Ari Siiriäinen

Ari Pekka Siiriäinen (16 November 1939 – 9 December 2004) was a Finnish archaeologist. He worked as the Professor of Archaeology in University of Helsinki from 1983 to 2004.

He grew up in Helsinki and graduated from Normal Lyceum of Helsinki in 1958.

He was selected as the professor of archaeology in the University of Helsinki in 1983, after his predecessor Carl Fredrik Meinander had retired. Before his passing, he stated that "I'll die as a happy man".

Publications

Books

Lohjalaisten historia (with Heikki Ylikangas) (1973) Suur-Tuusulan historia: Tuusula - Kerava - Järvenpää. 1. Esihistoriallisesta ajasta seurakunnan perustamiseen 1643 (with Jaakko Sarkamo and Åke Winqvist) (1983) Mankkaan seudun historiikki (1993) Afrikan kulttuurien juuret (with Arvi Hurskainen) (1995)

Selected academic works The Wadi Halfa region (Northern Sudan) in the Stone Age, based on the researches of the Scandinavian joint expedition to Nubia 1962-1963 (1966) Studies Relating to Shore Displacements and Stone Age Chronology in Finland (1974) Iron Age Cultivation in SW Finland (with Kimmo Tolonen and Anna-Liisa Hirviluoto) (1976) Excavations in Laikipia: An Archeological Study of the Recent Prehistory in the Eastern Highlands of Kenya (1984) Archaeological evidence for dating the sediments in a playa in Farafra, Western Desert of Egypt (1999) Reports of the Finnish-Bolivian Archaeological Project in the Bolivian Amazon II - Noticias del proyecto arqueológico finlandés-boliviano en la Amazonia boliviana II (as editor) (2002)