growth · After 750 CE findings increase · Typical feature in findings: Mixture of cultural influences from East, West and South but also local features common. Problem: Items do not speak, so they do not tell much about people and not even where they were manufactured; were they locally made or imported. A copper cauldron found in 1892 in Sakkola, Karelian Isthmus SPREAD OF KARELIANS Heartlands around Lake Ladoga and Kareliand Isthmus Karelian people and culture did have larger spreading from Arctic Ocean to lake Ilmen, from shores of lake Saimaa in present day Finland to Beloye Ozero in Russia. Karelians' settlements were also predominant on the shores of White Sea, along northern Dvina and in the northern part of Gulf of Bothnia. Povest vremennykh let (also called Nestor's Chronicle) speaks of the White Sea Karelians as zavolodskye chudy, "Chuds in Hinterland"
Finalnd; most of the population is dark-haired. This is because of the Finns` ancestry: the people who moved into the southwestern corner of today`s Finland from Estonia via the Baltic are referred to as `trans-Ural nomadic`. Three tribes settled in different areas; the Suomalaiset (the Finns` word for themselves) decided to remain in the southern coastal provinces, and quikly altered their nomadic lifestyle; the Häme lääni settled the lake region, and the Karelians settled the forest regions to the east. The name `Finland` dates back to Roman historian Tacitus (AD55-120). In his work Germania he mentioned a primitive people from the north called the Fenni; which was probably a reference to the Same (see below), who at that time were living on and around the 60th parallel. Over the centuries the Same were gradually pushed further north, and today they live in Finnish Lapland.
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