History of Finland and the Finnish People from ice age to WWII. During the final stages of the Ice Age, the body of water that eventually evolved into the Baltic Sea was a lake. From this vast stretch of water, a huge labyrinthine lake separated inside the land mass that was to become the Finnish peninsula and formed the tens of thousands of lakes of present- day Finland, as the earth's crust rose. However, the ground did not rise at an even rate everywhere, and, at times, the level of the sea rose, also forcing rivers into new discharge channels and submerging extensive areas of land again. It was during these upheavals of Nature that a number of the most ancient inhabited localities in the country vanished.

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However, as work continues, new finds shed a different light on prehistory of Finland. While the continental ice sheet and great bodies of water still covered most of Finland, a tundra, overgrown with dwarf birch, bordered the glacial margin, both in the north and in the south.

There, wild reindeer, Arctic fur- bearing animals, and- -in the coastal waters - - fish, offered primitive hunters and fishermen a chance to eke out a livelihood. From those coastal regions of the Arctic Ocean, north of the present national boundary of Finland, have come the most ancient relics of human culture ever discovered by Finnish archaeologists. These date back to approximately 8 0. B. C. The world's oldest fishing net is carbon dated at 1. It was found in 1. Korpilahti swamp at Antrea, Karelia.

At the bottom of the picture are bark floats; at the top, rock weights. The net was made of nettle fibers.

Nettle has been used for thousands of years, and for many applications including medicine. The Baltic shoreline moved south over millennia beginning when the Baltic was a giant freshwater lake fed by ice- melt. Both terrestrial and aquatic game were abundant. At this time, several ringed seal subspecies became land- locked in the inland waters. The oldest relics ever found in southern Finland are of slightly later origin, dating perhaps from 7. B. C. In those ancient times, there lived on the Finnish coast a simple people who made weapons of stone and bone, and who practiced hunting and fishing.

The established view was that these earliest known inhabitants of Finland had arrived mostly by land from eastern Europe. They came in from central Europe as well when Europeans became sailors and they also easily followed the coastline to Finland.

Many of these immigrants were actually Central European Finno- Ugrians who spoke a related language, but whose language was eventually buried under several layers of Germanic languages. Finnish tribes followed the ice north over thousands of years from their interglacial central European home, which is now established in the latest Mitochondrial DNA information. There is no doubt that "Finland" the area between Lake Onega and Norway has been inhabited for thousands of years, yet history books often make the mistake of stating that the Finns came to Finland sometime in the first millennium. Certainly there were Finns who arrived in "first centuries AD" but they did not fill a vacuum when they got there.

Ancestors of present- day Finns were hunters, trappers, agriculturists who came to Finland by way of the Baltic regions during the first centuries AD, spreading slowly from south and west to east and north. Swedish control over Finnish territory was established gradually beginning in the 1. Encyclopedia of the Nations, 2. This sounds like the Finns arrived much like the Slavs did, to claim the north for themselves, which is not accurate. Finland is full of archeological evidence that Baltic Finns/Karelians have lived there for thousands of years, fishing and hunting as usual. Waves of other Finnish immigrants arrived in the first Millennium, but they did not fill a vacuum. The indigenous population of Finland consists of the resident Finno- Ugric people and the Saami.

Only the Saami are considered indigenous because they are a minority but Finns themselves are indigenous as neither Saami nor Finns consist 1. Around the year 3 0. B. C., a new Stone Age culture, known as the Comb- Ceramic culture, spread throughout Finland. It took its name from an art that was introduced into Finland fully developed: the art of pottery- making. Watch The Other Side Of The Door Online Free 2016. The name of that culture also derived from the fact that they are decorated with a comb- like stamp. The people who created that pottery were still totally dependent on hunting and fishing for a living. The only domestic animal was the dog.

The dwelling places, which were changed frequently, were situated near waters that abounded in fish- -generally on open, sandy beaches. Trade relations appear to have been maintained mostly with peoples in the east and the southeast; flint was brought over from present day Russia, amber from East Prussia. The Comb- Ceramic culture belongs to the great northeastern European group of hunting and fishing cultures that extended from the Vistula River to the Arctic Ocean and all the way to Siberia. Archaeologists consider a culture new when its relics are found to have undergone a decisive change in character, but they cannot definitely determine whether the reason for the change was an entirely new population, an alien conquest, or simply a peaceful cultural interchange. The Comb- Ceramic people inherited their stone implements from an older, pre- Ceramic culture, which, at least, signifies that an unbroken contact with the earlier inhabitants of the country had existed. Some researchers assume that, during the middle phase of the Comb- Ceramic culture, new racial types from the plains of eastern Europe and from the Baltic regions merged with the indigenous population. On the basis of findings made east of Finland, anthropologists have ascertained that the Comb- Ceramic population was short, longskulled with an admixture of short- skulled "Mongoloid" types.

Where did the Finns come from? The Kyro people, who one author describes in his narration of "ancient" and "prehistoric" Finns, lived on the west coast of Finland in the first millennium. This author prefers to limit terms like prehistory to a much earlier time. The Varangians: Who were they? Historians often mention Varangians in connection with certain events on the Eastern shores of the Baltic and northern Russia.

Let's look at some explanations from different perspectives. The term is generally thought to come from Swedish, but some Finnish researchers, such as Kuussaari, claim it has a Finnish origin. According to one Finnish source, they are identified as "Scandinavians," but the original Varangians were probably actually Fenno- Scandians. Kuussaari, 1. 93. The Finns are conspicuous for their absence in both Swedish and Russian accounts. Varangians may have originally been Baltic Finns, distinguishable from Swedes by their Uralic language.

They lived on the shores of western Finland and Estonia/Livonia and the Baltic islands, and were later joined in their guard duties by Swedes, who were called Vikings. Kuussaari, 1. 93. This is called the "Riga, Åland, Gulf of Finland triangle." Vikings are often equated with Varangians, who came to consist of both Finns and Swedes as the latter turned Eastward and joined the Finns in the beginning of the second millennium, corresponding with the Swedish crusades to Finland.

Varangians never invaded the British Isles - they are called Vikings. Russian accounts suggest that eventually there were more than one kind of Varangian. They knew of several types of Varangians, and they generalized the term to include Swedes as the Finns became a part of the Swedish realm. A symbiotic relationship formed between the Finns and Swedes, who helped to fend off the Slavs.

But the relationship slowly turned parasitic in the beginning of the 1. Watch Pilgrimage Online Mic. Sweden benefited from the Finnish soldiers, but Finland suffered.) When the Vikings went East it was with and under the sanction of inhabitants of the Baltic shores - eg.

Tavastians, Karelians and Ingerians.