagrams are found scratched on surfaces. The impact of this kind of re-use on the accumulation of material and the context should be considered when studying older stray find material from the Stone Age.

Research paper thumbnail of Meijereitä ja taikakiviä - Kivikautta etsimässä Sortavalassa Laatokan pohjoispuolella. Muinaistutkija 4/2012, p. 24-39

Conflict archaeology by Liisa Kunnas

Research paper thumbnail of * Ahvola 1918: Archaeological Reconnaissance of a Finnish Civil War Battlefield (2009)

Journal of Conflict Archaeology, 2009

Books by Liisa Kunnas

Research paper thumbnail of Karjalan rahalöydöt – Myntfynd från Karelen. Suomen rahahistoria 2 – Maakuntainventointi / Finlands mynthistoria 2 – Landskapsinventeringen.

Research paper thumbnail of Uudenmaan rahalöydöt – Myntfynd från Nyland. Suomen rahahistoria 1 – Maakuntainventointi. Finlands mynthistoria 1 – Landskapsinventeringen.

Book Reviews by Liisa Kunnas

Research paper thumbnail of Asiantuntevia vinkkejä 1700-luvun lopun Turkuun suuntaaville aikamatkaajille

Research paper thumbnail of Book review: Tiedenainen peilissä. Arkeologian professori Ella Kivikosken elämä ja tutkimuskentät

Fennoscandia archaeologica, 2022

Research paper thumbnail of Eroon luolamiesmaineesta. Kotimainen populaariteos neandertalinihmisestä. Muinaistutkija 1/2016, p. 53-56.

Master's thesis by Liisa Kunnas

Research paper thumbnail of Tracing Stone Age on the Northwestern Shore of Lake Ladoga – Stray finds, the sites of Otsoinen Ylätalo and Meijeri I-III and the possibilities of Stone Age archaeology in the former parish of Sortavala

Articles aimed at the general public by Liisa Kunnas

Research paper thumbnail of Suojaavia ja parantavia voimia – Kivikautisten esineiden uusiokäyttö taikakaluina

Research paper thumbnail of The Furthest Past. Historiography and Conceptual History of Stone Age Archaeology in Finland c. 1700–1940

This study is focused on the emergence and development of the notion of the Stone Age in Finnish ... more This study is focused on the emergence and development of the notion of the Stone Age in Finnish scholarly circles, the ways the Stone Age and prehistory have been presented to the general public, and the role of the Stone Age in the discussions concerning the national and cultural identity of the Finns. The timeframe of the study begins in the early 18th century and ends with the Second World War. Central themes are the study of Finnish prehistory and Stone Age artefacts at the Academy of Turku in 1700–1827, the emergence of the terminology related to the Stone Age and prehistory in Finland in the course of the 19th century, and the image of the Stone Age in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, including its political dimensions. The source material consists of academic dissertations, newspaper articles, and books. Depictions, representations, and narratives of the Stone Age have been traced in the source material with theoretical and methodological frameworks of conceptual history, digital humanities, and narratology.

The thesis consists of a summary essay and four previously published articles. The articles discuss the conceptual history of the Stone Age in the European context and the pivotal role of ethnographic analogies in the recognition of Stone Age artefacts as ancient tools, archaeological interests, and prehistoric phenomena in the theses of the Academy of Turku, representations of the Stone Age aimed at the general public at the turn of the 20th century, and the political dimensions of Stone Age research related to ethnic identities and nationalism.

Stone Age artefacts and prehistoric structures were discussed in Finnish academic dissertations and newspaper articles in the 18th century, but there was little interest in the actual practice of prehistoric archaeology, like excavating. The most important ingredient of the notion of the Stone Age in its modern form is its long timeframe and temporal distance from the present, which have been gradually discovered from the mid-19th century onwards. Already in the 18th century, the interest aimed at the furthest past was entangled with and motivated by the quest to trace the origins of contemporary ethnic and cultural identities (Finnish, Scandinavian, Sámi). This then became the most prominent feature of archaeological research during the formation of national identities and nation-states. The distinct feature of the image of the Finnish Stone Age has throughout the timeframe of the study involved questions of Stone Age ethnicities, which have reflected the way in which Finnish identity has been discussed and negotiated in the present day.

Research paper thumbnail of ”Hankalaa lukea kaiken Raamatulla hujauttelun vuoksi”: H.G. Porthanin Vanhojen suomalaisten tietoperäisestä ja käytännöllisestä taikauskosta -teos Salakirjojen näköispainoksena

AURAICA. Scripta a Societate Porthan edita 15(1), 2024

Research paper thumbnail of The political Stone Age. Prehistoric ethnicities and Finnish national narratives

Fornvännen 118, 2023

The article examines depictions of the Stone Age in two Finnish books aimed at both archaeologist... more The article examines depictions of the Stone Age in two Finnish books aimed at both archaeologists and the public: Suomen kansan esihistoria (1894) by Väinö Wallin (Voionmaa), a historian and Social Democratic politician, and Suomen muinaisuus (1931) by A. M. Tallgren, the first professor of archaeology at the University of Helsinki. The Stone Age is examined from the viewpoint of identifying narratives related to the idea of the Finnish nation and the concept of Finnishness. The analysed texts reveal different strategies of connecting the Stone Age to the Finnish past, depending on the authors' respective opinions about the ethnicity of the Stone Age population. These opinions were affected by notions of cultural and racial hierarchies and the pressure to construct a national past. Late 19 th-century-early 20 th-century discussions and tensions regarding Finns, Sámi, and Scandinavians were reflected onto the past, and even the remote, ethnically ambiguous Stone Age was not left outside history politics. Some lasting "historical master narratives" about the Stone Age in Finland were created during the early 20 th century, which continue to affect its depictions even today.

Research paper thumbnail of Miten tutkia kadonnutta materiaalisuutta? Turun akatemian kokoelmat tutkimuskohteena

AURAICA Scripta a Societate Porthan edita 13, 2023

Research paper thumbnail of Muuttuvat käsitteet: Tiede ja arkitieto arkeologisia ilmiöitä nimeämässä

Research paper thumbnail of A Pre-Roman Burial Site in Puijonsarvennenä, Kuopio, Eastern Finland: Preliminary Results and Interpretations

Fennoscandia Archaeologica , 2022

In 2019, a metal detector hobbyist found an iron spearhead, a knife, and some burnt bones from an... more In 2019, a metal detector hobbyist found an iron spearhead, a knife, and some burnt bones from an ambiguous stone structure situated on the scenic cape of Puijonsarvennenä in Kuopio. Archaeological excavation and subsequent analyses of the find material confirmed that the site was a single cremation burial, which was radiocarbon dated to 410-355 calBC, in the Pre-Roman Iron Age. The find material included several fragments of bone artefacts and a small amount of asbestos-tempered ceramics. The burial and its finds seem to indicate that the deceased person engaged in hunting and possibly fur trading, setting Puijonsarvennenä into a continuum with similar burial sites known from interior and northern Finland from the Early Bronze Age to the Late Iron Age. Currently, Puijonsarvennenä is the only Iron Age burial site to have been excavated in the North Savo province.

Research paper thumbnail of Eighteenth-century visions of the Stone Age – Stone artefacts and the concept of the furthest past in theses published at the Academy of Turku in 1700–1828

1700-tal – Nordic Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies, 2021

Archaeological concepts of prehistory and the Stone Age are rooted in nineteenth-century scientif... more Archaeological concepts of prehistory and the Stone Age are rooted in nineteenth-century scientific discoveries, which extended the human past much further back in time than was previously thought. Without this deep past, the disciplines of archaeology and history would not be what they are today. However, when the division of prehistory into the ages of stone, bronze, and iron was introduced in 1836, it was already an old idea. Stone Age artefacts and the initial phase of human history were discussed in the eighteenth-century academic world, even though the periodisation of history was constructed differently. In the philosophy of the Enlightenment several ideas surfaced which were essential to the formation of archaeology as a scientific practice, and which still affect the way the prehistoric past is imagined. This article examines the concept of a prehistoric, furthest past in Finnish scientific texts, within the framework of eighteenth-century Swedish traditions of science and historiography. How did the scholars in the Academy of Turku view Stone Age artefacts that had a multi-faceted nature in the antiquarian tradition? In what way did their visions of the earliest phase of the Nordic past set up later nationalistic narratives about prehistory?

Research paper thumbnail of ”Kyllä tuon sais jo polttaa kun on tuommonen rähjänä”. Kulttuuriperinnön rakentumisen ja tutkimuksen kerrostumia Pohjois-Savossa

Suomen Museo - Finskt Museum, 2020

Pohjoissavolainen arkeologinen kulttuuriperintö on muodostunut, ja muodostuu, kulttuuriperintöpro... more Pohjoissavolainen arkeologinen kulttuuriperintö on muodostunut, ja muodostuu, kulttuuriperintöprosesseissa, joissa toimijoina ovat tutkijoiden lisäksi paikalliset ihmiset. Tutkimuksen kerrostumat ovat rakentaneet virallista näkemystä kulttuuriperinnöstä jo vuosisatojen ajan. Tuona aikana kansanvalistuksesta on siirrytty kohti kansalaistiedettä ja kansallisromanttisista muinaismuistoista kohti moniäänistä kulttuuriperintöä.

Research paper thumbnail of Function follows form? The role of analogies in discovering the Stone Age

Archaeology and Analogy: Papers from the Eighth Theoretical Seminar of the Baltic Archaeologists (BASE) held at the University of Helsinki and Tvärminne Zoological Station, Hanko, Finland, November 30th – December 2nd, 2017. Interarchaeologia 6, 2020

In 1723, Antoine de Jussieu presented his research to the French Academy of Sciences. He demonstr... more In 1723, Antoine de Jussieu presented his research to the French Academy of Sciences. He demonstrated how stone tools used by Caribbean and Canadian native populations uncannily resembled European ‘thunderbolts’, as Stone Age stone artefacts were known. Since the latter had similar appearance as the former, their origin and function must also be similar. Expanding the analogy, it could be presumed that European people had once been culturally similar to the native peoples of America. Although the archaeological and chronological concept of the Stone Age did not form until later, it already existed as a philosophical concept in relative chronology. Ideas of stone being used as raw material before metals, and the division of the past into successive technological epochs were discussed in the Antiquity, as well as during the subsequent centuries. However, ethnographic and technological analogies were essential in connecting the philosophical theory with the material record of the past. The analogy between Stone Age and the contemporary native populations expanded from technology to culture, having a lasting impact on the way Stone Age is perceived.

Research paper thumbnail of Kivikauden kuvia. Kaukaisimman menneisyyden representaatiot Suomi-kuvaa rakentamassa

Ennen ja nyt , 2018

Yksi Suomi-kuvan rakennusaineista on suomalainen, kansallinen ja yhteinen menneisyys. Suomen alue... more Yksi Suomi-kuvan rakennusaineista on suomalainen, kansallinen ja yhteinen menneisyys. Suomen alueella on ollut asutusta 10 000 vuotta, mutta suurimman osan tuosta ajasta muodostava kivikausi jää usein huomiotta Suomi-kuvan kuvastossa ja tarinoissa. Suomalaisen kivikauden ongelmana on ollut yleisestikin kauden ajallisen etäisyyden lisäksi sitkeä narratiivi, jossa suomalaisten esi-isät saapuvat Suomen alueelle vasta paljon kivikauden jälkeen. Kivikausi toimii usein huomaamatta tulkitsemishetken Suomi-kuvan peilinä. Kivikausi on mukana suomalaisen esihistorian esityksissä vaihtelevasti esimerkiksi Suomen tarinan ulkopuolisena alkunäytöksenä, maahantunkeutujien uhkaamana esisuomalaisena yhtenäiskulttuurina tai monikulttuurisena mutta silti homogeenisena yhteiskuntana.

Artikkelissa tarkastellaan viittä erilaista näkökulmaa suomalaiseen kivikauteen: neljää suurelle yleisölle suunnattua teosta 1800-luvun lopulta ja 1900-luvun alkuvuosikymmeniltä sekä uutta Kansallismuseon esihistorian näyttelyä. Kivikauden representaatioita verrataan myös yleiseurooppalaiseen kivikauden visualisoinnin perinteeseen. Ikonisen kivikauden kuvaston ja symboliikan taustalla vaikuttaa pitkän ajan ja monien kulttuurien kautta kumuloitunut kaukaisimpaan menneisyyteen ja sen vierauteen liittyvä kuvakieli.

Research paper thumbnail of Tärvellyt ja kaaputetut - Kivikautiset irtolöydöt Jaakkiman pitäjästä ja kivikauden esineiden keräily 1800-1900-lukujen vaihteessa. Muinaistutkija 4/2016, p. 2-17.

245 Stone Age artefacts were collected from local people in Jaakkima Parish (Ceded Karelia, now R... more 245 Stone Age artefacts were collected from local people in Jaakkima Parish (Ceded Karelia, now Russia) between 1874-1950. The artefacts are typical Stone Age stray finds: polished axes and adzes, with scarce information about their finding locations. Some of the artefacts had been found years, even generations, ago and been kept for their alleged magical properties. The belief of Stone Age artefacts as "thunderbolts", magical objects of supernatural origin, was still widespread in the Finnish countryside at the time. Some artefacts collected from Jaakkima show signs of magical practices: For example symbols like pentagrams are found scratched on surfaces. The impact of this kind of re-use on the accumulation of material and the context should be considered when studying older stray find material from the Stone Age.

Research paper thumbnail of Meijereitä ja taikakiviä - Kivikautta etsimässä Sortavalassa Laatokan pohjoispuolella. Muinaistutkija 4/2012, p. 24-39

Research paper thumbnail of * Ahvola 1918: Archaeological Reconnaissance of a Finnish Civil War Battlefield (2009)

Journal of Conflict Archaeology, 2009

Research paper thumbnail of Karjalan rahalöydöt – Myntfynd från Karelen. Suomen rahahistoria 2 – Maakuntainventointi / Finlands mynthistoria 2 – Landskapsinventeringen.

Research paper thumbnail of Uudenmaan rahalöydöt – Myntfynd från Nyland. Suomen rahahistoria 1 – Maakuntainventointi. Finlands mynthistoria 1 – Landskapsinventeringen.

Research paper thumbnail of Asiantuntevia vinkkejä 1700-luvun lopun Turkuun suuntaaville aikamatkaajille

Research paper thumbnail of Book review: Tiedenainen peilissä. Arkeologian professori Ella Kivikosken elämä ja tutkimuskentät

Fennoscandia archaeologica, 2022

Research paper thumbnail of Eroon luolamiesmaineesta. Kotimainen populaariteos neandertalinihmisestä. Muinaistutkija 1/2016, p. 53-56.

Research paper thumbnail of Tracing Stone Age on the Northwestern Shore of Lake Ladoga – Stray finds, the sites of Otsoinen Ylätalo and Meijeri I-III and the possibilities of Stone Age archaeology in the former parish of Sortavala

Research paper thumbnail of Suojaavia ja parantavia voimia – Kivikautisten esineiden uusiokäyttö taikakaluina

Research paper thumbnail of Kätketyt ja kadotetut kolikot – rahan historiaa Suomessa

Mitä Missä Milloin 2023, 2022

Research paper thumbnail of Yhteiskunnallisia epäkohtia, "apinjoita eli metsäihmisiä" ja epäonninen leijonankesyttäjä - Poimintoja 200 vuoden takaisista Turun Wiikko-Sanomista

Research paper thumbnail of Kuinka luolamiehet kansoittivat kivikauden - Mielikuvien ja myyttien arkeologiaa

Research paper thumbnail of Miten tutkia kadonnutta materiaalisuutta?

Research paper thumbnail of Kuinka luolamiehet kansoittivat kivikauden - Mielikuvien ja myyttien arkeologiaa

Research paper thumbnail of Function follows form? : The role of analogies in discovering the Stone Age

Research paper thumbnail of Eroon luolamiesmaineesta - Kotimainen populaariteos neandertalinihmisestä

Research paper thumbnail of Kivikauden kuvia: – Kaukaisimman menneisyyden representaatiot Suomi-kuvaa rakentamassa

Ennen ja Nyt: Historian Tietosanomat, Sep 1, 2018

Yksi Suomi-kuvan rakennusaineista on suomalainen, kansallinen ja yhteinen menneisyys. Suomen alue... more Yksi Suomi-kuvan rakennusaineista on suomalainen, kansallinen ja yhteinen menneisyys. Suomen alueella on ollut asutusta 10 000 vuotta, mutta suurimman osan tuosta ajasta muodostava kivikausi jää usein huomiotta Suomi-kuvan kuvastossa ja tarinoissa. Suomalaisen kivikauden ongelmana on ollut yleisestikin kauden ajallisen etäisyyden lisäksi sitkeä narratiivi, jossa suomalaisten esi-isät saapuvat Suomen alueelle vasta paljon kivikauden jälkeen. Kivikausi toimii usein huomaamatta tulkitsemishetken Suomi-kuvan peilinä. Kivikausi on mukana suomalaisen esihistorian esityksissä vaihtelevasti esimerkiksi Suomen tarinan ulkopuolisena alkunäytöksenä, maahantunkeutujien uhkaamana esisuomalaisena yhtenäiskulttuurina tai monikulttuurisena mutta silti homogeenisena yhteiskuntana. Artikkelissa tarkastellaan viittä erilaista näkökulmaa suomalaiseen kivikauteen: neljää suurelle yleisölle suunnattua teosta 1800-luvun lopulta ja 1900-luvun alkuvuosikymmeniltä sekä uutta Kansallismuseon esihistorian näyttelyä. Kivikauden representaatioita verrataan myös yleiseurooppalaiseen kivikauden visualisoinnin perinteeseen. Ikonisen kivikauden kuvaston ja symboliikan taustalla vaikuttaa pitkän ajan ja monien kulttuurien kautta kumuloitunut kaukaisimpaan menneisyyteen ja sen vierauteen liittyvä kuvakieli.

Research paper thumbnail of Kivikauden kuvia

Ennen ja Nyt: Historian Tietosanomat, 2018

Research paper thumbnail of Eighteenth-century visions of the Stone Age

Sjuttonhundratal /, Jul 2, 2021

Archaeological concepts of prehistory and the Stone Age are rooted in nineteenth-century scientif... more Archaeological concepts of prehistory and the Stone Age are rooted in nineteenth-century scientific discoveries, which extended the human past much further back in time than was previously thought. Without this deep past, the disciplines of archaeology and history would not be what they are today. However, when the division of prehistory into the ages of stone, bronze, and iron was introduced in 1836, it was already an old idea. Stone Age artefacts and the initial phase of human history were discussed in the eighteenth-century academic world, even though the periodisation of history was constructed differently. In the philosophy of the Enlightenment several ideas surfaced which were essential to the formation of archaeology as a scientific practice, and which still affect the way the prehistoric past is imagined. This article examines the concept of a prehistoric, furthest past in Finnish scientific texts, within the framework of eighteenth-century Swedish traditions of science and historiography. How did the scholars in the Academy of Turku view Stone Age artefacts that had a multi-faceted nature in the antiquarian tradition? In what way did their visions of the earliest phase of the Nordic past set up later nationalistic narratives about prehistory?