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General Category => Science, Technology and Knowledge => Archaeology => Topic started by: PeteS in CA on October 22, 2021, 06:56:30 pm
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In tree rings and radioactive carbon, signs of the Vikings in North America
https://www.nbcnews.com/science/science-news/tree-rings-radioactive-carbon-signs-vikings-north-america-rcna3383 (https://www.nbcnews.com/science/science-news/tree-rings-radioactive-carbon-signs-vikings-north-america-rcna3383)
Scientists have known for many years that Vikings — a name given to the Norse by the English they raided — built a village at L’Anse aux Meadows in Newfoundland around the turn of the millennium. But a study published in Nature is the first to pinpoint the date of the Norse occupation.
The explorers — up to 100 people, both women and men — felled trees to build the village and to repair their ships, and the new study fixes a date they were there by showing they cut down at least three trees in the year 1021 — at least 470 years before Christopher Columbus reached the Bahamas in 1492.
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The first Norse settlers in Greenland were from Iceland and Scandinavia, and the arrival of the explorers in Newfoundland marks the first time that humanity circled the entire globe.
But their stay didn’t last long. The research suggests the Norse lived at L’Anse aux Meadows for three to 13 years before they abandoned the village and returned to Greenland.
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I don't know how true they were,but I have read reports that Leif Erickson or his son led an expedition to the northeastern shore of what is called America today,but were ran off by the local Indians.
I have also read more than one report of the graves of white people have been discovered in what is now called Ohio,and they had Norse stone engravings on the stones covering the bodies.
Stands to reason that ancient sailors have landed more than once on probably every land mass on the planet,due to wind and tide,and then just having to "go with the flow".
They had no idea where they were,so they didn't think it was a big deal and didn't usually report it because they had no idea how to even return there.