Sanna Lipkin

• PhD
• Fellow at University of Oulu

Suomen Arkeologinen Seura (SARKS) kartoitti vuoden 2023 aikana arkeologien näkemyksiä tasa-arvosta ja yhdenvertaisuudesta päivitetyn kyselyn avulla, koska edellinen vastaava selvitys toteutettiin vuonna 2020. Silloin seuran hallitus laati kyselyn tulosten pohjalta tasa-arvo- ja yhdenvertaisuussuunnitelman, jonka tavoitteena on edistää yhdenvertaisu...

Hailuoto is an island in the Bothnian Bay in front of the city of Oulu, a local trading centre during the Post-Medieval period. Hailuoto Church, which was built in the early seventeenth century, burned down in 1968 and was excavated in the mid-1980s. Among other finds, textile remains dated to the period between 1620 and 1756 were found both in bur...

The emotional bond between the primary caregiver and the child serves as a foundation for an individual’s well-being both during childhood and later life. The evolution of these bonds may be a fragile process and largely depends on the caregiver’s actions and mental well-being. An avoidant and distancing mentality can have long historical roots acr...

From cradle to grave, human behaviour is greatly influenced by our emotional attachments to other people, animals, objects, places, and ideologies. In this volume, “Archaeologies of Attachment”, we seek to explore new approaches in archaeological thought to study these bonds from the Palaeolithic to the recent past. This introduction provides a bas...

The chapters contained within this volume contain a wealth of evidence which, together, attest to the complexity and variety of human social bonds and attachments. In this chapter, we draw together the many themes introduced in this volume and seek to further explore the applicability of attachment theory and attachment thinking in archaeology. We...

Artikkeli käsittelee Vihdissä Kourlan kartanon mailla sijaitsevaa Toll-suvun hautakappelia. Kappelin rakennutti leski Catharina Charlotta Swedenmarck miehellensä majuri Carl Fredrik Tollille (1718–1784) tämän poismenon jälkeen vuosina 1785–86. Rakennuttaminen tapahtui hautaustapojen murrosaikana, jolloin kirkkoon ja kirkkomaalle hautaaminen oli juu...

We have recently studied northern Finnish archaeological textiles extensively using computed tomography (CT) imaging. These textiles have been found in inhumation burials from the Late Medieval church of Valmarinniemi in Keminmaa and the Postmedieval church of Haukipudas. In this article we discuss the advantages and limitations of CT imaging based...

Cotton (Gossypium species) was used as textile fibre already in the early Indus culture, and since then it has been cultivated in Tropical and Subtropical regions around the whole planet. The species G. hirsutum is nowadays the dominant cotton crop with more than 90% of the world market, while G. barbadense, G. herbaceum and G. arboreum combined, t...

A Guide to Studying the History of Childhood: Multidisciplinary Perspectives and Methods This edited volume is a handbook of research methodologies for the history of childhood. The history of childhood is a vibrant, multidisciplinary field that incorporates a rich variety of methodological approaches developed in disciplines across the social scie...

Introduction to the edited volume "Matkaopas lapsuuden historian tutkimukseen. Monitieteisiä näkökulmia ja menetelmiä" (A Guide to Studying the History of Childhood: Multidisciplinary Perspectives and Methods)(SKS, Helsinki 2022). The edited volume is the first handbook of research methodologies for studying history of childhood published in Finnis...

In mid‐18th‐century Sweden, the newly enhanced census records revealed higher‐than‐expected infant mortality rates in certain regions of the kingdom. This convinced contemporary elite men of common women deliberately refusing to breastfeed out of vanity and lack of care. One of the worst regions in terms of infant mortality was the province of Ostr...

Kallio-Seppä, T., Lipkin, S., Tranberg, A., Väre, T. & Moilanen, U. 2022. Introduction. In Search of the Unusual in Early Modern and Modern Burial Traditions. In: Unusual Death and Memorialization. Burial, Space, and Memory in the Post-Medieval North, edited by T. Kallio-Seppä, S. Lipkin, T. Väre, U. Moilanen & A. Tranberg. pp. 1-18. Berghahn Books...

Examination of northern Finnish postmedieval funerary attire and coffins reveals culturally constructed sensory experiences and emotions of the individuals who took care of preparing dead children for burial. Based on historical sources, the attire and coffins for small children were generally made by adolescent godparents, whereas dressing and han...

Kallio-Seppä, T., Lipkin, S., Väre, T., Moilanen, U. & Tranberg, A. 2022. Unusual Death and Memorialization - Burial, Space, and Memory in the Post-Medieval North. Berghahn Books, New York & Oxford.

We report a plausible case of partial postmortem fetal extrusion dating to the turn of the 19th century. A fetal skull protruded from the obstetric canal of the partially mummified remains of an adult woman buried in a private burial chapel in Vihti, South Finland. The fetal size implies the mother having died during the early third trimester of he...

Natural mummification occurs in various favorable conditions. Cold environments have produced mummified human remains in northern Finland. These remains buried under the church floors mummified naturally probably through a process resembling freeze-drying. This chapter explores the conditions that led to the mummification of dozens and potentially...

This chapter studies children’s daily life in Pre-Roman Rome and Latium. Even though there is little clear evidence for children’s life in settlement contexts, the infant tombs dated between the final Bronze Age and Archaic period offer data to study the status of children in this area. Many infants have been found buried in settlement contexts, wh...

This chapter deals with the phenomenon of an intra-active clothed dead body in Northern Ostro-bothnian Finland from the 17th century to the middle of the 19th century. Ontologically, body and clothing may be considered inseparable, a phenomenon that is produced in ritual performance. The dead body and its funerary attire are approached through the...

The taphonomy of human remains and associated funerary textiles are inevitably linked. The interplay among burial clothes, human remains, insects, rodents, and preservation is explored through study of a group of postmedieval burials in Finland. These burials have been either archaeologically excavated or inventoried beneath wooden church floors. D...

Four coffins dating from the period between the mid-18th and mid-19th centuries from Keminmaa in northern Ostrobothnian Finland were examined using computed-tomography (CT) scanning, a methodology with research applications for exploring human remains, coffins, and funerary textiles. The age and, in two cases, sex of the remains were estimated, and...

Two ongoing projects at the University of Oulu, Finland, are studying burials situated below the floorboards of Finnish churches. The projects examine mortality and materiality in Finland using an exceptionally well-preserved assemblage of mummified human remains. Multidisciplinary research methods, including CT scanning, μCT scanning, sampling for...

Vicar Nikolaus Rungius’s (ca. 1560–1629) mummified remains have been the subject of research that has provided a wide variety of information on his life. This article examines the ways Rungius’s health and lifestyle highlight his status as a vicar, and this status is visible in his burial and funerary clothing. He was a relatively large man for his...

The 17th–19th century burial materials from northern Ostrobothnia are studied in order to consider the value, origin and meaning of textiles especially in child burials. The focus is on the preservation, quality and dyes of burial textiles unearthed at the yard of Oulu Cathedral as well as the clothes of the mummified bodies currently under the flo...

Priestly burials under North-Ostrobothnian Finnish church floors – Case studies from the 14th to 18th centuries Into the early 19th century, members of the highest classes in Finland were customarily buried beneath church floors. Throughout Finland, and particularly in northern Finland, a number of these church burials have preserved in excellent...

Mummified human remains have been preserved in the cool, well-ventilated crypts of old Finnish churches, which were popular burial sites among the elite of the early modern period. Here, the authors present the results of a computed tomography study of the remains of an early 17th-century vicar of Keminmaa. They examined the preservation of his rem...

This article explores the use and meaning of belts within four cultural regions with several centres of population in central Tyrrhenian Italy: the Etruscan, the Latin, the Faliscan and the Capenate regions. The main focus is on the Iron Age and the Archaic period. In these regions, lozenge-shaped and rectangular bronze belts and textile or leather...

According to an old saying "time is money".... This research paper is available through this link: http://pro.tsv.fi/pshy/julkaisut/Faravid_artikkelit/Faravid_38/Jarva-Lipkin/index.html

This doctoral thesis is a study on textile production in central Tyrrhenian Italy from the Final Bronze Age to the Republican period. Textile production is studied here through its technological, social and economic aspects. Tis dissertation presents new insights on the importance of textile-making in the ancient society and economy. Textiles and t...

In central Tyrrhenian Italy, textile tools have been found in three different kinds of contexts: settlements, burials and sanctuaries. Thus the implements represent the fact that textile-making was present in many aspects of life. In this article, I will concentrate on textile-making as a part of religious ritual in central Tyrrhenian Italy. In the...

This is a study on textile production in central Tyrrhenian Italy from the final Bronze Age to the Republican period. Textile production is studied here through its technological, social and economic aspects. Textiles and their making were important parts of all fields of life in ancient Italy. Textiles and textile implements are found from settlem...

This article concentrates on the performative nature of rituals at Sámi sacred sites called sieidi in northern Finland. These sites are usually natural objects, such as stones, unshaped by humans. Offerings, such as reindeer antlers, crania, meat, metal, and alcohol, were made to the sieidi in order to ensure future hunting success. In this article...

Strumporna på, med varma fötter i graven Strumpor är inte bara praktiska, de har också en social betydelse. Dessa betydelser kan skönjas i material- och teknikval, genom ekonomiska aspekter (pris, handel) och vanor. Då en människa väljer strumpor för sina fötter, finns det många bakgrundsfaktorer som gjort att just dessa strumpor bärs av denna männ...

At Oulu Cathedral. Finland, excavations have been conducted during renovations of the church and its yard. As a result more than 300 17th-and 18th-century burials were discovered. Many of the deceased were buried in a silk or wool funeral clothes made specifically for the burial. The burial customs varied, however, as some of the deceased were buri...

Updated version of this PhD thesis has been published at BAR International Series 2369 (2012). This doctoral thesis is a study on textile production in central Tyrrhenian Italy from the final Bronze Age to the Republican period. Textile production is studied here through its technological, social and economic aspects. This dissertation presents n...