Quantifying Sami settlement and movement patterns in northern Sweden 1700-1900

Arctic

Volumn 63, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 141-154

  Josefsson, Torbjörn ^a   Bergman, Ingela ^b   Östlund, Lars ^a  

^a SWEDISH UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (Sweden)

^b The Silver Museum   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Archaeology; Archival sources; Forest history; Mountain birch; Northern Sweden; Population changes; Reindeer pastoralism; Sami; Scots pine; Taxation lands

Indexed keywords

ARCHAEOLOGY; DEER; EIGHTEENTH CENTURY; EVERGREEN TREE; FOREST INVENTORY; HUMAN SETTLEMENT; INDIGENOUS POPULATION; LAND TENURE; MOVEMENT; NINETEENTH CENTURY; PASTORALISM; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION SIZE;

SWEDEN;

BETULA PUBESCENS SUBSP. TORTUOSA; PINUS SYLVESTRIS; RANGIFER TARANDUS;

EID: 77954252804     PISSN: 00040843     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.14430/arctic970     Document Type: Article

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