Thanks Red Badger.
Posted on 10/20/2021 12:59:46 PM PDT by Theoria
By studying tree rings and using a dash of astrophysics, researchers have pinned down a precise year that settlers from Europe were on land that would come to be known as Newfoundland.
Six decades ago, a husband-and-wife team of archaeologists discovered the remains of a settlement on the windswept northern tip of Newfoundland. The site’s eight timber-framed structures resemble Viking buildings in Greenland, and archaeological artifacts found there — including a bronze cloak pin — are decidedly Norse in style.
Scientists now believe that this site, known as L’Anse aux Meadows, was inhabited by Vikings who came from Greenland. To this day, it remains the only conclusively identified Viking site in the Americas outside of Greenland.
But many questions remain about L’Anse aux Meadows: Who exactly settled it? Why? And, perhaps most importantly, when was the site occupied? Pinning down the settlement’s age has been a challenge — radiocarbon measurements of artifacts from L’Anse aux Meadows span the entire Viking Age, from the late eighth through the 11th centuries.
But in results published Wednesday in Nature, scientists presented what they think are new answers to this mystery. By analyzing the imprint of a rare solar storm in tree rings from wood found at the Canadian site, scientists have decisively pinned down when Norse explorers were in Newfoundland: the year A.D. 1021, or exactly 1,000 years ago.
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Thanks Red Badger.
I think you have to remember how Cortez beat the Aztecs: He aligned his troops with a tribe that the Aztecs used for human sacrifice. Additionally, there had been an Aztec prediction that white gods would arrive. Add those two things up and it is different than what the Vikings faced and how they reacted.
Yes that was an element but he never woulda gotten away with it without the firearms.
“I would have never guessed that there were 1,000+ yr old trees up there.”
Along with 1,000+ yr old people!
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