Vol. 26 No. 26 (2023): Dwelling Forms and Settlement Patterns on Russia’s Kola Peninsula Northern Coast, 2300–1500 cal. BC

Prehistoric dwelling depressions began to be discovered along the coast of northern Norway in the 1930s, and by the 1960s, hundreds had been registered. Most of these dwellings date to the Late Stone Age (5000–1800 BCE) and the Early Metal Age (1800–0 BCE), although some originate from the Mesolithic Stone Age (9000–5000 BCE). In the early 1990s, a collaborative project between Norwegian and Russian archaeologists identified numerous similar dwelling depressions on the Kola Peninsula. The first modern archaeological excavation of a dwelling depression on the Kola Peninsula took place at Drozdovka Bay in northeastern Kola during 1994, 1998, and 2000 as part of the Norwegian-Russian collaboration. This book presents the project's findings and places them in a broader context as part of the archaeology of the Kola Peninsula and northern Norway.