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Early Iron Age Early Iron Age, also called the Ceramic Iron Age. A prehistoric period ([[Prehistoric Age|Preshistoric Age]]) in the [[Chronology|chronology]] of northern and eastern [[Fennoscandia|Fennoscandia]] which covers the latter part of the Early Metal Age (700 B.C.-A.D. 300). During the period 700-500 B.C., cultural influence emanating from the [[Ananino Culture|Ananino culture]] in eastern Russia spread into northern and eastern Fennoscandia, where it introduced iron metallurgy. Despite this, bronze continued to be used as a raw material for making axes until about 500 B.C. The design of bronze axes was based on types adopted from the culture. In eastern Fennoscandia, Textile Impressed and Anttila Ware disappeared c. 500 B.C., but the production of Luukonsaari and Sirnihta Ware continued up to the end of the period. In northern Fennoscandia, [[Kjelmoy|Kjelmøy]] ceramics came to predominate and continued to be produced till the end of the period. In the light of finds, contacts with ‘the outside world’ in the period 500 B.C.-A.D. 300 were few. Nevertheless, the first written information referring to what seem to be the Saami date from this period. Quotations from the description (On the Ocean) of his voyage of exploration by the Greek Pytheas have survived; they show that he travelled to the far north, where he probably learnt about a people he called the Phinoi. Cornelius Tacitus wrote in A.D. 98 about a tribe called the Fenni in his work ‘Germania’, and Ptolemy also mentions a people called the Phinnoi in c. A.D. 170. Apparently, these names are Greek and Latin forms for the ‘Finns’, meaning the Saami. There is reason to suppose that the early records that refer to the ‘Finns’ meant the forefathers of the Saami, who represented the Kjelmøy culture in northern Scandinavia. [[Chronology|chronology]] [[Table of contents: Archaeology| Table of contents: Archaeology]] Otsikko 102