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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 in Karelia, especially the isthmus.

Biography

On 19 July 1872, Ailio was born in Loppi, Grand Duchy of Finland, Russian Empire to a school teacher and future Social Democratic member of Finnish parliament.

In 1906, he excavated Räisälä Papinkangas. 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 salvage excavated Häyrynmäki in Viipuri Province.[1] From his 1909 excavations he first identified the Kiukainen culture[2] and Corded Ware as distinct archaeological cultures, referring to the latter as Alastaro pottery.[3] In 1915, he excavated Heinjoki Vetokallio.

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.[4]

In 1921, he expressed study facial features, skin color, and hair structure as less important than the skeleton and inner organs in anthropology.[5] 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".[6] In the article he also considered a Pärnu figurine as a Muttergott (Mother-God) based on similar findings with the Tripolye.[7] In 1923, Ailio rejected the notion Giant's Churches were former Stone Age man-made structures and instead labeled them as shore formations.[8]

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,, as secretary; the project received support from the state archeologist . 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.

In 1930, he signed a manifesto denouncing militarization and conscription.[9]

In 1932, excavated Muolaa Kuusaa Kannilanjoki.

On 4 March 1933, he died in Helsinki.

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  1. Gerasimov . Dmitri . Halinen . Petri . Lavento . Mika . Saksa . Alexander . Timofeev . Vladimir . 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 . 2001 . XVIII . 6, 9 . 0781-7126.
  2. Soisalo . Janne . Roiha . Johanna . Kiukainen Culture Site Locations—Reflections from the Coastal Lifestyle at the End of the Stone Age . . 19 September 2022 . 11 . 9 . 1606 . 10.3390/land11091606 . 2073-445X. 10138/349465 . free . free .
  3. Nordqvist . Kerkko . Häkälä . Piritta . DISTRIBUTION OF CORDED WARE IN THE AREAS NORTH OF THE GULF OF FINLAND - AN UPDATE . . 2014 . 18 . 1 . 3 . Tallinn . 1736-7484 .
  4. Book: Hodgeson, John H. . John H. Hodgson . Communism in Finland: A History and Interpretation . 1967 . . Princeton . 9781400875627 . 25 . Two. From Parliamentary Socialism to Revolutionary Socialism . De Gruyter.
  5. Book: Elmgren . Ainur . Finnishness, Whiteness and Coloniality . 2022 . . 978-952-369-072-1 . 327 . Imperial Complicity: Finns and Tatars in the Political Hierarchy of Races. j.ctv2vm3bb6.16.
  6. Salminen . Timo . Aarne Michaël Tallgren and the International Discussion on the Bronze Age of Russia . . 5 April 2017 . 27 . 1 . 7 . 10.5334/bha-553 . 1062-4740 . 24683018. free .
  7. Jonuks . Tönno . A MESOLITHIC HUMAN FIGURINE FROM RIVER PÄRNU, SOUTH-WEST ESTONIA: A CENTURY-OLD PUZZLE OF IDOLS, GODDESSES AND ANCESTRAL SYMBOLS . Estonian Journal of Archaeology . 2016 . 20 . 2 . 111–127 . 10.3176/arch.2016.2.01 . free .
  8. Sipilä . Joonas . Lahelma . Antti . War as a Paradigmatic Phenomenon: Endemic Violence and the Finnish Subneolithic . . 2006 . 2 . 1 . 193 . 10.1163/157407706778942259 . 48601913 . 162558713 . subscription . 1574-0773.
  9. News: JOINT PEACE COUNCIL. . . 22 October 1930 . . 4.

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