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In this chapter we synthesize the results of the 1960s–1990s fieldwork for interior Finnmark, the late 1950s to early 1960s and the early 2000s fieldwork for the Báhčeveaijohka/Pasvik river valley in eastern Finnmark, and the 1970s to early 2000s fieldwork for interior Troms. We also include some previously unpublished data. We begin with a presentation and reassessment of the groundbreaking investigations of medieval sites at Juntavađđa and Ássebákti, after which the results from the early 1970s surveys in central Finnmark are summarized. Several excavated sites are selected for brief presentation, in order to portray some of their range of variation and to provide data that will be referred to in later chapters. We then provide an overview of the 1980s–1990s investigations along the ÁlttáeatnuGuovdageaineatnu/Altaelva-Kautokeinoelva, before moving on to a presentation of the investigations along the Báhčeveaijohka/Pasvikelva. Finally, the Troms investigations are presented. The chapter concludes with a consideration of how these previous investigations set the stage for the LARM project. This section also includes an overview of some of the results from a cultural heritage registration campaign in central Finnmark in the 1980s not originally designed to include prehistoric sites, but where a fortunate local initiative has provided us with a large number of archaeological sites. This illustrates the potential for identifying a variety of sites when a project is not geographically restricted by developmental plans, typically close to the major waterways, as is the case for all the other registration campaigns presented here.