International Journal of Osteoarchaeology • Vol 32 • No 1
Military supply, everyday demand, and reindeer: Zooarchaeology of Nazi German Second World War military presence in Finnish Lapland, Northernmost Europe
September 2021 • Oula Seitsonen, Lee G. Broderick, Iain Banks, Mari Olafson Lundemo, Sanna Seitsonen, Vesa‐Pekka Herva
Abstract During the Second World War, in 1941–1944, Nazi German troops held the frontal responsibility of the Arctic front in Finnish Lapland. In this paper, we present the first zooarchaeological study of the wartime faunal remains from German military camps in Lapland. This illustrates the supply situation of both the German soldiers and their multinational prisoners. The official military supply was substantially supplemented with local food sources, namely, with the local semi‐domesticated reindeer that domina…