Academic CV

Personal details22a5ffd8-2790-4813-96ea-80723bcacfd3

  • Väre, Tiina (former Heikkilä)
  • ORCID: 0000-0002-6558-5359
  • 1982
  • Finnish
  • tiina.vare@helsinki.fi

Education and degrees completed

  • 29 May, 2017, Doctor of Philosophy, Humanities, Archaeology, University of Oulu, Finland
  • 24 Nov, 2016, Master of Science (Economy and Business Administration), Management,  Oulu Business School, Finland
  • 25 Nov, 2010, Master of Arts, Humanities, Archaeology, University of Oulu, Finland

Other education and special courses

  • 1 Aug 2023 – Radiography and radiation therapy, OAMK.
  • 9 – 20 Apr, 2018 and 31 Jul – 6 Aug, 2018, preparing stable isotope samples for analyses. University of Helsinki, the Laboratory of Chronology, Finnish Museum of Natural History (PhD L. Arppe) 10 – 14 Feb, 2014, Stable isotope short course, Finnish Graduate School of Geology, University of Helsinki (Prof. em. Thure Cerling, Geology & Geophysics, Mines and Earth Sciences, University of Utah)
  • 18 Mar – 18 June, ERASMUS trainee, Laboratorio de Antropología Física, Universidad de Granada

Language skills

  • Finnish: native
  • English: fluent
  • Swedish: intermediate

Current position

  • 1 Sep, 2023 – July 31, 2024 Post doctoral researcher (with grant) in the Kotiseutumme jäljet – esihistoriallisen ajan alkuperätutkimusta luuston isotooppisignaalien nykysystematiikan valossa -project funded by Kone Foundation and led by PhD Laura Arppe, Laboratory of Chronology, Finnish Museum of Natural History, University of Helsinki, Finland
  • 1 Jan, 2023 – Dec 31, 2024, Editor in chief (shared position) of Fennoscandia Archaeologica Journal (JUFO 2)
  • 1 April, 2023 – Dec 31, 2024, Editor in chief (shared position) of Muinaistutkija journal  

Previous academic work experience

  • March 1, 2023 – Aug 31, 2023, Postdoctoral researcher, University of Oulu
  • March 1, 2019 – Feb 28, 2023, Postdoctoral researcher, Academy of Finland, University of Oulu. Breastfeeding, weaning, and nutrition in Post-medieval Finland. Nitrogen and carbon stable isotope analyses of dentin collagen Decision No. 323428
  • Oct 1, 2019 – Feb 29, 2020, post doc researcher, Suomalainen tiedeakatemia, Eino Jutikkala Foundation. Guest researcher, Archaeological Research Laboratory, University of Stockholm
  • Apr 1, 2017 – Sep 31, 2019, Post doc research, Church, space, and memory project, Emil Aaltonen Foundation.
  • Sep 1 – Nov 30, 2016, PhD student, The Scholarship Fund of the University of Oulu: Yliopiston apteekin rahasto fund, archaeology, Faculty of Humanities, University of Oulu
  • Oct 1, 2015 – Mar 31, 2016, PhD student, archaeology, Faculty of Humanities, University of Oulu
  • March 15 – June 15, 2015 PhD student, The Scholarship Fund of the University of Oulu: Anna Esteri Timola fund, archaeology, Faculty of Humanities, University of Oulu
  • Aug 4 – 8, 2014, research assistant, excavations in Juovvagielas, Kilpisjärvi (MA S. Viljanmaa)
  • Dec 1, 2013 – May 31, 2014, PhD student, archaeology, Faculty of Humanities, University of Oulu
  • Oct 1, 2011 – Jan 31, 2012, PhD student, archaeology, Faculty of Humanities, University of Oulu
  • June 13 – Sep 30, 2011, PhD student, The University of Oulu Scholarship Foundation, archeology, Faculty of Humanities, University of Oulu
  • Oct 1, 2009 – Jan 31, 2010, research assistant, The body size, body shape and skeletal robusticity of Post-Pleistocene Europeans project, (Doc. M. Niskanen) Academy of Finland, archaeology, Faculty of Humanities, University of Oulu
  • July 27 – Sep 9, 2009, assistant consultant in osteology, excavations of the discontinued cemetery of Iin Hamina, (PhD T. Kallio-Seppä) Finnish National Board of Antiquities

Career breaks

  • October 2006 – September 2008, Maternity leave 

Personal research funding and grants

  • 1st March 2019 – 28th Feb. 2023, Postdoctoral researcher, Academy of Finland.
  • 1st Oct. 2019 –  29th Feb. 2020, working grant for post doc research. Breastfeeding and stable isotopes. Suomalainen tiedeakatemia, Eino Jutikkala foundation, Post doc pool
  • 1st Apr. 2017 – 30th Sep. 2019, working grant for post doc research, Church, space, and memory project, Emil Aaltonen Foundation
  • 1st Sep. – 30th Nov. 2016, working grant for PhD studies, The Scholarship Fund of the University of Oulu: Yliopiston apteekin rahasto fund
  • 1st Oct. 2015 – 31st Mar. 2016, working grant for PhD studies, Faculty of Humanities, University of Oulu
  • 15th Mar. – 15th June 2015, working grant for PhD studies, The Scholarship Fund of the University of Oulu: Anna Esteri Timola fund
  • 1st Dec. 2013 – 31st May 2014, working grant for PhD studies, Faculty of Humanities, University of Oulu
  • 1st Oct. 2011 – 31st Jan. 2012, working grant for PhD studies, Faculty of Humanities, University of Oulu
  • 13th June – 30th Sep. 2011, The University of Oulu Scholarship Foundation
  • Participated in producing the research plan for the grant application of Church, space, and memory project 2017–2019, Emil Aaltonen foundation (PhD T. Kallio-Seppä)

Leadership and supervision experience

  • Officially appointed supervisor of undergraduate students: secondary supervisor, bachelor’s thesis, Niina Peuraniemi, 2011; responsible supervisor, bachelor’s thesis, Janni Tasanko, 2018
  • Officially appointed supervisor of postgraduate students: secondary supervisor, doctoral thesis, MA Niina Korpinen, estimated graduation date: 2020
  • Geophysical research and documentation at the Tyrnävä old churchyard, summer 2017, leader of the field work

Teaching experience

  • Spring 2023, Tunteet, stressi ja hyvinvointi arkeologiassa course (multiple lecturers)
  • 3rd Nov. – 11th Dec. 2014, lecturer, Johdatusta biologiseen antropologiaan course, basic studies, archaeology, Faculty of Humanities, University of Oulu
  • 10th Sep. – 18th Oct. 2012, lecturer, Johdatusta biologiseen antropologiaan course, basic studies, archaeology, Faculty of Humanities, University of Oulu
  • Spring 2010, 2011, lecturer, Fyysinen antropologia course, basic studies (multiple lecturers), archaeology, Faculty of Humanities, University of Oulu

Experience of organizing scientific meetings

  • Aug 4 – 5, 2023, Emotions, childhood, and minorities in the archeological research seminar (S. Lipkin & T. Väre), University of Oulu
  • 10th Sep. 2021, EAA 2021. The Material Culture of Attachment: Social Bonds, Childhood and Emotionally Important Objects. Session organizers: Lipkin S, Bell T, Väre T
  • 18th March – 18th May 2021, Fragile mind, wellbeing and madness during the early modern and modern periods. Academy of Finland funded online lecture series (March–May 2021).  Organized by Sanna Lipkin & Tiina Väre.
  • 14th Sep. 2019, Aineen taidemuseo, Tornio. Toinen jalka haudassa – Juhlaseminaari Juhani Kostetille. Organizers: Kallio-Seppä T, Lipkin S, Tranberg A, Väre T.
  • 4th – 7th Sep. 2019, EAA 2019, Bern, Switzerland. European crypt burials – a heritage at risk between science and public display. Session organizers: Majorek M, Alterauge Amelie, Väre T, Grömer K.
  • 9th – 12th Jan. 2019,  SHA 2019 Conference on Historical and Underwater Archaeology. St. Charles, Missouri, USA. Session: Burial, Space, and Memory of Unusual Death, session organizers: Kallio-Seppä T, Lipkin S, Moilanen U, Väre T.
  • 25th – 28th Apr. 2012, XII NTAG conference, University of Oulu, volunteering assistant

Peer-reviewed scientific papers

  • Junno, J.-A., Väre, T., Tikkanen, J., Heino, M., Niskanen, M., Kakko, I., Honka, J., Kallio-Seppä, T., Kvist, L., Harmoinen, J., Aspi, J. Stable isotope analyses of carbon and nitrogen from hair keratin of suspected man-eating wolves from 1880’s? Scientific Reports (Under review).
  • Väre, T., Arppe, L., Lipkin, S., Kallio-Seppä, T., Finnilä, M., Junno, J.-A., Tranberg, A. The noble diets in Kourla Manor according to bone collagen δ13C and ẟ15N analyses – A comparative study between three Southern Finnish populations. Historical Archaeology (Under review). 
  • Kallio-Seppä T, Junno J-A, Lipkin S, Väre T, Tranberg A. 2023. Majuri Toll, kahteen kertaan haudattu – Hautakappeli siunaamattomalla maalla kirkkohautaustavan murrosajalta. Historiallinen aikakauskirja.
  • Väre T, Finnilä M, Palosaari S. Hammaskiilteen sukupuolidimorfisten amelogeniinien peptidianalyysi osana osteoarkeologista menetelmäpakettia. Muinaistutkija 1/2023.
  • Väre T, Kallio-Seppä T, Lipkin S, Finnilä M. 2023. Breastfeeding in Late Medieval to Early Modern Iin Hamina, Finland, according to δ13C and δ15N Analyses of Archaeological Dentin. Arctic Anthropology 59(1): 56–69. DOI:10.3368/aa.59.1.56 
  • Väre T, Lipkin S, Núñez M. 2022. Notes on early childhood diets in early modern Oulu, Finland, based on the stable isotope case studies of archaeological dentin. International Journal of Osteoarchaeology 32(6), 1275– 1284. DOI:10.1002/oa.3164 
  • Väre T, Harris AJT, Finnilä M, Lidén K. 2022. Breastfeeding in low-income families of the turn of the 19th-century town of Rauma, Southwestern Finland, according to stable isotope analyses of archaeological teeth. Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports 44:103521. 
  • Väre T, Arppe L, Fjellström M, Núñez M, Lidén K. Diets in three Late Medieval to Early Modern coastal populations in Finland according to the δ13C and δ15N values of archaeological bone and dentin collagen. Fennoscandia Archaeologica XXXIX: 96-117. 
  • Väre T. Varhaismoderni imetysongelma. Luonnontieteet humanistin palveluksessa. Matkaopas lapsuuden historian tutkimukseen. Historiallisia Toimituksia. SHS. (Accepted for publication)
  • Väre T, Ruohonen J. 2022. Taken to the Island: Temporary Burials in Early and Late Modern Periods in Finnish Periphery.  In: Unusual Death and Memorialization: Burial, Space, and Memory in the Post-Medieval North. Kallio-Seppä T, Lipkin S, Väre T, Moilanen U, Tranberg A. 2022, Berghahn Books, New York.
  • Kallio-Seppä T, Väre T. 2022. Memory of Epidemic Diseases in Finland: Old Disease Cemeteries and Modern Urban Planning. Unusual Death and Memorialization: Burial, Space, and Memory in the Post-Medieval North. Kallio-Seppä T, Lipkin S, Väre T, Moilanen U, Tranberg A. 2022, Berghahn Books, New York.
  • Väre, T., Lipkin, S., Kallio-Seppä, T., Tranberg, A., Junno, J.-A. 2021. Possible case of partial postmortem fetal extrusion: Preliminary observations on the mummified remains of a turn-of-the-19th-century noblewoman in Finland. International Journal of Osteoarchaeology, 1–5. 
  • Väre, T., Tranberg, A., Lipkin, S., Kallio-Seppä, T., Väre, L., Junno, J-A., Niinimäki, S., Nurminen, N., Kuha, A.  2021. Temperature and Humidity in the Base-floors of Three Northern Finnish Churches Containing 17th–19th-century Burials. In Acta Universitatis Lodziensis, Folia Archaeologica 35:189–215, Majorek M, Ławrynowicz O (eds.). Lódź University Press. 
  • Väre, T., Lipkin, S., Suomela, J.A. Vajanto K. Nikolaus Rungius: Lifestyle and Status of an Early Seventeenth-Century Northern Finnish Vicar. Hist Arch (2020).
  • Junno, JA, Oura P, Niskanen M, Väre T, Ruotsalainen M, Pietikäinen R, Niinimäki J, Nurminen N, Karppinen J, Auvinen J, Eriksson T, Tuukkanen J. 2020. Improving anatomical stature estimation method. The relationship between living stature and intervertebral disc thickness.  13;71(1):37-42. doi: 10.1127/homo/2020/1034.
  • Korpinen, N., Oura, P., Väre, T., Niskanen, M., Niinimäki, J., Karppinen, J., Junno, JA. 2020. Temporal Trends in Vertebral Dimensions – a case study from Finland. Scientific Reports 10, 1635 (2020).
  • Väre T. 2019. Oliko kirkkoherra Rungius aikansa miesihanteen ilmentymä? S. Lipkin, T. Kallio-Seppä, A. Tranberg & T. Väre (eds.), Toinen jalka haudassa. Juhlakirja Juhani Kostetille. Waasa Graphics, University of Oulu: 123-131.
  • Lipkin S, Väre T & Kallio-Seppä T. 2018. Pappissäädyn haudat Pohjois-Pohjanmaan kirkkojen lattioiden alla – Tapaustutkimuksia 1300–1700-luvuilta.  Thanatos 7(2)/2018: 60–89.
  • Väre T, Galassi FM, Niinimäki J & Junno J. 2018. Potential Case of Gynecomastia in Mummified Remains of an Early Modern Period Northern Finnish Vicar. Clinical Anatomy 31(5): 641–644. DOI:10.1002/ca.23187
  • Väre T, Vilkama R, Niinimäki S, Niskanen M, Núñez M, Niinimäki J & Junno JA. 2017. Computed Tomography Analysis of Dental Health of a Northern Finnish Early 17th-century Vicar. Faravid 43/2017: 5–20.
  • Väre T, Junno JA, Niinimäki J, Niskanen M, Niinimäki S, Núñez M, Tuukkanen J, Tranberg A, Heino M, Lipkin S, Tuovinen S, Vilkama R, Ylimaunu T & Kallio-Seppä T. 2016. Computed tomography of mummified human remains in old Finnish churches, a case study: the mummified remains of a 17th-century vicar revisited. Post-Medieval Archaeology 50(2): 368–379. 
  • Väre T, Niinimäki J, Junno JA, Núñez M, Niinimäki S & Niskanen M. 2016. Suspected tuberculosis in an early 17th-century northern Finnish mummy – A computed tomography case study. International Journal of Paleopathology 14: 69–73. 
  • Väre T, Núñez M, Niinimäki J, Junno JA, Niinimäki S, Vilkama R & Niskanen M. 2015. Fame after Death: The Unusual Story of a Finnish Mummy and Difficulties Involving its Study. Thanatos 4(2)/2015: 69–77. https://thanatosjournal.files.wordpress.com/2016/01/thanatos-vol-4-issue-2-20152.pdf
  • Junno JA, Paananen M, Karppinen J, Niinimäki J, Niskanen M, Maijanen H, Väre T, Järvelin M, Nieminen M, Tuukkanen J & Ruff C. 2015. Age-related trends in vertebral dimension. Journal of Anatomy 226(5): 434–439.
  • Lipkin S, Vajanto K, Kallio-Seppä T, Kuokkanen T, Niinimäki S, Väre T & van Bommel M. 2015. Funeral dress and textiles in 17th and 19th century burials in Ostrobothnia, Finland. K. Grömer (ed.), Proceeding of the XII NESAT Conference at Hallstatt, 2014: 209–222.
  • Non-peer-reviewed scientific papers
  • Väre T. Breastfeeding signals from early modern Haukipudas? Festschrift, 177–189. (Painossa 2023)
  • Väre T. 2023. Imetysongelmista – Rintaruokintatavat varhaismodernissa Oulussa ja 1800-luvun taitteen Raumalla hammasluun stabiili-isotooppianalyysien mukaan. Memory of the Future. Juhlakirja Timo Ylimaunulle. T. Matila, M. Hyttinen, R. Nurmi & T. Kallio-Seppä (eds.). Oulun yliopisto: Oulu: 22–28.
  • Núñez, M., Väre, T, Lopez-Costas, O, Trandberg A. 2021. Conditions contributing to the natural mummification of corpses deposited below North Finnish churches. Canarias Arqueológica, 22: 423-436. http://doi.org/10.31939/canarq//2021.22.36
  • Kallio-Seppä T, Lipkin S, Väre T, Tranberg A. Gravarna under Torneå kyrkans golv. Norrbottens museums årsbok 2020-21: 48-75.
  • Nurminen N, Lipkin S, Kuha A, Väre T, Marjakangas S, Niskanen M & Junno JA. 2018. Experimental mummification in Northern Finland. Fennoscandia archaeologica XXXIV: 146–151.
  • Väre T. 2017. Keminmaan vanhan kirkon muumion merkityksestä. Lectio praecursoria 28.4.2017. Muinaistutija 3/2017: 19-25.
  • Väre T, Nurminen N, Niinimäki J, Junno JA & Niskanen M. 2016. Harris Lines in the Late medieval to Early Modern Skeletal Material from the Oulu Cathedral and Iin Hamina Churchyards. Fennoscandia archaeologica XXXIII: 83–87.
  • Kallio-Seppä T, Väre T, Heino M, Junno JA, Lipkin S, Niinimäki J, Niinimäki S, Niskanen M, Núñez M, Tranberg A, Tuovinen S, Vilkama R & Ylimaunu T. 2016. Suhonen, M. (ed.) Pohjois-Suomen kirkkomuumiot – muuttuvien olosuhteiden vaikutukset muumioiden säilymiseen. Arkeologipäivät 2013. Suomen arkeologian ajankohtaiset tutkimushankkeet: 39–49. Suomen arkeologinen seura, Helsinki.
  • Väre T, Lipkin S, Niinimäki J, Niinimäki S, Kallio-Seppä T, Junno JA, Núñez M, Niskanen M, Heino M, Tranberg A, Tuovinen S, Vilkama R & Ylimaunu T. 2016. 3-Dimensional Archaeological Excavation of Burials Utilizing Computed Tomography Imaging. Campana, S., Scopigno, R., Carpentiero, G. & Cirillo, M. (eds.) CAA 2015, Keep the revolution going. Proceedings of the 43rd Annual Conference on Computer Applications and Quantitative Methods in Archaeology 1. Oxford, Archeopress: 133–142.
  • Väre T, Heino M, Junno JA, Lipkin S, Niinimäki J, Niinimäki S, Niskanen M, Núñez M, Tranberg A, Tuovinen S, Vilkama R, Ylimaunu T & Kallio-Seppä T. 2014. Kempeleen ja Keminmaan vanhojen kirkkojen muumiot. Muinaistutkija 1: 17–32.
  • Väre T, Peuraniemi N & Niinimäki S. 2013. Are the cribra orbitalia incidences in 15th to 16th century Ii Hamina skeletal material indicative of malaria? Malgosa A, Isidro A, Ibáñez-Gimeno P, Prats-Muñoz G (eds.), Vetera corpora morbo afflicta, Actas del XI Congreso Nacionial de Paleopatología: 737–748.
  • Núñez M, Väre T, Junno JA, Niinimäki J, Niinimäki S & Niskanen M. 2013. DISH in two members of Finland’s 17th century upper class, Malgosa A, Isidro A, Ibáñez-Gimeno P, Prats-Muñoz G (eds.), Vetera corpora morbo afflicta, Actas del XI Congreso Nacionial de Paleopatología: 477–488.
  • Väre, T. 2012. Kaakamon Harijängän Ruumismäki – Suomen sodan aikainen joukkohauta? Tornionlaakson vuosikirja 2012: 155–174.
  • Väre T, Junno JA, Niskanen M & Niinimäki S. 2012. Osteoarthritis of knee in relation to body weight in the Västerbjers, La Torrecilla, Nunnan block and Helsinki skeletal collections. Niinimäki S, Salmi AK, Kuusela JM & Okkonen J (eds.), Stones, Bones and Thoughts – Festschrift in Honour of Milton Núñez. Milton Núñezin juhlakirjan toimikunta: 158–165.
  • Kallio-Seppä T, Heikkilä T, Heinonen J, Junno JA, Kamula K, Korpi HK, Lipponen S, Miettinen E, Niinimäki S, Sala S, Tanska T, Tranberg A, Vilkama R. 2011. Iin vanhan Haminan hautausmaan naisvainaja CH36. Suomen Museo 2010: 50–83.
  • Niinimäki S, Heikkilä T, Niinimäki J, Niskanen M, Núñez M & Junno JA. 2011. Rungiuksen muumion osteoantropologinen tutkimus. Ikäheimo J, Nurmi R & Satokangas R (eds.), Harmaata näkyvissä – Kirsti Paavolan juhlakirja, Oulu: 265–274.
  • Heikkilä, T. 2011. Luukuoppa-aineiston alustava paleopatologinen tarkastelu. Kallio-Seppä T, Ikäheimo J & Paavola K (eds.), Iin vanhan Haminan kirkko ja hautausmaa – Arkeologisia tutkimuksia. Oulu, Iin kunta/Euroopan unioni: 97–107.
  • Heikkilä, T. 2011. Murtumien hoito keskiajalla. Kallio-Seppä T, Ikäheimo J & Paavola K (eds.), Iin vanhan Haminan kirkko ja hautausmaa – Arkeologisia tutkimuksia. Oulu, Iin kunta/Euroopan unioni: 106.
  • Junno JA, Niinimäki S, Vilkama R & Heikkilä T. 2011. Luujäännösten analysointi. Kallio-Seppä T, Ikäheimo J & Paavola K (eds.), Iin vanhan Haminan kirkko ja hautausmaa – Arkeologisia tutkimuksia. Oulu, Iin kunta/Euroopan unioni: 138–141.
  • Väre T, Niinimäki S, Junno JA, Niinimäki J, Niskanen M & Núñez M. 2011. Computed Tomography in Aid of Osteoarcheology – a Case Study of Mummified Remains of Vicar Nikolaus Rungius. Fennoscandia Archaeologica XXVIII: 85–88.
  • Other academic publications
  • Väre, T. 2023. Pääkirjoitus. Muutosten tuulissa. Muinaistutkija 2023/2: 1-2. https://doi.org/10.61258/mt.136327
  • Väre T & Lipkin S. 2023. Haukiputaan kirkkohautamuseo – Kappalaisen haaveesta todeksi. Muinaistutkija 2023/2: 31-37.
  • Väre T & Lipkin S. (eds.) 2023. Teemanumero: ARKEOLOGIA JA YHTEISKUNTA. Muinaistutkija 2023/2.
  • Unusual Death and Memorialization: Burial, Space, and Memory in the Post-Medieval North. Kallio-Seppä T, Lipkin S, Väre T, Moilanen U, Tranberg A. 2022, Berghahn Books, New York.
  • Lipkin S, Kallio-Seppä T, Tranberg A & Väre T (eds.), Toinen jalka haudassa. Juhlakirja Juhani Kostetille. Waasa Graphics, University of Oulu. 2019.
  • Väre T. (ed.) 2018. Tyrnävän vanhan kirkon paikan ja kirkkomaan hautojen kartoittaminen. Kenttätyöt Tyrnävän vanhalla hautausmaalla 2017, tutkimusraportti. University of Oulu, Archaeology. https://churchspacememoryproject.files.wordpress.com/2018/12/Geofyysiset_tutkimukset_Tyrn%C3%A4v%C3%A4_2017-1.pdf
  • Kallio-Seppä T, Väre T, Niinimäki S, Lipkin S & Ruhl E. 2017. Historiallista arkeologiaa konferenssimatkalla Fort Worthissa, Texasissa. Muinaistutkija 1/2017: 46–54.
  • Väre T, Tranberg A, Niinimäki S, Heinonen J, Vilkama R, Kallio-Seppä T, Niskanen M, Ylimaunu T, Núñez M & Junno JA. 2014. Raportti tarkastuskäynnistä Kempeleen vanhan kirkon lattianalaisissa tiloissa 2.5.2013. Report, Archaeology, University of Oulu.
  • Väre T, Núñez M, Junno JA, Tranberg A, Heino M, Niinimäki S, Puolakka H, Vattulainen J, Lipkin S, Vilkama R, Ylimaunu T & Kallio-Seppä T. 2013. Keminmaan Pyhän Mikaelin kirkon kirkkohautausten alustava kuntotarkastus 8.10.2013: Neljän lapsivainajan tietokonetomografisen tutkimuksen valmistelu. Report, Archaeology, University of Oulu.
  • Publications directed at the general public
  • Väre T. 2019. Muumiot puhuvat. Uusia menetelmiä ja vanhoja legendoja. Nordbooks, Kemi.
  • Väre T. 2018. Vanhojen kirkkojen hämäristä. Hiisi 1/2018: 3–11.
  • Kallio-Seppä T, Lipkin S, Tranberg A & Väre T. 2017. Pohjoisen hautaustapoja tutkimassa. Arkeologia nyt 2017: 32–33.
  • Väre T. 2013. Oliko Rungius pullea? Kaleva 5.2013, Sunnuntai-liite.

Scientific presentations

May 7, 2023, Post-Medieval Archaeology Congress 2023, Collegium Historicum, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań, Poland. Väre T. Problematic breastfeeding practices in three post-medieval Finnish towns according to δ15N and δ13C analyses of archaeological dentin and Lipkin S, Kallio-Seppä T, Väre T, Åkerblom R. The Tolls: The elderly couples at Kourla chapel in Vihti, Finland.  

Jan 5, 2023, 56th Annual Conference on Historical And Underwater Archaeology, Lisbon, Portugal. Väre T, Tranberg A, Kallio-Seppä T, Åkerblom R, Lipkin S, Junno J-A, Church Burials at
Risk? Research Ethics and Preservation of Cultural Heritage and Lipkin S, Kallio-Seppä T, Åkerblom R, Väre T, Tranberg A, Junno J-A, Finnish Private Chapels: Research Ethics And Preservation Of Cultural Heritage

Nov 9, 2022, 14th Annual conference of the Society for the Study of Childhood in the Past, Alcalá de Henares (Madrid), Spain. Väre T, Lipkin S. Value of infants and problematic breastfeeding practices in two Postmedieval Finnish towns according to δ15N and δ13C analyses of archaeological dentin.

Aug 17, 2022, 18th International Symposium on Dental Morphology and 3rd Congress of International Association of Paleodontology. Frankfurt am Main, Senckenberg Research Institute and Natural History Museum, Väre T. Problematic breastfeeding practices in two post-medieval Finnish towns according to δ15N and δ13C analyses of archaeological dentin.

9th Dec 2021, Kaamos Symposium, Oulu, University of Oulu, Biology, Väre T, Finnilä M, Harris A. Breastfeeding in 19th-century low-income families in Rauma according to δ15n and δ13c analyses of horizontally cut dentin segments of archaeological first permanent molars.

11th Sep 2021, EAA 2021, Kiel, Germany. Väre T, Lipkin S, Kallio-Seppä T, Junno J-A, Tranberg A. Mummification, preservation, and decay in Finnish crypt burials. European Crypt Burials II – A Heritage (Still) at Risk between Science and Public Display. ​

10th Sep 2021, EAA 2021, Kiel, Germany. Väre T. Detached mothers? The Material Culture of Attachment: Social Bonds, Childhood and Emotionally Important Objects. 

13th April 2021, Unattached mothers? Fragile mind, wellbeing and madness during the early modern and modern periods. Academy of Finland funded online lecture series (March–May 2021).  Organized by Sanna Lipkin & Tiina Väre.

14th Sep. 2019, Aineen taidemuseo, Tornio. Toinen jalka haudassa –  Juhlaseminaari Juhani Kostetille. Väre T. Kirkkoherra Rungiuksen viimeisimmät kuulumiset.

4th – 7th Sep. 2019, EAA 2019, Bern, Switzerland. Väre T, Lipkin S, Kallio-Seppä T, Tranberg A, Ruhl E. Burials under church floors in Finland – Folklore and practice.

4th – 7th Sep. 2019, EAA 2019, Bern, Switzerland. Kallio-Seppä T, Lipkin S, Tranberg A, Väre T. Under-church-floor-burials in Finland: Ethical considerations of research, community, and publishing.

9th – 12th Jan. 2019,  SHA 2019 Conference on Historical and Underwater Archaeology. St. Charles, Missouri, USA. Väre T, Maijanen H, Arppe L, Lipkin S, Kuokkanen T. Mass graves of Finnish war in Northern Finland – analyses of one casualty.

9th – 12th Jan. 2019,  SHA 2019 Conference on Historical and Underwater Archaeology. St. Charles, Missouri, USA. Kallio-Seppä T & Väre T. Memory and fear of pestilent in Northern Finland.

6th – 7th Dec. 2018, Arctic Archaeology and “Interdisciplinarity” workshop. Arctic Research Center – Arcum, Umeå University.

22nd – 23rd Nov. 2018, Arkeologipäivät 2018, Lammi. Väre T, Maijanen H, Arppe L, Lipkin S, Kuokkanen T. Suomen sodan joukkohaudoista Pohjois-Suomessa …ja hieman jatkoa erään sotilaan tarinaan.

22nd – 23rd Nov. 2018, Arkeologipäivät 2018, Lammi. Väre T, Maijanen H, Arppe L, Lipkin S, Kuokkanen T. Suomen sodan joukkohaudoista Pohjois-Suomessa – ja hieman jatkoa erään sotilaan tarinaan.

20th – 22 Sep. 2018, SSCIP 11th Annual International Conference, Natural History Museum, Vienna, Austria. Väre T, Lipkin S. Breastfeeding and weaning in 16th–19th-century Finland.

5th – 8th Sep. 2018, 24th Annual Meeting of the European Association of Archaeologists, Barcelona, Spain. Lipkin S, Ruhl E, Väre T. Clothing the Elite: Exploring priestly and other elite burials in 14th–18th-century Finland.

5th – 8th Sep. 2018, 24th Annual Meeting of the European Association of Archaeologists, Barcelona, Spain. Kallio-Seppä T, Väre T, Lipkin S, Tranberg A, Ylimaunu T. Post-Mortem Biographies of the Deceased under the Floors of Finnish Churches.

21st – 25th May 2018, Extraordinary World Congress on Mummy Studies, Santa Cruz, Tenerife, Spain. Väre T, Núñez M, Niinimäki J. Observations concerning the state of health of a mummified 17th-century Northern Finnish Vicar

21st – 25th May 2018, Extraordinary World Congress on Mummy Studies, Santa Cruz, Tenerife, Spain. López-Costas O, Núñez M, Väre T, Arosén N, Eriksson G. Diet and disease – the case of a mummified 17th-century Vicar from North Finland.

21st – 25th May 2018, Extraordinary World Congress on Mummy Studies, Santa Cruz, Tenerife, Spain. Núñez M, Väre T, López-Costas O. Conditions contributing to the natural mummification of individuals buried in North Finnish churches.

11th Apr. 2018. Näytillä. Esille asetettu ihminen –workshop, Helsinki, Finland. Väre T. Kirkkoherrasta matkailunähtävyydeksi

3rd – 7th Jan. 2018, Landscapes, Entrepôts, and Global Currents. SHA 2018 New Orleans, Louisiana, USA. Väre T, Moisio K, Hakonen A, Lipkin S, Modarress-Sadeghi M, Niinimäki S, Veijo R, Lamminsivu H & Kallio-Seppä T. Geophysical survey of the old church yard (c. 1640-1890s) in Tyrnävä, Northern Ostrobothnia, Finland

1st Dec. 2017, Suomen keskiajan arkeologian seuran syysseminaari 2017 Hämeenlinna, Finland. Väre T. Kemin 1600-luvun alun kirkkoherran, Nikolaus Rungiuksen tarina

23rd – 24th Nov. 2017, Arkeologipäivät 2017, Oulu, Finland. Väre T. Varhaismodernin Kemin seurakunnan kirkkoherran tarina

31st Mar. – 2nd Apr. 2017, Post-Medieval Archaeology Congress 2017. Hull, UK. Väre T, Nurminen N, Niinimäki J, Junno JA & Niskanen M. Harris lines in the late medieval to early modern skeletal material from the Oulu Cathedral and Iin Hamina churchyard sites

23rd – 24th Mar. 2017, Archaeology of religion, workshop. Tvärminne, Finland. Väre T. Keminmaan vanhan kirkon muumion merkityksestä

4th – 8th Jan. 2017, Advancing Frontiers: Where the Next 50 Years of SHA Begins. SHA 2017. Fort Worth, Texas, USA. Väre T, Junno JA, Niskanen M, Núñez M, Niinimäki S & Niinimäki J. Story of an unusually preserved early modern Vicar in Finnish Lapland

1st – 3rd Apr. 2016, Post-Medieval Archaeology Congress: 50 years of SPMA. Sheffield, UK. Väre T, Analyses of an Early 17th- Century Vicar from Finnish Lapland

2nd – 5th Sep. 2015, The 21st Annual Meeting of European Association of Archaeologist. Glasgow, UK. Väre T, Núñez M, Arosén N, Eriksson GM, Niskanen M, Lipkin S, Niinimäki S, Heino M, Tranberg A, Vilkama R, Tuovinen S, Ylimaunu T, Kallio-Seppä T & Junno JA. Stable isotope analyses confirming the fat/protein rich diet of a 17th century Northern Finnish vicar, Nikolaus Rungius

31st Mar. – 3rd Apr. 2015, Computer applications and quantitative methods in archaeology 2015, Siena, Italy. Väre T, Niinimäki J, Núñez M, Niskanen M, Lipkin S, Niinimäki S, Heino M, Tranberg A, Vilkama R, Tuovinen S, Ylimaunu T, Kallio-Seppä T & Junno JA. Virtual excavation of burials utilizing computed tomography imaging

22nd – 24th Oct. 2014, Images of Afterlife -konferenssi, Turku, Finland. Väre T, Núñez M, Heino M, Junno JA, Kallio-Seppä T, Lipkin S, Niinimäki S, Niskanen M, Tranberg A, Tuovinen S, Vilkama R & Ylimaunu T. Fame after death – The unusual story of a Finnish mummy and difficulties involving its study

10th – 14th Sep. 2014, The 20st Annual Meeting of European Association of Archaeologist. Istanbul, Turkey. Väre T, Heino M, Lipkin S, Niinimäki J, Niinimäki S, Niskanen M, Núñez M, Tranberg A, Tuovinen S, Vilkama R, Ylimaunu T, Kallio-Seppä T & Junno JA. Computed tomography of mummified human remains in old finnish churches – A Case Study: Mummified Remains of 17th Century Vicar

25th – 28th Apr. 2012, XII Nordic Theoretical Archaeology Group, Oulu, Finland. Väre T, Niinimäki S, Junno JA, Niinimäki J, Vilkama R, Niskanen M & Nuñéz M. Study of the Mummified Remains of Vicar Nikolaus Rungius

15th – 17th Sep. 2011, XI Congreso Nacional de Paleopatología. Andorra la Vella, Andorra. Heikkilä T, Peuraniemi N & Niinimäki S. Are the cribra orbitalia incidences in 15th to 16th century Ii Hamina skeletal material a reflection of malaria? 

Societal impact

May 19, 2023, Virtual lecture on the history of breastfeeding in Finland. Steiner high school, Oulu.

Jan 28, 2023 Rungiuksen elämästä ja kuoleman jälkeisestä elämästä -lecture. Kemi Art Museum, Kemi.

Sep 18, 2022 Opening of a miniexhibition at the church of Haukipudas

Oct 30, 2019 Public lecture at Tietomaa, Oulu.

Sep 12, 2019. Book publishing event, Muumiot puhuvat, Kemi library, Kemi.

Sep 12– Dec 1, 2019 Anna – Kirkkoon haudattu exhibition, Tornionlaakson maakunta museo, Tornio. Collaboration with the museum: T. Kallio-Seppä, S. Lipkin, A. Tranberg, T. Väre.

Sep 12–Dec 1, 2019 Rungius – Kirkkoon haudattu exhibition, Kemin historiallinen museo, Kemi. Collaboration with the museum: T. Kallio-Seppä, S. Lipkin, A. Tranberg, T. Väre.

April 10, 2019. Kirkkoherra Nicolaus Rungiuksen (n. 1560-1629) ruumiista. Uutta tietoa Pohjois-Suomen arkeologisesta tutkimuksesta course, Oulu-opisto. City of Oulu.

Jan 20, 2019. Koskelan sotilaan stabiili-isotooppianalyysit ja sotatalven aselepovaiheesta Peräpohjolassa. Nuorena Suomen sodassa – Sotilaan tutkijat kertovat.  Museum and Science Centre Luuppi, Northern Ostrobothnia Museum

2016–2018, Church, Space and memory project website and science blog 

28th July 2018, Seminar, Hailuoto theater festival, presentation on the multidisciplinary studies of the mummified remains of Vicar Rungius

1st Mar. 2018, workshop for junior high and high school students at Oulun Normaalikoulu, University of Oulu, Kallio-Seppä, T., Väre, T., Niinimäki, S. & Tanska, T. Keminmaan muumioitunut kirkkoherra Rungius ja arkeologinen tutkimus

10th Nov. 2017, Career paths event, Finnish Co-educational Lycée of Oulu, presentation

30th Apr. 2017, consultation, Lännen media (joint national newsroom of Finland’s leading regional media)

29th Nov. 2016, Life and death workshop, Junior high school of Muhos. Kallio-Seppä, T., Lipkin, S. & Väre, T. Kuoleman kohtaaminen 1600–1800-luvulla information point

30th Oct. 2016, consultation, Lännen media (joint national newsroom of Finland’s leading regional media)

6th Nov. 2014, Public presentation, Haukipudas library, City of Oulu, Väre, T., Kallio-Seppä, T. & Lipkin, S. Kirkkomuumiotutkimuksia Haukiputaalla ja Keminmaassa

23rd Aug. 2014, Kierikki Academy 3. Kierikki Stone Age Centre, Yli-Ii.  Oulu Adult Education Centre, Museum and Science Centre Luuppi, City of Oulu. Väre, T. Pohjois-Suomen muumiot Luupin alla

Theses

Väre T. 2017. Osteobiography of Vicar Rungius. Analyses of the bones and tissues of the mummy of an early 17th-century Northern Finnish clergyman using radiology and stable isotopes. Doctoral thesis. Acta Universitatis Ouluensis B Humaniora 150, University of Oulu.

Väre T. 2015. Selviytyjän syndrooman yhteys henkilöstön demografisiin ominaisuuksiin. Keinoja onnistuneempiin henkilöstösaneerauksiin.Master’s thesis. Oulu Business School.

Väre T. 2010. Alaraajan virheasentojen ja osteoartroosin välinen yhteys : Västerbjersin, La Torrecillan, Nunnan blockin, Helsingin ja Iin Haminan luukuopan aineistojen osteometrinen ja paleopatologinen tutkimus. Master’s thesis. Archaeology, Faculty of Humanities, University of Oulu.

Manuscripts

Väre T. Early Modern Breastfeeding Problem in Sweden. Failures to Attach? Archaeologies of Attachment (eds. S. Lipkin, T. Bell, T. Väre), Springer Nature. (Under review)

Väre T. Breastfeeding for Population Growth: Concerns over Childcare Practices in Early Modern Finland. The Oxford Handbook of Postmedieval Archaeology in the Nordic Countries. (Under review)

Junno J-A, Väre T, Tikkanen J, et al. Man-eating wolf from 1880’s? – Keratin δ13C and δ15N analyses.

Väre T, Arppe L, Lipkin S et al. The noble diets in Kourla mansion according to bone collagen δ13C and ẟ15N analyses – A comparative study of three Southern Finnish populations.

Väre T, Arppe L, Vuollo V. Breastfeeding among “survivors” and “non-survivors” in low-income families of turn-of-the-19th-century Rauma, Finland according to δ15N and δ13C analyses of archaeological dentin.

Kuvaja T, Väre T, Rissanen S, Rintamäki H, Lehenkari P, Junno J-A. Adaptability and resilience of human breast tissue to different ambient temperatures.

Väre T, Arppe L. The impact of the war explored through analyses of δ15n and δ13c in the Koskela soldier’s hair keratin and bone collagen. Young Soldier of the Finnish War (1808–1809). Monographs of the Archaeological Society of Finland. (Editors S Lipkin, H Maijanen, T Väre, K Vajanto)

Väre T, Lipkin S. The Final Road to the Kingdom of Death. Young Soldier of the Finnish War (1808–1809). Monographs of the Archaeological Society of Finland. (Editors S Lipkin, H Maijanen, T Väre, K Vajanto)

Väre T. Suomen rannikkoseudun rintaruokintatavoista keskiajalta uudelle ajalle. (Popular science book)

Hakonen A, Väre T, Moisio K. Geophysical survey of the old church yard (c. 1640–1890s) in Tyrnävä, Northern Ostrobothnia, Finland. 

Núñez M, Väre T, López Costas O, Arosén N, Eriksson G, Junno JA, Niskanen M, Niinimäki J & Niinimäki S. Reconstructing the diet of Vicar Nikolaus Rungius (†1629) and the Finnish Perämeri coast 1550–1850 from stable isotope analyses.

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