Finnish archaeologist and politician (1872–1933)
Julius Ailio (19 July 1872 – 4 March 1933) was a Finnish archaeologist and a
Social Democratic politician. His archaeological work involved the
Stone Age and
Early Metal Age
[a] in
Karelia , especially
the isthmus .
Biography
On 19 July 1872, Ailio was born in
Loppi ,
Grand Duchy of Finland ,
Russian Empire [
citation needed ] to a school teacher and future
Social Democratic member of
Finnish parliament .
[3]
In 1906, he excavated
Räisälä
Papinkangas .
[4] Between 1909 and 1912, he excavated dwelling sites
Riukjärvi and
Piiskunsalmi . He also researched shore displacement at
Lake Ladoga , creating the first model of its history, a history late 19th-century
geologists and archaeologists had already found unique for its deviation from the standard
land uplift model. In 1909 and 1910, he with
Kaarle Soikkeli [
fi ]
salvage excavated
Häyrynmäki in
Viipuri Province .
[5] From his 1909 excavations he first identified the
Kiukainen culture
[6] and
Corded Ware as distinct
archaeological cultures , referring to the latter as Alastaro pottery.
[7] In 1915, he excavated
Heinjoki Vetokallio.
[8]
In 1917, during
Oskari Tokoi 's chairmanship of the
Senate of Finland , he served in the body with
Väinö Tanner ,
Väinö Voionmaa ,
Wäinö Wuolijoki ,
Matti Paasivuori , and six bourgeoise representatives.
[9]
Ailio (third standing on the left) at
Aarne Michaël Tallgren 's house on 3 September 1920
In 1921, he expressed study facial features, skin color, and hair structure as less important than the skeleton and inner organs in
anthropology .
[10] In Fragen der russischen Steinzeit (1922) Ailio responded to
Aarne Michaël Tallgren 's conceptualization of Russian Bronze Age cultures, being the third Finnish scholar to do so. Timo Salminen characterized it as bitter and an exercise to prove his knowledge for the archaeology professorship at
Helsinki University . Ailio did not believe the
Comb Ceramic culture and
Fat'janavo related. He considered the latter's pottery connected to
Central Europe , the
Kuban , and the
Tripolye culture , but did not know the main origin. He rejected Allgren's assumption of it being primarily Central European and regarded the culture to be a "broader chronological phenomenon".
[11] In the article he also considered a
Pärnu figurine as a Muttergott (
Mother-God ) based on similar findings with the Tripolye.
[12] In 1923, Ailio rejected the notion
Giant's Churches were former Stone Age man-made structures and instead labeled them as shore formations.
[13]
Head of
prehistory of the
National Board of Antiquities , in late 1922, he was appointed chairman of a committee responsible for the cooperation of local museums, with the proposer,
Julius Finnberg [
fi ] , as secretary; the project received support from the state archeologist
Hjalmar Appelgren-Kivalo [
fi ] . Its first
academic conference convened in January 1923 at the
National Museum and was attended by 52 representatives. Also involved in the establishment of the
Finnish Museums Association , when Ailio became
Minister of Education in 1927, the association was subsidized.
[14]
In 1930, he signed a manifesto denouncing militarization and conscription.
[15]
In 1932, excavated
Muolaa Kuusaa Kannilanjoki.
[8]
Ailio's grave in
Kauniainen
On 4 March 1933, he died in
Helsinki .[
citation needed ]
Works
Kansatieteellinen kuvaus ulkohuonerakennuksista Lopella (1896)
Kesäkausi Jäämeren ja Vienanmeren rannoilla matkamuistelma (1899)
Burg Tavastehus, ihre Entwickelung und ihr Alter (1901)
Hämeenlinna sen vaiheet ja sen rakennukset (1901)
Lopen asunnot eri kehitysasteissaan (1902)
Jääkausi ja sen jälkeiset ajat erityisesti Suomen oloja silmällä pitäen (1903)
Raseporin linnanrauniot kuvallinen matkaopas (1905)
Die steinzeitlichen Wohnplatsfunde in Finland I- II . Helsinki:
Finnische Altertumsgesellschaft . (1909)
Elämästä Suomessa noin 4000 vuotta sitte, kirj. Kansanvalistusseuran kalenteri 1911: kolmaskymmenesensimmäinen vuosikerta. (1911)
Die geographische Entwicklung des Ladogasees im postglacialer Zeit und ihre Beziehung zur steinzeitlichen Besiedlung . Fennia 38-3. Helsinki. (1915)
Novgorodilaisten retki Hämeeseen v. 1311 (1915)
Hämeenlinnan kaupungin historia. 1 (1917)
Fragen der russischen Steinzeit .
Suomen Muinaismuistoyhdistyksen Aikakauskirja Vol. XXIX No. 1. Helsinki. (1922)
Karjalaiset soikeat kupurasoljet – katkelmia Karjalan koristetyylin kehityshistoriasta (1922)
Hämeen museon opas (1922; multiple editions)
Ovatko Pohjanmaan "jättiläislinnat" muinaisjäännöksiä? ,
Suomen Museo XXIX, 1–19 (1923)
See also
Sources
Notes
Citations
^ Wickler, Stephen (2019).
"Early Boats in Scandinavia: New Evidence from Early Iron Age Bog Finds in Arctic Norway" .
Journal of Maritime Archaeology . 14 (2): 190.
Bibcode :
2019JMarA..14..183W .
doi :
10.1007/s11457-019-09232-1 .
hdl :
10037/16601 .
ISSN
1557-2285 .
JSTOR
45218713 .
S2CID
255273921 .
^ Jensen, Christin (2004).
"The vegetation history of a coastal stone-age and iron-age settlement at 70°N, Norway" .
Vegetation History and Archaeobotany . 13 (4): 269–284.
Bibcode :
2004VegHA..13..269J .
doi :
10.1007/s00334-004-0046-7 .
ISSN
0939-6314 .
JSTOR
23419590 .
S2CID
140630365 .
^
Vilkuna (1970) , p. 19
^
Carpelan et al. (2008) , p. 17
^ Gerasimov, Dmitri; Halinen, Petri; Lavento, Mika; Saksa, Alexander; Timofeev, Vladimir (2001).
"An archaeological field survey of Stone Age and Early Metal Period settlement at Kaukola (Sevastyanovo) and Räisälä (Melnikovo) on the Karelian Isthmus in 1999" . Fennoscandia Archaeologica (XVIII): 6, 9.
ISSN
0781-7126 .
^ Soisalo, Janne; Roiha, Johanna (19 September 2022).
"Kiukainen Culture Site Locations—Reflections from the Coastal Lifestyle at the End of the Stone Age" .
Land . 11 (9): 1606.
doi :
10.3390/land11091606 .
hdl :
10138/349465 .
ISSN
2073-445X .
^ Nordqvist, Kerkko; Häkälä, Piritta (2014). "DISTRIBUTION OF CORDED WARE IN THE AREAS NORTH OF THE GULF OF FINLAND - AN UPDATE".
Estonian Journal of Archaeology . 18 (1). Tallinn: 3.
ISSN
1736-7484 .
^
a
b
Carpelan et al. (2008) , p. 23
^
Hodgeson, John H. (1967). "Two. From Parliamentary Socialism to Revolutionary Socialism". Communism in Finland: A History and Interpretation . Princeton:
Princeton University Press . p. 25.
ISBN
9781400875627 – via
De Gruyter .
^ Elmgren, Ainur (2022). "Imperial Complicity: Finns and Tatars in the Political Hierarchy of Races".
Finnishness, Whiteness and Coloniality .
Helsinki University Press . p. 327.
ISBN
978-952-369-072-1 .
JSTOR
j.ctv2vm3bb6.16 .
^ Salminen, Timo (5 April 2017).
"Aarne Michaël Tallgren and the International Discussion on the Bronze Age of Russia" .
Bulletin of the History of Archaeology . 27 (1): 7.
doi :
10.5334/bha-553 .
ISSN
1062-4740 .
OCLC
24683018 .
^ Jonuks, Tönno (2016).
"A MESOLITHIC HUMAN FIGURINE FROM RIVER PÄRNU, SOUTH-WEST ESTONIA: A CENTURY-OLD PUZZLE OF IDOLS, GODDESSES AND ANCESTRAL SYMBOLS" . Estonian Journal of Archaeology . 20 (2): 111–127.
doi :
10.3176/arch.2016.2.01 .
^ Sipilä, Joonas; Lahelma, Antti (2006).
"War as a Paradigmatic Phenomenon: Endemic Violence and the Finnish Subneolithic" .
Journal of Conflict Archaeology . 2 (1): 193.
doi :
10.1163/157407706778942259 .
ISSN
1574-0773 .
JSTOR
48601913 .
S2CID
162558713 .
^
Vilkuna (1970) , pp. 19–20, 32
^
"JOINT PEACE COUNCIL" .
Kadina and Wallaroo Times .
Kadina . 22 October 1930. p. 4.
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