Networks, Interaction and Emerging Identities in Fennoscandia and Beyond SUOMALAIS-UGRILAISEN SEURAN TOIMITUKSIA MÉMOIRES DE LA SOCIÉTÉ FINNO-OUGRIENNE ❋ 265 ❋ Networks, Interaction and Emerging Identities in Fennoscandia and Beyond Papers from the conference held in Tromsø, Norway, October 13–16 2009 Edited by Charlotte Damm & Janne Saarikivi SUOMALAIS-UGRILAINEN SEURA HELSINKI 2012 Networks, Interaction and Emerging Identities in Fennoscandia and Beyond. Papers from the conference held in Tromsø, Norway, October 13–16 2009 Edited by Charlotte Damm & Janne Saarikivi Suomalais-Ugrilaisen Seuran Toimituksia 265 Mémoires de la Société Finno-Ougrienne Layout Niko Partanen Photograph on the cover: Nángunjárga hoard. Marja Helander. Siida Saami museum. Copyright © 2012 Suomalais-Ugrilainen Seura — Société Finno-Ougrienne — Finno-Ugrian Society & authors Orders — Tilaukset Tiedekirja Kirkkokatu 14 FI-00170 Helsinki http://www.tiedekirja.fi
[email protected] fax +358 9 635 017 ISBN 978-952-5667-39-4 (print) ISBN 978-952-5667-40-0 (online) ISSN 0355-0230 Vammalan Kirjapaino Oy Sastamala 2012 Contents Charlotte Damm & Janne Saarikivi Introduction VII Part I ...and beyond T. Max Friesen Alaskan Analogues and Eastern Uncertainties: Reconstructing Thule Inuit Interaction Networks in the Eastern North American Arctic 3 Peter Jordan From Hunter to Herder? Investigating the Spread of Transport Innovations in Northwest Siberia 27 Mark J. Hudson, Mami Aoyama & Kara C. Hoover Navigating Hunter-Gatherer Resilience: Networks and Insularity in the Prehistory of the Ryukyu Islands 49 Robert Jarvenpa & Hetty Jo Brumbach The Chipewyan-Cree-Métis Interaction Sphere and the Fur Trade Political Economy: Archaeological, Ethnohistorical and Ethnographic Approaches 67 Pekka Sammallahti Bottlenecks and Contacts in the Linguistic Prehistory of the Saami 93 E.