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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Some descendant of Boltar ad his Indian wife? Yes I read the Prince Valiant comic strip in my youth.
Valiant chases a Viking villain to the New World, fights him over the Great Falls we today call Niagara. Boltar took home an Indian wife while on that trip.
Well they made it as far as Oklahoma. Ever hear of The Heavener Runestone?
My sister did one of those DNA things. We came mostly from the British Isles…with distinct Nordic and Italian lines.
I told her our women were only raped by the best invaders.
There aren't. They use overlapping ring sets to build a timeline.
It got really cold.
Cold is bad, warm is good.
As I always say, when the SHTF, and it takes a lot of hard labor to keep warm, the entitlement army is heading south.
Thanks, that is a new one for me.
Does he have high cheekbones?
All those home tests are scams to get you to turn in a sample. Go to whichever video site you use these days and watch the videos of people that have done them more than once and the videos of identical twins. Then start to look into the who and why.
It has disadvantages but freezing cold tends to reduce.... problematical infestations.
Floki would’ve gone on to North Carolina if he had the resources to do it.
came pretty darned close
Poteau, Oklahoma
Isn’t that where Flokie took them?
I’ve heard of dendrochronology, but didn’t know the details. Thanks.
Agreed. I am a big fan of Christopher Columbus.
If a tree is discovered, and the tree falls on the guy and he tells nobody, did he really discover it?
Of course!
Well Columbus visited the Caribbean islands South and Central America in his 4 voyages. He never set foot on the actual US as far as we know.
So what?
The Basques were cod fishing the waters around Labrador for 50 years before Cabot “discovered” it.
https://www.amazon.com/Cod-Biography-Fish-Changed-World/dp/0140275010
They kept it to themselves as a trade secret.
;>)
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