Title: Proiskhozhdenie saamov
Description: "On the base of complex studying of the wide circle of sources on anthropology, archaeology, linguistics and toponymy it has been found out that there were two genetic components in Saami forming: Pre- Finn people of the Textile Ceramics Culture (Bronze Age) and the Povolzhskaya Culture population from the first stage of the Early Iron Age. They spoke pre-finnish language and had both European and Mongol features of the physical type. The beginning of the Saami genesis coincides with the penetration of the Povolzhskaya Culture to the European North in 6-5 centuries B. C. The ancient Saami cultural community emerged as a result of the contacts between Povolzhskaya and local Textile Ceramics Cultures. It contained of 3 relative Cultures: Late Kargopol (in the White Lake, Kargopol and the south-east Karelia areas), Luukonsaari (in the White Lake, Kargopol and the south-east Karelia areas), Luukonsaari (in the eastern Finland and western Karelia) and Kjelmo or Arctic on the territory of
Subjects: Sami (European people), Antiquities, Material culture, Sami language, Geographical Names