TY - JOUR T1 - A Brief Overview of the Chronology of North Bothnian Sealing during the Iron Age and a Theory of Punctuated Sedentism JF - Arctic Anthropology JO - Arctic Anthropol SP - 158 LP - 166 DO - 10.1353/arc.0.0024 VL - 46 IS - 1-2 AU - Noel D. Broadbent Y1 - 2009/02/06 UR - http://aa.uwpress.org/content/46/1-2/158.abstract N2 - This paper presents an overview of the chronology of Iron Age sealing sites on the Swedish north Bothnian coast. This material is interpreted as indigenous (Saami) in origin. Forty-four radiocarbon dates demonstrate that these sites were used from the first centuries A.D. until A.D. 1279. Bothnian settlement may have also been based on reciprocal and “punctuated” settlement cycles, a strategy that took advantage of decadal peaks in terrestrial and maritime resources, and facilitated sedentism before agrarianism. ER -