Maria Lahtinen
Biographic Data
| ID | 672937 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Maria Lahtinen |
| GIVEN NAMES | Maria |
| FAMILY NAME | Lahtinen |
| SIGNATURE | LAHTINEN M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Department of Education University of Jyväskylä Jyväskylä Finland |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5766-1665 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 60 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 13 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Recognised in a Quarrel? Positioning of the Child and Parent in Children's and Young People's Stories of Child–Parent Conflicts
How children are cared for, how their agentic rights are respected and in what ways they are esteemed as contributors to intergenerational relationships are important questions to consider in child‐related research. Especially in child–parent conflicts, the child's rights and the parent's responsibilities have been argued to be somewhat contradictory: parents have a duty to raise and protect their children, and children have the right to express …
Non-invasive chemical characterisation of archaeological ochres from the early 4th millennium BCE forager graves and settlements in Finland
The use of non-invasive ED-XRF to chemically group archaeological ochres from eight 4th millennium BCE sites in Finland. • Three primary chemical ochre groups were discovered at the sites, which potentially represent regional ochre sources. • The group division suggests that ochres were part of a long-distance exchange or gift-giving network. • The deliberate use of different ochre types indicates their role in ritualized practices. In the early …
Young children's narratives of exclusion in peer relationships in early childhood education and care
In peer culture, children develop social and moral orderings that justify exclusion of one or more peers – an area that has sparked debate among early childhood education groups. Therefore, the present study employed the idea of the power order or social and moral ordering of belonging to explore young children's narratives of social exclusion. We asked what story types can be identified in these narratives and how exclusion is reasoned in them. …
Rebellious boys and caring girls? Young children’s narratives of child agency and opportunities for influence in child–parent conflicts
This article examines the child’s agency and opportunities for influence in young children’s fictional narratives of everyday child–parent conflicts. We explore identifiable story types, how children describe the child character’s agency and influence, and how boys’ and girls’ descriptions differ. The data (104 conflict stories) were gathered with 45 White Finnish children (aged three to six years) using the Story Magician’s Play Time method. Thr…
From Surrender Stories to Persistence Stories
This paper examines the dynamics of agency and power as revealed in young girls’ fictional narratives about child–parent conflicts that are caused by incompatibility between the goals of children and parents in everyday family life. The data were collected from 26 girls aged 4 to 6 using the Story Magician’s Play Time method. Narrative analysis yielded five types: mediation and compromise stories, surrender stories, persistence stories, solidarit…
From being ignored to engaging in dialogue
This paper examines children's opportunities to participate in everyday child–parent conflicts as revealed in young boys' fictional narratives. The data were collected from 19 boys aged 3–6 years using the Story Magician's Play Time method. Narrative analysis yielded four story types: ignored participation stories, parent‐directed participation stories, child‐directed participation stories and dialogical participation stories. The study illustrat…
The High-Status Late Medieval Skull Shaped Relic in Turku Cathedral Finland – Study of the Origin with Oxygen and Strontium Isotope Analyses
The relics and associated reliquaries of Turku Cathedral are among the most significant early Christian artefacts in Finland preserved in situ. Despite their importance, they have not been the focus of scientific enquiry for a number of decades. This study has focused on one skull shaped relic, although the origin and name of its associated saint remains unknown. The relic is the only such example with high-status decoration in the Turku Cathedra…
Source of strontium in archaeological mobility studies-marine diet contribution to the isotopic composition
The strontium isotope composition of human tissues is widely used in archaeological mobility studies. However, little attention is paid to the relative contributions of terrestrial versus marine sources of strontium in these studies. There is some debate over the role of a solid diet versus drinking water as the most important source of strontium for the human body, with related possibilities of misinterpretation of the archaeological record if o…
Mixed Livelihood Society in Iin Hamina – a Case Study of Medieval Diet in the Northern Ostrobothnia, Finland
A stable isotope investigation of a large Medieval population buried in Iin Hamina, northern Finland, has been used to reconstruct palaeodiet. Iin Hamina is situated approximately 30 km away from the modern city Oulu, in close proximity to the Bothnian Bay coast and the river Ii. The material used in this study is human skeletal material from an Iin Hamina cemetery dated as 15 to 17th centuries AD and animal bones excavated in Northern Ostrobothn…
Farming in the Extreme-Animal Management in Late Medieval and Early Modern Northern Finland
Agrarian activity clearly intensified in northern Finland from the 14th century onwards. This climatically marginal area was one of the northernmost locations for farming during the studied period. This study contributes to understanding the development and local adaptions in agriculture in the Late Medieval and Early Modern (ca. 1400–1700 AD) period northern Finland through zooarchaeological and stable isotope data. We analyze the faunal assembl…
Isotopic Evidence for Environmental Adaptation in Medieval Iin Hamina, Northern Finland
This study investigates human environmental adaptation in northern Finland at the cemetery of Iin Hamina. The cemetery was in use in the 15th and 16th centuries AD during the cool climate anomaly called the Little Ice Age. It is possible that these extreme climatic conditions may have impacted human survival in this agriculturally marginal region. In previous studies, carbon and nitrogen isotopes in the bone collagen of humans and fauna have show…
The advance of cultivation at its northern European limit
Dates for early cultivation in Finland obtained from pollen analysis and remains from archaeological sites are compared with the changes in population size derived from the summed calendar-year probability distributions. The results from these two independent proxies correlate strongly with one another indicating that population size and the advance of farming were closely linked to each other. Moreover, the results show that the adaptation and d…
Early Farming in Finland
We review the evidence for the earliest agriculture in Finland. The claims are all based on pollen analysis. Some claims go back to the Neolithic period. We contest these claims critically and argue that the ‘early cereal-type’ pollen grains may in fact come from large-grained wild grasses, and cannot be taken as clear evidence for cultivation in the absence of other lines of evidence. Cultivation of cereals in Finland may have started as late as…
Early Farming in Finland
We review the evidence for the earliest agriculture in Finland. The claims are all based on pollen analysis. Some claims go back to the Neolithic period. We contest these claims critically and argue that the ‘early cereal-type’ pollen grains may in fact come from large-grained wild grasses, and cannot be taken as clear evidence for cultivation in the absence of other lines of evidence. Cultivation of cereals in Finland may have started as late as…
Source of strontium in archaeological mobility studies-marine diet contribution to the isotopic composition
The strontium isotope composition of human tissues is widely used in archaeological mobility studies. However, little attention is paid to the relative contributions of terrestrial versus marine sources of strontium in these studies. There is some debate over the role of a solid diet versus drinking water as the most important source of strontium for the human body, with related possibilities of misinterpretation of the archaeological record if o…
Mixed Livelihood Society in Iin Hamina – a Case Study of Medieval Diet in the Northern Ostrobothnia, Finland
A stable isotope investigation of a large Medieval population buried in Iin Hamina, northern Finland, has been used to reconstruct palaeodiet. Iin Hamina is situated approximately 30 km away from the modern city Oulu, in close proximity to the Bothnian Bay coast and the river Ii. The material used in this study is human skeletal material from an Iin Hamina cemetery dated as 15 to 17th centuries AD and animal bones excavated in Northern Ostrobothn…
Isotopic Evidence for Environmental Adaptation in Medieval Iin Hamina, Northern Finland
This study investigates human environmental adaptation in northern Finland at the cemetery of Iin Hamina. The cemetery was in use in the 15th and 16th centuries AD during the cool climate anomaly called the Little Ice Age. It is possible that these extreme climatic conditions may have impacted human survival in this agriculturally marginal region. In previous studies, carbon and nitrogen isotopes in the bone collagen of humans and fauna have show…
The advance of cultivation at its northern European limit
Dates for early cultivation in Finland obtained from pollen analysis and remains from archaeological sites are compared with the changes in population size derived from the summed calendar-year probability distributions. The results from these two independent proxies correlate strongly with one another indicating that population size and the advance of farming were closely linked to each other. Moreover, the results show that the adaptation and d…
Early Farming in Finland
We review the evidence for the earliest agriculture in Finland. The claims are all based on pollen analysis. Some claims go back to the Neolithic period. We contest these claims critically and argue that the ‘early cereal-type’ pollen grains may in fact come from large-grained wild grasses, and cannot be taken as clear evidence for cultivation in the absence of other lines of evidence. Cultivation of cereals in Finland may have started as late as…
The advance of cultivation at its northern European limit
Dates for early cultivation in Finland obtained from pollen analysis and remains from archaeological sites are compared with the changes in population size derived from the summed calendar-year probability distributions. The results from these two independent proxies correlate strongly with one another indicating that population size and the advance of farming were closely linked to each other. Moreover, the results show that the adaptation and d…
Isotopic Evidence for Environmental Adaptation in Medieval Iin Hamina, Northern Finland
This study investigates human environmental adaptation in northern Finland at the cemetery of Iin Hamina. The cemetery was in use in the 15th and 16th centuries AD during the cool climate anomaly called the Little Ice Age. It is possible that these extreme climatic conditions may have impacted human survival in this agriculturally marginal region. In previous studies, carbon and nitrogen isotopes in the bone collagen of humans and fauna have show…
Mixed Livelihood Society in Iin Hamina – a Case Study of Medieval Diet in the Northern Ostrobothnia, Finland
A stable isotope investigation of a large Medieval population buried in Iin Hamina, northern Finland, has been used to reconstruct palaeodiet. Iin Hamina is situated approximately 30 km away from the modern city Oulu, in close proximity to the Bothnian Bay coast and the river Ii. The material used in this study is human skeletal material from an Iin Hamina cemetery dated as 15 to 17th centuries AD and animal bones excavated in Northern Ostrobothn…
Farming in the Extreme-Animal Management in Late Medieval and Early Modern Northern Finland
Agrarian activity clearly intensified in northern Finland from the 14th century onwards. This climatically marginal area was one of the northernmost locations for farming during the studied period. This study contributes to understanding the development and local adaptions in agriculture in the Late Medieval and Early Modern (ca. 1400–1700 AD) period northern Finland through zooarchaeological and stable isotope data. We analyze the faunal assembl…
Source of strontium in archaeological mobility studies-marine diet contribution to the isotopic composition
The strontium isotope composition of human tissues is widely used in archaeological mobility studies. However, little attention is paid to the relative contributions of terrestrial versus marine sources of strontium in these studies. There is some debate over the role of a solid diet versus drinking water as the most important source of strontium for the human body, with related possibilities of misinterpretation of the archaeological record if o…
The High-Status Late Medieval Skull Shaped Relic in Turku Cathedral Finland – Study of the Origin with Oxygen and Strontium Isotope Analyses
The relics and associated reliquaries of Turku Cathedral are among the most significant early Christian artefacts in Finland preserved in situ. Despite their importance, they have not been the focus of scientific enquiry for a number of decades. This study has focused on one skull shaped relic, although the origin and name of its associated saint remains unknown. The relic is the only such example with high-status decoration in the Turku Cathedra…
From Surrender Stories to Persistence Stories
This paper examines the dynamics of agency and power as revealed in young girls’ fictional narratives about child–parent conflicts that are caused by incompatibility between the goals of children and parents in everyday family life. The data were collected from 26 girls aged 4 to 6 using the Story Magician’s Play Time method. Narrative analysis yielded five types: mediation and compromise stories, surrender stories, persistence stories, solidarit…
From being ignored to engaging in dialogue
This paper examines children's opportunities to participate in everyday child–parent conflicts as revealed in young boys' fictional narratives. The data were collected from 19 boys aged 3–6 years using the Story Magician's Play Time method. Narrative analysis yielded four story types: ignored participation stories, parent‐directed participation stories, child‐directed participation stories and dialogical participation stories. The study illustrat…
Young children's narratives of exclusion in peer relationships in early childhood education and care
In peer culture, children develop social and moral orderings that justify exclusion of one or more peers – an area that has sparked debate among early childhood education groups. Therefore, the present study employed the idea of the power order or social and moral ordering of belonging to explore young children's narratives of social exclusion. We asked what story types can be identified in these narratives and how exclusion is reasoned in them. …
Rebellious boys and caring girls? Young children’s narratives of child agency and opportunities for influence in child–parent conflicts
This article examines the child’s agency and opportunities for influence in young children’s fictional narratives of everyday child–parent conflicts. We explore identifiable story types, how children describe the child character’s agency and influence, and how boys’ and girls’ descriptions differ. The data (104 conflict stories) were gathered with 45 White Finnish children (aged three to six years) using the Story Magician’s Play Time method. Thr…
Recognised in a Quarrel? Positioning of the Child and Parent in Children's and Young People's Stories of Child–Parent Conflicts
How children are cared for, how their agentic rights are respected and in what ways they are esteemed as contributors to intergenerational relationships are important questions to consider in child‐related research. Especially in child–parent conflicts, the child's rights and the parent's responsibilities have been argued to be somewhat contradictory: parents have a duty to raise and protect their children, and children have the right to express …
Non-invasive chemical characterisation of archaeological ochres from the early 4th millennium BCE forager graves and settlements in Finland
The use of non-invasive ED-XRF to chemically group archaeological ochres from eight 4th millennium BCE sites in Finland. • Three primary chemical ochre groups were discovered at the sites, which potentially represent regional ochre sources. • The group division suggests that ochres were part of a long-distance exchange or gift-giving network. • The deliberate use of different ochre types indicates their role in ritualized practices. In the early …
Archaeology and ancient environmental studies (8 works) · Archaeology (7 works) · Geography (6 works) · Biology (5 works) · Ecology (5 works) · Narrative (5 works) · Agriculture (4 works) · Art (4 works) · Ancient history (3 works) · Children's Rights and Participation (3 works)