FRAM FORUM 2016
From the excavation of the Finnes site on Ingøy, Vest-Finnmark county, Norway, in 2011. A fine joint proxy site that was inhabited 400 – 200 BC (Early Metal Age) and 1270 – 1400 AD (Medieval times). Bones and organic artefacts are well-preserved in the shell-sand. Associate professor Stephen Wickler from Tromsø University Museum is seen excavating the site.
Test-pitting a joint proxy site from the Younger Stone Age (5000-6000 years before present) situated on a raised, fossil beach at Skjåvika, north-easternmost Finnmark county, Norway, in 2015. Jan Ingolf Kleppe from Finnmark county cultural resource management is at work in this image. Both photos: H.P. Blankholm, UiT The Arctic University of Norway
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