A5023287364- Archaeology and ancient environmental studies
- Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology
- Historical and Archaeological Studies
- Ancient and Medieval Archaeology Studies
- Forensic Anthropology and Bioarchaeology Studies
- Indigenous Studies and Ecology
- Forensic and Genetic Research
- Paleopathology and ancient diseases
- Archaeology and Rock Art Studies
- Isotope Analysis in Ecology
- Human-Animal Interaction Studies
- Research in Social Sciences
- Pacific and Southeast Asian Studies
- Image Processing and 3D Reconstruction
- Animal Genetics and Reproduction
- Historical and Cultural Archaeology Studies
- Linguistics and language evolution
- Geographies of human-animal interactions
- Reproductive biology and impacts on aquatic species
- Rabbits: Nutrition, Reproduction, Health
- Maritime and Coastal Archaeology
- Veterinary Equine Medical Research
- Marine and environmental studies
- Action Observation and Synchronization
- Sperm and Testicular Function
University of Helsinki
2015-2025
Helsinki Art Museum
2025
University of Tartu
2007-2021
Institute of History and Archaeology
2020
Helsinki Institute for Information Technology
2019
Aalto University
2018-2019
Tampere University
2019
The conventional 'Neolithic package' comprised animals and plants originally domesticated in the Near East. As farming spread on a generally northwest trajectory across Europe, early pastoralists would have been faced with challenge of making viable regions which organisms were poorly adapted to providing optimal yields or even surviving. Hence, it has long debated whether Neolithic economies ever established at modern limits agriculture. Here, we examine food residues pottery, testing...
Abstract A re-examination of animal tooth pendants from Mesolithic (c. 9000–5000 BC in Lithuania) graves at Donkalnis (western revealed one engraved specimen. Among the hundreds reported for this period eastern Baltic, engravings are rare. The discovery offers new insights into human-animal relationships reflected northern forager burial traditions.
Dogs (Canis familiaris) are the first animals to be domesticated by humans and only ones mobile hunter-gatherers. Wolves were both persistent, pack hunters of large prey. They species competing over resources in partially overlapping ecological niches capable killing each other. How could possibly have a competitive species? Here we present new hypothesis based on food/resource partitioning between incipient wolves/dogs. Humans not fully adapted carnivorous diet; human consumption meat is...
Recent archaeological studies reveal the importance of birds in prehistoric North-European hunter-fisher-gatherer burial practices. In this article I describe two examples bird species at hunter-gatherer burials: Eurasian jay (Garrulus glandarius) Middle Neolithic Zvejnieki site northern Latvia, and osprey (Pandion haliaetus) Late Mesolithic Yuzhniy Oleniy Ostrov western Russia. suggest that bone finds their contexts indicate a ideology can be interpreted as representing totemism shamanism....
During the Mesolithic and Neolithic, foragers dwelling in Eastern Baltic, Scandinavia Fennoscandia regions buried some of their dead on lake islands or other coastal sites. Based ethnographic accounts, these sites are often understood as liminal places where water separates lands living. In this paper, we take a more relational view place suggest that particular combination spatial perception landscape dynamic nature might have contributed to social agency places, resulting use for ritual...
The effects of bio-adaptation-based visual cues in conveying affective information was studied while conducting social meditation a virtual reality (VR) environment. In laboratory study, 22 dyads practiced short duration, modified version empathy-evoking compassion meditation. immersive VR provided electroencephalography (EEG) -based real-time feedback, as changing color, on the user's brain activation; breathing rate users visualized movement cue. addition, synchronization feedback signals...
Paleodietary research is a complex field, which requires large sets of background information. Owing to increasing interest and activity in the substantial amount archaeological isotope baseline data exist for Northern Europe, consisting mainly animal bone collagen δ13C, δ15N, δ34S values. However, are scattered into dozens publications written multiple languages less-accessible formats, making laborious use. This article presents first compilation work this data, open access dIANA database...
Abstract More than 4300 Eurasian elk ( Alces alces ) incisors, most of them pendants, were found in 84 burials the Late Mesolithic cemetery Yuzhniy Oleniy Ostrov, Northwest Russia. We analysed manufacture techniques teeth (4014), collection Peter Great Museum Anthropology and Ethnography, St Petersburg. A striking observation is that these pendants similar all burials. Teeth worked by carving one or several grooves around root tip. In addition to grooved ones, a number not at all. The...
Levänluhta is a unique archaeological site with the remains of nearly hundred Iron Age individuals found from water burial in Ostrobothnia, Finland. The strongest climatic downturn Common Era, resembling great Fimbulvinter Norse mythology, hit these people during 6th century AD. This study establishes chronological, dietary, and livelihood synthesis on this population based stable carbon nitrogen isotopic radiocarbon analyses human remains, supported by multidisciplinary evidence....
The Finnhorse was established as a breed more than 110 years ago by combining local Finnish landraces. Since its foundation, the has experienced both strong directional selection, especially for size and colour, severe population bottlenecks that are connected with initial foundation subsequent changes in agricultural forestry practices. Here, we used sequences of mitochondrial control region genomic single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) to estimate genetic diversity differentiation four...
Reindeer herding emerged among the indigenous Sámi of Northern Fennoscandia between ca. 800 and 1500 CE. While details reindeer domestication process are still actively debated, it has been hypothesized that transition to affected ritual practice, especially animal offerings given at various sacred sites. To explore this hypothesis, we analyzed DNA from bone samples dating 1200–1700 CE offering sites located in present-day Finland as well originating ancient dwelling site Southern Kola...
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Summary Today, Germanic languages, including German, English, Frisian, Dutch and the Nordic are widely spoken in northwest Europe. However, key aspects of assumed arrival diversification this linguistic group remain contentious 1–3 . By adding 712 new ancient human genomes we find an archaeologically elusive population entering Sweden from Baltic region by around 4000 BP. This became widespread throughout Scandinavia 3500 BP, matching contemporaneous distribution Palaeo-Germanic, Bronze Age...
Abstract One of the most crucial issues in study human–animal relations is power humans over animal death and how it has been processed culturally by ways carcasses have treated. In this article, post-domestic phase entered investigating burial working horses Finnish countryside during 19th early 20th centuries. Toward that end, 115 horse burials, 134 cemeteries, 61 places or kill sites were examined through interviews with local people, a search literature place names. Six excavated several...
Strung rattles of teeth, shells and hooves have traditionally been thought to be among the earliest musical instruments. These sound producers, which are suspended from neck, arms, legs or clothing, often used highlight dancing. This study seeks explore whether similar can traced northern European Middle Neolithic. The research material comprised fifty-three animal tooth pendants graves at Ajvide, Gotland, Sweden (c. 2900–2300 cal. bc). Microscopic analysis showed that Ajvide well-worn...
In this paper, we introduce the first evidence of use human bone for making pendants in Northeast Europe. Twelve 37 studied made long splinters turned out to be bone. Here, present ZooMS (Zooarchaeology by Mass Spectrometry) identifications artefacts and their traceological analysis, discuss implications archaeology Mesolithic burial practices. Our results indicate that raw material some items was a fresh or semi-fresh state before pendants. They were used they placed into graves, most...
The wetland find in Levänluhta (western Finland) consists of unburnt, mixed up remains from almost 100 human individuals along with artefacts and animal bones. This spring site, a small lake at the time use ( ad 300–800), has been investigated archaeologically late nineteenth century onwards. An impressive array finds, including precious artefacts, is on display National Museum Finland. However, material not previously subjected to systematic research clarify who these people were, why they...
In a novel experimental setting, we augmented variation of traditional compassion meditation with our custom built VR environment for multiple concurrent users. The system incorporates respiration and brainwave based biofeedback that enables responsiveness to the shared physiological states presence another user's avatar in virtual space supported low level social interactions provided active targets evoked compassion. We enhanced interoception deep empathetic processes involved real time...