PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Broadbent, Noel D.
TI  - A Brief Overview of the Chronology of North Bothnian Sealing during the Iron Age and a Theory of Punctuated Sedentism
AID  - 10.1353/arc.0.0024
DP  - 2009 Feb 06
TA  - Arctic Anthropology
PG  - 158--166
VI  - 46
IP  - 1-2
4099  - http://aa.uwpress.org/content/46/1-2/158.short
4100  - http://aa.uwpress.org/content/46/1-2/158.full
SO  - Arctic Anthropol2009 Feb 06; 46
AB  - 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.