Blurb:

The empirical evidence for the emergence of hunting-embedded herding and pastoralism in northern Norway is discussed with a combination of archaeological evidence and written sources form the early modern period. The archaeological data include rock art, reindeer hunting facilities such as corrals and hunting-pit systems, changes in settlement patterns, medieval and early modern archaeological sites, the summed probabilities of radiocarbon dates, and data from molecular genetics. A variety of documentary evidence is summarized, with a particular focus on the early modern Swedish state tax records for interior Finnmark and the 1605 Swedish reindeer inventory.