Saturday, July 30, 2016

Researchers are looking for old renskit – Sveriges Radio

The aim is to deepen the knowledge of reindeer husbandry conditions past and present. To view a herd of reindeer found themselves in a certain place traced the remains of droppings through pollen and sporprover. In projeket participate Ajjte mountain and Sami museum in Jokkmokk.

– When the reindeer trampling and fertilize the soil with their droppings then there will be an enrichment of nutrients and phosphates in the soil. It can be seen, says Kjell-Åke Aronsson, who researches the old reindeer pellet with Aronsson, together with research colleagues from Venezuela and France.

He explains the minimal residues and small fragments left in the pill no.

– And it can be studied. Then you can say that right at this place for so and so long ago, so it was reindeer here, he says.

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