Gwynne Dyer writes about the Viking settlement at L’Anse aux Meadows, which was recently determined to be the first European settlement in the New World in 1021 AD.
Dr. Paul Ledger and Dr. Veronique Forbes of Memorial University examine some of the cultural material they discovered at the Norse settlement site at L'Anse aux Meadows in 2018. It’s still unclear just how long the Norse stayed at L’Anse aux Meadows, though science has shown they were there in 1021.
I was always interested in the Norse because I grew up in Newfoundland and that was already seen as the likeliest location of the region they called Vinland. I read the sagas , which were rip-roaring tales of triumph and treachery but distinctly short on geographical and chronological detail. Those people, probably related to the extinct Beothuk of Newfoundland or the modern Innu of Labrador, were very distant descendants of the modern human beings who left Africa around 100,000 years ago, turned right, crossed all of Asia, and finally arrived in North America when the glaciers receded about 14,000 years ago.
The iron sculpture at the L'anse aux Meadows National Historic Site depicting the arrival of the Vikings a thousand years ago. - RF Stock Two centuries ago, our knowledge of the past barely reached back past classical Greece and Rome: say, 3,000 years. Now, scientists are working hard to puzzle out past climate states ranging from hundreds to billions of years ago because understanding the patterns of the past may help us through whatever happens next. Every scrap of information may be valuable.
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