Viking Colony in Newfoundland Dated

[uniface]

www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcna3383

Wood cut using metal tools = Europeans cut it. Somebody's using his head !

 

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It’s not exactly breaking news but it’s fun to have a new perspective of who got to America first… besides the natives… I’m not all that old but through my time in school it was always Columbus, I like imagining Vikings more, makes you wonder what impact they had on native cultures, was there a spread of disease? Did they cause the natives to re-evaluate their world view? Religions, construction techniques… maybe some trade goods found in Canada are much older than the finder realizes.

 

[Charl]

Apparently they established other base camps as well. Imagine, unless establishing an actual settlement, how difficult it would be to find an overnight camp. Talk about needles in a haystack…..

New Dating Method Shows Vikings Occupied Newfoundland in 1021 C.E.

Tree ring evidence of an ancient solar storm enables scientists to pinpoint the exact year of Norse settlement

www.smithsonianmag.com

“According to the sagas, the Norse found plenty of fish and game, timber, and pastureland during their explorations of Vinland. They described establishing several base camps—L’Anse aux Meadows appears to have been one—that enabled further explorations of these strange shorelines. Butternuts and butternut tree fragments found at the site suggest they traveled south of Newfoundland, where those species have never grown, but just how far they went remains anyone's guess. Thorfinn and Gudrid’s son Snorri even became the first known European baby born in the Americas”.

 

[Tesorodeoro]

It’s not exactly breaking news but it’s fun to have a new perspective of who got to America first… besides the natives… I’m not all that old but through my time in school it was always Columbus, I like imagining Vikings more, makes you wonder what impact they had on native cultures, was there a spread of disease? Did they cause the natives to re-evaluate their world view? Religions, construction techniques… maybe some trade goods found in Canada are much older than the finder realizes.

I have read that the local tribes in my area (N. Ca.) experienced plagues and traditionally retreated from the river to the mountains. Most would come back after winter hit, but some would play it safe and winter in the mountains to stay safe. Who knows where the illnesses came from.

 

[CreakyDigger]

I have read that the local tribes in my area (N. Ca.) experienced plagues and traditionally retreated from the river to the mountains. Most would come back after winter hit, but some would play it safe and winter in the mountains to stay safe. Who knows where the illnesses came from.

Nature, maybe?

 

[dirstscratcher]

It has always intrigued me that the iroquoian long houses came into existence about the same time that the Vikings were here.

 

[eyemustdigtreasure]

www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcna3383

Wood cut using metal tools = Europeans cut it. Somebody's using his head !

Way cool!
I'm a Viking nut, so I really appreciated that article!