Janne Ikäheimo
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 172896 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Janne Ikäheimo |
| NOMBRES | Janne |
| APELLIDO | Ikäheimo |
| FIRMA | IKÄHEIMO J |
| AFILIACIONES | University of Oulu |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6334-4570 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 23 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 54 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 23 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2002 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 5 |
Everyday life at the Finnish polar station in Sodankylä, 1882–1884
This article revisits the Finnish contribution to the First International Polar Year (IPY) (1882–1883) by examining a largely overlooked primary source: “ On the Finnish Research Expedition to Sodankylä and Kultala in 1882–1884, with Sketches from Lapland ” (Helsinki, 1885). Contrary to claims in recent scholarship that no detailed accounts of daily life at the Finnish polar station have survived, this volume offers rich descriptions of the exped…
Contextualizing Törminkangas
This article contributes to our understanding of Late Iron Age settlement dynamics and socio-economic developments in northern Fennoscandia by presenting the results and broader implications of archaeological excavations at Törminkangas in Oulu, a newly discovered Iron Age dwelling site near the Kalimenjoki River in Northern Ostrobothnia, Finland. The excavations, centred around a rectangular stone sauna stove, yielded artifacts including a fragm…
Detecting pitfall systems in the Suomenselkä watershed, Finland, with airborne laser scanning and artificial intelligence
This article examines the use of airborne laser scanning data and semi-automatic detection algorithms to identify pitfall sites in the northern part of the Suomenselkä watershed in Finland. The results show that new sites can be effectively detected with these methods, even in areas recently surveyed archaeologically. Most of the previously known pitfall sites were also easily distinguishable from the data. The geographic location of the newly di…
Indians” in Lapland
This article examines mechanisms of marginalization in the monocultural setting of Finland in the early 1990s through the case of the multinational Iriadamant “lifestyle Indians”. The Iriadamant imitated Native Americans in appearance, and the “tribe” settled in Finnish Lapland to experiment with a non-consumerist ecological and spiritual way of living off-grid. We examine how this community was perceived in Finland and assess how Finnish percept…
The area around the grave markers
The study of pet cemeteries has recently intensified in multiple disciplines. However, the focus of this research has been more on the interpretation of information available on grave markers, while only touching on the geographical context, the land use zone of these sites. The advantages of focusing on the broader context are shown here through a case study focusing on the Hiironen pet cemetery in the city of Oulu in northern Finland. First, by…
How to Mound a Horse? Remembrance and Thoughts of Afterlife at Finnish Companion Animal Cemetery
This article presents the results of a combined archaeological and cultural anthropological study of 170 horse burials at a pet (companion animal) cemetery in Mikonkangas, Oulu, Finland. The applied methods include archaeological documentation, interviews with the horse caretakers, and visits to the site. Contrary to socially and legislatively controlled human burial grounds with organized maintenance, companion animal cemeteries with their inher…
Exclusive craft beer events
The specialized market of craft beer is today both vast and supportive enough for exclusive craft beer events characterized by a limited number of admissions and the high status of participating breweries. Such events offer craft beer enthusiasts a convenient, yet regulated social and physical environment for both personal and collective performances. This article uses the Copenhagen Beer Celebration (2012–2016) as a case to define their “nature”…
Cape Valmarinniemi
CHRISTIANISATION IS A PROCESS that manifests as locally distinctive traditions and behaviours. While traditionally in Finland it has been assumed that local populations were subjected to a forced conversion, recent research has abandoned such top-down approaches and has emphasised local agency in the Christianisation process. This article contributes to the investigation of religious conversion in the Bothnian Bay coastal region of Finland, where…
The Site of a Film Set as Material Heritage
Rauta-aika (The Age of Iron, 1982), a four episode TV-series produced by YLE – the Finnish Broadcasting Company, transported the audience into a world of fantasy by successfully mixing the Finnish national epic Kalevala with elements of the local Iron Age. This paper focuses on the dismantled film set of the Pohjola village at the Seinävuori Hill in Hämeenkyrö, documented using archaeological methods in 2012, from the perspective of material heri…
Memorialization and Heritagization
This article focuses on the processes of memorialization and heritagization through a case study from Oulu, Finland, where a cast-iron rail encircling a pine tree constitutes a memorial marking the site of the country’s last official execution by hanging in 1916. The memorial and its immediate surroundings are examined here through historical documents and maps, tree-ring data, interviews, and the results of small-scale archaeological excavations…
Hanging tree as a place of memories – Encounters at a 1916 execution site
Near the city centre of Oulu in northern Finland, one comes across a peculiar monument: a pine tree turned into a memorial that marks the site of the last official execution by hanging in the country. Archaeological excavations took place at the hanging site in August 2014, not only to gather archaeological evidence on the history and use of the memorial, but also in order to offer people a way to share their memories and recollections of this ra…
Alternative Pasts and Colonial Engagements in the North
The unknown and exotic North fascinated European minds in the early modern period. A land of natural and supernatural wonders, and of the indigenous Sámi people, the northern margins of Europe stirred up imagination and a plethora of cultural fantasies, which also affected early antiquarian research and the period understanding of the past. This article employs an alleged runestone discovered in northernmost Sweden in the seventeenth century to e…
Lost in Narration
The Suomussalmi copper adze is a native copper artefact discovered in 1980 on Kukkosaari Island (Suomussalmi, north-eastern Finland). Since then the artefact has been repeatedly used as an example when narrating the introduction of metal technology in prehistoric Finland, while its chronological position, function and significance have remained poorly studied. Here the object is reviewed both through the results of new metallographic analyses and…
Constructing a trumped-up future with the pastness of the present? Neo-relics and archaeological heritage
Neo-relics, constructions borrowing their looks from ancient structures or sites ranging from the mighty Stonehenge to a humble Troy town, have recently been erected in different parts of Finland. In authorized heritage discourse, they are often seen as a potential threat. However, we demonstrate here, with a variety of examples from various social contexts, how ordinary people assign meanings and functions to archaeological heritage through them…
The ghost of Taavetti Lukkarinen and the haunting legacy of a 1916 hanging site
On the fringe of the city centre of Oulu, Finland, stands a peculiar memorial commemorating the last death sentence by hanging in Finland. Here people remembered the ill-fate of Taavetti Lukkarinen, a young man in his early 30s, who was hanged for high treason by Russian officers in 1916. In 2014, archaeological excavation at the hanging tree memorial revealed an interesting group of finds consisting of a deliberately fractured proximal end of a …
Cultivation of Perception and the Emergence of the Neolithic World
This article develops the idea that the emergence of the Neolithic world was closely linked to discovering and becoming aware of new aspects and dimensions of reality. Practices such as pottery making and cultivation promoted attentiveness to new aspects of things and the environment, which in turn generated a new kind of lived world that was, in a sense, richer, larger and deeper than before. It is proposed that new forms of material culture and…
Early Copper Use in Neolithic North-Eastern Europe
Copper finds from Neolithic contexts in eastern Fennoscandia represent the earliest phase of metal use in northern Europe. Currently some 30 sites, which have produced approximately 180 copper finds, are known. The finds consist mainly of nuggets and indeterminate lumps of copper, but a number of personal adornments and small tools are also present. The centre of copper use is located on the northern and western coasts of Lake Onega, where native…
Thesprotia expedition II
Daughters of magic
Animistic and other alternative ontologies have recently been discussed in archaeology and material culture studies, but these discussions, while not entirely unfamiliar to historical archaeology, have so far had a limited impact on our understanding of the post-medieval Western world. This paper uses Western esoteric thought and folk beliefs to engage with the idea of the relational constitution of reality. It is argued that forms of ‘magical th…
Wretchedly poor, but amazingly practical
The paper discusses two assemblages of bone arrowheads found in the excavations of a Bronze Age and an Iron Age burial site in northern Ostrobothnia, Finland. Arrowheads of this type are mentioned in ad 98 by Tacitus, the Roman historian, as a feature underlining the poverty of the Fenni, a tribe which has been variedly identified as the ancestors of either the Finns or the Sámi. However, experiments carried out with replicas of the bone arrowhea…
Should the Marginal be Classified
The Supply of Amphora-Borne Commodities and Domestic Pottery in Pompeii 150 BC–AD 79
This study discusses the changing trends in the supply of wine, olive oil, fish sauce and domestic pottery in Pompeii over a period of more than two centuries through the examination of a pottery assemblage excavated recently in the House of the Vestals. The ceramic evidence is viewed in the light of broader political and economic trends that affected production and trade over the course of time. A clear shift from regional self-sufficiency to a …
Defusing Dualism
How do archaeologists assign meanings to prehistoric art objects? Ancient art is often understood in terms of communication and expression, whereas other than purely visual meanings of art are seldom promulgated. Art is often associated with survival, religion and identity - the 'big issues' of social life - but some art objects may have been specimens of everyday material culture. In this article it is shown that the rejection of the dualistic m…
Cultivation of Perception and the Emergence of the Neolithic World
This article develops the idea that the emergence of the Neolithic world was closely linked to discovering and becoming aware of new aspects and dimensions of reality. Practices such as pottery making and cultivation promoted attentiveness to new aspects of things and the environment, which in turn generated a new kind of lived world that was, in a sense, richer, larger and deeper than before. It is proposed that new forms of material culture and…
Daughters of magic
Animistic and other alternative ontologies have recently been discussed in archaeology and material culture studies, but these discussions, while not entirely unfamiliar to historical archaeology, have so far had a limited impact on our understanding of the post-medieval Western world. This paper uses Western esoteric thought and folk beliefs to engage with the idea of the relational constitution of reality. It is argued that forms of ‘magical th…
Exclusive craft beer events
The specialized market of craft beer is today both vast and supportive enough for exclusive craft beer events characterized by a limited number of admissions and the high status of participating breweries. Such events offer craft beer enthusiasts a convenient, yet regulated social and physical environment for both personal and collective performances. This article uses the Copenhagen Beer Celebration (2012–2016) as a case to define their “nature”…
Early Copper Use in Neolithic North-Eastern Europe
Copper finds from Neolithic contexts in eastern Fennoscandia represent the earliest phase of metal use in northern Europe. Currently some 30 sites, which have produced approximately 180 copper finds, are known. The finds consist mainly of nuggets and indeterminate lumps of copper, but a number of personal adornments and small tools are also present. The centre of copper use is located on the northern and western coasts of Lake Onega, where native…
Wretchedly poor, but amazingly practical
The paper discusses two assemblages of bone arrowheads found in the excavations of a Bronze Age and an Iron Age burial site in northern Ostrobothnia, Finland. Arrowheads of this type are mentioned in ad 98 by Tacitus, the Roman historian, as a feature underlining the poverty of the Fenni, a tribe which has been variedly identified as the ancestors of either the Finns or the Sámi. However, experiments carried out with replicas of the bone arrowhea…
The Supply of Amphora-Borne Commodities and Domestic Pottery in Pompeii 150 BC–AD 79
This study discusses the changing trends in the supply of wine, olive oil, fish sauce and domestic pottery in Pompeii over a period of more than two centuries through the examination of a pottery assemblage excavated recently in the House of the Vestals. The ceramic evidence is viewed in the light of broader political and economic trends that affected production and trade over the course of time. A clear shift from regional self-sufficiency to a …
Constructing a trumped-up future with the pastness of the present? Neo-relics and archaeological heritage
Neo-relics, constructions borrowing their looks from ancient structures or sites ranging from the mighty Stonehenge to a humble Troy town, have recently been erected in different parts of Finland. In authorized heritage discourse, they are often seen as a potential threat. However, we demonstrate here, with a variety of examples from various social contexts, how ordinary people assign meanings and functions to archaeological heritage through them…
Detecting pitfall systems in the Suomenselkä watershed, Finland, with airborne laser scanning and artificial intelligence
This article examines the use of airborne laser scanning data and semi-automatic detection algorithms to identify pitfall sites in the northern part of the Suomenselkä watershed in Finland. The results show that new sites can be effectively detected with these methods, even in areas recently surveyed archaeologically. Most of the previously known pitfall sites were also easily distinguishable from the data. The geographic location of the newly di…
The area around the grave markers
The study of pet cemeteries has recently intensified in multiple disciplines. However, the focus of this research has been more on the interpretation of information available on grave markers, while only touching on the geographical context, the land use zone of these sites. The advantages of focusing on the broader context are shown here through a case study focusing on the Hiironen pet cemetery in the city of Oulu in northern Finland. First, by…
How to Mound a Horse? Remembrance and Thoughts of Afterlife at Finnish Companion Animal Cemetery
This article presents the results of a combined archaeological and cultural anthropological study of 170 horse burials at a pet (companion animal) cemetery in Mikonkangas, Oulu, Finland. The applied methods include archaeological documentation, interviews with the horse caretakers, and visits to the site. Contrary to socially and legislatively controlled human burial grounds with organized maintenance, companion animal cemeteries with their inher…
Lost in Narration
The Suomussalmi copper adze is a native copper artefact discovered in 1980 on Kukkosaari Island (Suomussalmi, north-eastern Finland). Since then the artefact has been repeatedly used as an example when narrating the introduction of metal technology in prehistoric Finland, while its chronological position, function and significance have remained poorly studied. Here the object is reviewed both through the results of new metallographic analyses and…
Should the Marginal be Classified
Defusing Dualism
How do archaeologists assign meanings to prehistoric art objects? Ancient art is often understood in terms of communication and expression, whereas other than purely visual meanings of art are seldom promulgated. Art is often associated with survival, religion and identity - the 'big issues' of social life - but some art objects may have been specimens of everyday material culture. In this article it is shown that the rejection of the dualistic m…
Defusing Dualism
How do archaeologists assign meanings to prehistoric art objects? Ancient art is often understood in terms of communication and expression, whereas other than purely visual meanings of art are seldom promulgated. Art is often associated with survival, religion and identity - the 'big issues' of social life - but some art objects may have been specimens of everyday material culture. In this article it is shown that the rejection of the dualistic m…
The Supply of Amphora-Borne Commodities and Domestic Pottery in Pompeii 150 BC–AD 79
This study discusses the changing trends in the supply of wine, olive oil, fish sauce and domestic pottery in Pompeii over a period of more than two centuries through the examination of a pottery assemblage excavated recently in the House of the Vestals. The ceramic evidence is viewed in the light of broader political and economic trends that affected production and trade over the course of time. A clear shift from regional self-sufficiency to a …
Wretchedly poor, but amazingly practical
The paper discusses two assemblages of bone arrowheads found in the excavations of a Bronze Age and an Iron Age burial site in northern Ostrobothnia, Finland. Arrowheads of this type are mentioned in ad 98 by Tacitus, the Roman historian, as a feature underlining the poverty of the Fenni, a tribe which has been variedly identified as the ancestors of either the Finns or the Sámi. However, experiments carried out with replicas of the bone arrowhea…
Should the Marginal be Classified
Daughters of magic
Animistic and other alternative ontologies have recently been discussed in archaeology and material culture studies, but these discussions, while not entirely unfamiliar to historical archaeology, have so far had a limited impact on our understanding of the post-medieval Western world. This paper uses Western esoteric thought and folk beliefs to engage with the idea of the relational constitution of reality. It is argued that forms of ‘magical th…
Thesprotia expedition II
Early Copper Use in Neolithic North-Eastern Europe
Copper finds from Neolithic contexts in eastern Fennoscandia represent the earliest phase of metal use in northern Europe. Currently some 30 sites, which have produced approximately 180 copper finds, are known. The finds consist mainly of nuggets and indeterminate lumps of copper, but a number of personal adornments and small tools are also present. The centre of copper use is located on the northern and western coasts of Lake Onega, where native…
Cultivation of Perception and the Emergence of the Neolithic World
This article develops the idea that the emergence of the Neolithic world was closely linked to discovering and becoming aware of new aspects and dimensions of reality. Practices such as pottery making and cultivation promoted attentiveness to new aspects of things and the environment, which in turn generated a new kind of lived world that was, in a sense, richer, larger and deeper than before. It is proposed that new forms of material culture and…
The ghost of Taavetti Lukkarinen and the haunting legacy of a 1916 hanging site
On the fringe of the city centre of Oulu, Finland, stands a peculiar memorial commemorating the last death sentence by hanging in Finland. Here people remembered the ill-fate of Taavetti Lukkarinen, a young man in his early 30s, who was hanged for high treason by Russian officers in 1916. In 2014, archaeological excavation at the hanging tree memorial revealed an interesting group of finds consisting of a deliberately fractured proximal end of a …
Lost in Narration
The Suomussalmi copper adze is a native copper artefact discovered in 1980 on Kukkosaari Island (Suomussalmi, north-eastern Finland). Since then the artefact has been repeatedly used as an example when narrating the introduction of metal technology in prehistoric Finland, while its chronological position, function and significance have remained poorly studied. Here the object is reviewed both through the results of new metallographic analyses and…
Constructing a trumped-up future with the pastness of the present? Neo-relics and archaeological heritage
Neo-relics, constructions borrowing their looks from ancient structures or sites ranging from the mighty Stonehenge to a humble Troy town, have recently been erected in different parts of Finland. In authorized heritage discourse, they are often seen as a potential threat. However, we demonstrate here, with a variety of examples from various social contexts, how ordinary people assign meanings and functions to archaeological heritage through them…
Hanging tree as a place of memories – Encounters at a 1916 execution site
Near the city centre of Oulu in northern Finland, one comes across a peculiar monument: a pine tree turned into a memorial that marks the site of the last official execution by hanging in the country. Archaeological excavations took place at the hanging site in August 2014, not only to gather archaeological evidence on the history and use of the memorial, but also in order to offer people a way to share their memories and recollections of this ra…
Alternative Pasts and Colonial Engagements in the North
The unknown and exotic North fascinated European minds in the early modern period. A land of natural and supernatural wonders, and of the indigenous Sámi people, the northern margins of Europe stirred up imagination and a plethora of cultural fantasies, which also affected early antiquarian research and the period understanding of the past. This article employs an alleged runestone discovered in northernmost Sweden in the seventeenth century to e…
The Site of a Film Set as Material Heritage
Rauta-aika (The Age of Iron, 1982), a four episode TV-series produced by YLE – the Finnish Broadcasting Company, transported the audience into a world of fantasy by successfully mixing the Finnish national epic Kalevala with elements of the local Iron Age. This paper focuses on the dismantled film set of the Pohjola village at the Seinävuori Hill in Hämeenkyrö, documented using archaeological methods in 2012, from the perspective of material heri…
Memorialization and Heritagization
This article focuses on the processes of memorialization and heritagization through a case study from Oulu, Finland, where a cast-iron rail encircling a pine tree constitutes a memorial marking the site of the country’s last official execution by hanging in 1916. The memorial and its immediate surroundings are examined here through historical documents and maps, tree-ring data, interviews, and the results of small-scale archaeological excavations…
Exclusive craft beer events
The specialized market of craft beer is today both vast and supportive enough for exclusive craft beer events characterized by a limited number of admissions and the high status of participating breweries. Such events offer craft beer enthusiasts a convenient, yet regulated social and physical environment for both personal and collective performances. This article uses the Copenhagen Beer Celebration (2012–2016) as a case to define their “nature”…
Cape Valmarinniemi
CHRISTIANISATION IS A PROCESS that manifests as locally distinctive traditions and behaviours. While traditionally in Finland it has been assumed that local populations were subjected to a forced conversion, recent research has abandoned such top-down approaches and has emphasised local agency in the Christianisation process. This article contributes to the investigation of religious conversion in the Bothnian Bay coastal region of Finland, where…
How to Mound a Horse? Remembrance and Thoughts of Afterlife at Finnish Companion Animal Cemetery
This article presents the results of a combined archaeological and cultural anthropological study of 170 horse burials at a pet (companion animal) cemetery in Mikonkangas, Oulu, Finland. The applied methods include archaeological documentation, interviews with the horse caretakers, and visits to the site. Contrary to socially and legislatively controlled human burial grounds with organized maintenance, companion animal cemeteries with their inher…
Indians” in Lapland
This article examines mechanisms of marginalization in the monocultural setting of Finland in the early 1990s through the case of the multinational Iriadamant “lifestyle Indians”. The Iriadamant imitated Native Americans in appearance, and the “tribe” settled in Finnish Lapland to experiment with a non-consumerist ecological and spiritual way of living off-grid. We examine how this community was perceived in Finland and assess how Finnish percept…
The area around the grave markers
The study of pet cemeteries has recently intensified in multiple disciplines. However, the focus of this research has been more on the interpretation of information available on grave markers, while only touching on the geographical context, the land use zone of these sites. The advantages of focusing on the broader context are shown here through a case study focusing on the Hiironen pet cemetery in the city of Oulu in northern Finland. First, by…
Detecting pitfall systems in the Suomenselkä watershed, Finland, with airborne laser scanning and artificial intelligence
This article examines the use of airborne laser scanning data and semi-automatic detection algorithms to identify pitfall sites in the northern part of the Suomenselkä watershed in Finland. The results show that new sites can be effectively detected with these methods, even in areas recently surveyed archaeologically. Most of the previously known pitfall sites were also easily distinguishable from the data. The geographic location of the newly di…
Contextualizing Törminkangas
This article contributes to our understanding of Late Iron Age settlement dynamics and socio-economic developments in northern Fennoscandia by presenting the results and broader implications of archaeological excavations at Törminkangas in Oulu, a newly discovered Iron Age dwelling site near the Kalimenjoki River in Northern Ostrobothnia, Finland. The excavations, centred around a rectangular stone sauna stove, yielded artifacts including a fragm…
Everyday life at the Finnish polar station in Sodankylä, 1882–1884
This article revisits the Finnish contribution to the First International Polar Year (IPY) (1882–1883) by examining a largely overlooked primary source: “ On the Finnish Research Expedition to Sodankylä and Kultala in 1882–1884, with Sketches from Lapland ” (Helsinki, 1885). Contrary to claims in recent scholarship that no detailed accounts of daily life at the Finnish polar station have survived, this volume offers rich descriptions of the exped…
Archaeology (20 obras) · History (17 obras) · Art (13 obras) · History (12 obras) · Geography (10 obras) · Archaeology and ancient environmental studies (9 obras) · Sociology (8 obras) · Aesthetics (6 obras) · Computer Science (5 obras) · Philosophy (5 obras)