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This essay deals with the study of the ethnolinguistic past of the Saami. Another aim is to reflect on different strategies and interactions between Saami societies and agricultural communities. This silence makes or contributes to keeping old myths about Saami history from the end of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries alive in themajority society today.The aim of this chapter is to look across national borders to provide a brief summary of history based on what we (think we) know and have discussed as important for the understanding of the South Saami’s prehistory from 4000 BC to 1000 AD. This only increases the already asymmetric relations for the Saami and keeps teachers, politicians and other people in the majority societies in the dark when it comes to the long lines of Saami history on the Scandinavian Peninsula, what I call a power of silence. Today there is a gap between Saami history produced according to written sources and Saami history based on archaeological material. This chapter calls for a dialogue on Saami history with a higher degree of cooperation between archaeologists and historians than what has been the case up to now, which is necessary if we are to trying to understand the gaps in time. An open access version of the whole book is available at /isbn9514281411/isbn9514281411.pdf" The project’s on-going research is also shortly described. This paper reports on the results achieved in these studies as well as surveys and excavations conducted during the field seasons 1997–2004.
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In the third study the relationships between place names, landscape, and the people of the area were analysed to find out the way in which place names carry cultural information from one generation to another. The second study involved an exploration of the operational sequence at a quartz knapping floor. The first one deals with meat caches used in the area during the late prehistoric and early modern times. Three studies have been completed in the project. The time span for this project reaches from the Mesolithic till the present-day. "The Báišduottar–Paistunturi project studies the prehistory and history as well as the building and hunting traditions, the cultural and linguistic character and local folklore of the Báišduottar–Paistunturi wilderness area in Northern Finnish Lapland. Finally, phyloge-netic evidence confirms the widespread contacts between the Sámi and others as well as the mutual influence between groups. The Saami siida system of relatively small groups opened them to outside influence from Proto-Sámi speakers. There are numerous examples of mutually beneficial contacts between Sámi ancestors and other dwellers on the Scandinavian peninsula for example, the Sámi produced commodities that were in demand among Germanic (Norwegians, Swedes) peoples living in Scandinavia. The present paper finds anthropological, archaeological and genetic evidence that helps corroborate Aikio's theory. that speakers of Proto-Sámi merged with and assimilated ancient hunter-gath-erers who had long inhabited the interior of the Scandinavian peninsula and whom Aikio calls Palaeo-Europeans.
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How did they come to speak a Finno-Ugric language? A promising explanation has recently been put forth by Ante Aikio, viz. The question of the origins of the Sámi people of Northern Scandinavia and Russia has long been contentious.