In this study it is asked, if the Bronze and Iron Age burial cairns in the SW archipelago of Finland might be interpreted as monuments establishing a link between the landscape and the religious context of symbolic meanings, thus making it meaningful to examine the spatial references of grave sites.

At the archaeological site of Papinniemi in Uukuniemi, eastern Finland, a Greek Orthodox church, a cemetery and a village have been situated in the 15th-17th centuries.

An international team of archaeologists has confirmed the discovery of the first inland site of the Preboreal phase of the Komsa Culture in northern Finland. Antiquity Vol 78 No 301 September 2004.

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