The excavation of frozen bog burials in northern Finland
Many Eastern Creeks carry Sami DNA. Indeed . . . the oldest known human DNA found in the Southeastern United States . . . at Windover Pond, Florida . . . was Sami DNA. What the Florida archaeologists also didn’t tell you, more likely didn’t know, was that pond bottom burials are all over eastern Sweden, Finland and Karelia. They date from the same time period as Windover Pond.
Immediately after reporting for work at Landskrona, Sweden Stadsarkitektkontoret, my fellow employees started telling me that I looked like a Northern Sami. Initially, I had no clue what they were talking about, but eventually learned that the people that my high school Social Studies book called “Laplanders” call themselves Sami. In fact, everywhere I went in Sweden, Denmark and Norway, the locals thought I was a northern Sami. Southern Sami tend to have dishwater blond hair.
Life is a box of chocolates. In early August 1972, my boss was notified by the Swedish Royal Navy that was to be given 2 1/2 weeks paid leave on national security matters. I was first to take the train to Stockholm and stay in a old sailing ship in the harbor, where I would be oriented by the daughter of a Danish Royal Navy captain. I was then to take the train to Kiruna, Lapland, where I would meet up with a female NATO biologist. She was of Sami ancestry. I posed as a boyfriend, but functioned as a bodyguard as we traversed the remote regions of Lapland in her yellow VW Bug.
It was not until 2015, that I learned from a more precise DNA test that both my mother and my biological father had substantial Sami ancestry from a long, long time ago.
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