Nobody actually knows what people were in deep north 10000 years ago. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Komsa_culture https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Komsa_culture B

Nobody actually knows what people were in deep north 10000 years ago. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Komsa_culture https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Komsa_culture But they were definitely not Saami. If they were ancestors they could be called Proto-Finnic, from which Saami arose 3000-5000 years ago. The 10000 year Saami story was mostly pushed by Norwegians, because stating that people of Finnmark were ancestors of Finns, it may cause land claims aka "Greater Finland". They even invented new ethnicity for Finns who moved to Norway in 1800's.