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Seitsonen Oula

Postdoctoral Researcher

Description

I am an archaeologist and geographer, and through the years I have been occupied with whatever has paid my bills, e.g. the archaeology of pastoralist societies in Mongolia, East Africa and Fennoscandia, GIS and remote sensing applications in archaeology, and the past of Lapland’s wilderness areas. I have acted, for instance, as a field archaeologist, cartographer, surveying equipments salesman, and GIS engineer, for example in northern Siberia, Alaska, and Norway. I have been studying since 2006 the Second World War archaeologies in northern Finland, and in my PhD I marveled the landscapes and materialities of Hitler's Arctic war, for example how the various communities have related, signified and engaged with those. I also work with, for instance, the archaeological applications of the airborne laser scanning (LiDAR) data, the early pastoralism in Mongolia, the domestication of reindeer in Sápmi, the Finnish Second World War heritage, and the geophysical and remote sensing methods to locate clandestine Second World War mass graves.

Keywords

Archaeology, Geography, Pastoralism, GIS, Cultural Heritage

Affiliations

University of Oulu
Postdoctoral Researcher
Primary
Arkeologia
2023 - 2024
Primary
Source: University of Oulu

Education (3)

PhD
University of Helsinki
Master of Science
University of Helsinki
Master of Arts
University of Helsinki

Publications (27)

2023
Detecting the Archaeological Traces of Tar Production Kilns in the Northern Boreal Forests Based on Airborne Laser Scanning and Deep Learning
DOI
10.3390/rs15071799
2022
Resilient herders
DOI
10.1016/j.ara.2022.100371
2021
Kolari marketplace in a multicultural landscape between Sámi, Swedes and Finns

Granted funding (2)

Glacial and snowpatch archaeology in Sápmi, northernmost Finland
Kulturfonden för Sverige och Finland
2021 - 2022
Finnish-Mongolian Pälsi-Ramstedt Trail
Nordenskiöld-Samfundet
2019 - 2020