Joonas Kinnunen
 MA


jtjkin@utu.fi



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Medieval archaeology; Economic history; Social network analysis (SNA); Historical network analysis; Hanseatic trade; Statistics; Data analytics; Digital humanism; 3D-scanning; Algorithms

I am a doctoral candidate at the department of archaeology, where I am doing a PhD thesis about the development of medieval over-sea trade in the Baltic sea region. My interests, however, are widely in economic history and its effects on material culture, ranging from prehistorial socities to around 18th century. My other area of interest are the digital methods (for example 3D-scanning and algorithms) and their applicability in archaeology. At the moment my main methods are social network analysis (SNA) and statistics.



In my PhD thesis, I am studying the medieval over-sea distribution networks and their development, as well as geographical differences based on the archaeological material. My research is so-called big data -research, that is yet rare in humanities, where –with help of large sample sizes and data mining– questions that can not be answered by traditional humanities methodology are under investigation.

On the other hand, in the economic history point of view, archaeology provides a dataset with a unique perspective, as the material culture can bring out connections and historical economic features that are not visible from written sources, eg. toll catalogues. Archaeological material is also often more temporally comprehensive that the literary sources, which enables us to complete the missing data of the written documents.


I teach medieval economic history and digital methods in archaeology.




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