Kitkan (Kuusamon Lehtoniemen) noidan luurangon tutkimustuloksia:
- Mies, kuoli noin 40 vuotiaana.
- Pituus noin 156 cm.
- Ei sittenkään ammuksenreikiä kallossa.
- Tehnyt eläessään myös raskasta työtä ja ollut ilmeisen lihaksikas.
http://www.sarks.fi/fa/PDF/FA27_97.pdfJa kopsataan tähän toisaalta vielä geneetikkojen esitelmän tiivistelmä:
Sanni Peltola: The Noaidi of Giggajávri (Fi. Kitka) - Life history of a Sámi shaman found in Kuusamo, Finland
In 1970, a shallow burial containing the remains of a middle-aged man was discovered in Kuusamo, North-East Finland. The burial goods included artefacts associated with Sámi cultural heritage, such as a drum hammer and bronze rings, and the individual was interpreted as a noaidi, a Sámi shaman. The burial dates to the turn of the 16th and 17th centuries, when Kuusamo was home to the Kemi Sámi, an indigenous group who spoke a now-extinct southern Sámi language. Today, the area is occupied by Finns – Finnish immigration to the area started in the 17th century and the local Sámi-speaking communities disappeared in the 19th century. The individual is the only currently known pre-modern individual from Kuusamo, and his remains have drawn interest in both researchers and the public. Here, we studied the life history of the individual using archaeogenetics and isotopes of carbon, nitrogen, oxygen and strontium. Our results show that the individual’s ancestry is consistent with his presumed connection to Sámi, and he likely represents the local Kemi Sámi group. Despite the genetic similarity, we found that present-day Sámi carry more West European ancestry than our studied individual does. Therefore, it is possible that Kemi Sámi differed from the more northern Sámi, or that the present-day Sámi received West European gene flow during the last centuries. We also compared the new genetic data to contemporary Finnish-speaking inhabitants of Kuusamo, but found no evidence of extensive Sámi-related contribution in them. The isotopes clarify the individual’s lifetime mobility and livelihood and indicate that he was highly mobile during his lifetime. The strontium values representing early childhood are consistent with expected values for the bedrock of Finland, but values reflecting the individual’s place of residence during adolescence are highly unusual for Finland. The low values of oxygen, together with dietary modelling, may hint towards the coast of the Arctic Ocean.
Eli noita on geneettisesti saamelainen, eikä autosomaalisella tasolla sukulaisia näytä löytyneen nykykuusamolaisista. Aikasyvyys on kuitenkin jo sellainen, että yksittäisen esivanhemman perimän osuus olisi enää prosentin murto-osia, joten todistaneeko tuo mitään. Tarkka isälinja-analyysi voisi tuottaakin osumia, toivottavasti joskus sellainenkin tehdään.