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<P align="justify"> A prehistoric period in the {{Artikkelilinkki|1431|chronology}} of eastern and northern {{Artikkelilinkki|1522|Fennoscandia}} located between the Early and Late Iron Ages (A.D. 250-800), and at the same time the first period of the Post-Ceramic Iron Age. The shift from the {{Artikkelilinkki|1465|Early Iron Age}} to the Middle Iron Age meant a radical change. The cultural expression of the Early Metal Age characterized by {{Artikkelilinkki|1425|ceramics}} and modest iron metallurgy was abandoned for a completely different one. </P> <P align="justify"> The paucity of archaeological relics characterizes the Middle Iron Age of the region. No particularly recognizable type of prehistoric relic seems to typify the Middle Iron Age. Nor have any clear markers indicating how people lived and functioned after the end of the Early metal Age been found. The area was not, however, deserted because the numerous radiocarbon datings of hearths and other carbon finds and of trapping pits are located in the Middle Iron Age ({{Artikkelilinkki|1401|Dating}}). They tell of the continuation of human activity, although this is difficult to ascertain as there are no original relics (e.g. ceramics) that have survived. Understandably, objects made of wood, clay or bone have disappeared. There are more metal objects than before, but they are rarely connected with prehistoric remains, and anyway they are always imported, mostly from the agricultural communities of southwestern Finland and southern Scandinavia. Presumably, this is evidence of the beginning of a systematic exploitation by these communities of the hinterlands and their products (above all the furs), with the local hunting communities acting as suppliers. This trade was part of a European-wide network. In adjusting their economy to the commercial provision of the produce of the hinterlands, the hunting communities of northern and eastern Fennoscandia gave up some of the activities that had characterised their self-sufficient way of life in which they had no need to produce any surplus of goods. </P> <P align="justify"> Information about the ‘skiing Finns’ (Screrefenni, Skrithiphinoi, Scritobini) of northern Scandinavia was relayed via the contacts between the Swedish and Norwegian agricultural communities and central Europe, and this then found its way into contemporary works ({{Artikkelilinkki|1602|Jordanes}}, Procopius, {{Artikkelilinkki|1601|Diaconus}}, etc). One can assume that the information about these ‘Finns’ in fact referred to the early Saami living in northern Scandinavia.</P><BR><BR> {{Artikkelilinkki|20140806092742| Table of contents: Archaeology}}<BR><BR>
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