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Viking settlement
FROM WIKIPEDIA:
Dating to around the year 1000, L'Anse aux Meadows is the only site widely accepted as evidence of pre-Columbian trans-oceanic contact.
It is notable for its possible connection with the attempted colony of Vinland established by Leif Erikson around the same period or, more broadly, with Norse exploration of the Americas. It was named a World Heritage site by UNESCO in 1978.
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This remote and desolate site on the northern tip of Newfoundland, which juts out well into the North Atlantic, has been thoroughly excavated, and the sod-covered structure is a re-creation of the buildings in which the Vikings lived. So that means Vikings were living in North America 500 years before Columbus took the easier route and in much bigger ships.
Although the Vikings got along for a while with the Native Beothuk Indians, the peace didn't last and eventually the settlers were run off.
A bronze sculpture at L'Anse Aux Meadows commemorates the first meeting of those early ancestors who left Africa and migrated east, and met up with our ancestors who migrated west.
For more information, check out this excellent Wikipedia page:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L%27Anse_aux_Meadows
Viking settlement
FROM WIKIPEDIA:
Dating to around the year 1000, L'Anse aux Meadows is the only site widely accepted as evidence of pre-Columbian trans-oceanic contact.
It is notable for its possible connection with the attempted colony of Vinland established by Leif Erikson around the same period or, more broadly, with Norse exploration of the Americas. It was named a World Heritage site by UNESCO in 1978.
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This remote and desolate site on the northern tip of Newfoundland, which juts out well into the North Atlantic, has been thoroughly excavated, and the sod-covered structure is a re-creation of the buildings in which the Vikings lived. So that means Vikings were living in North America 500 years before Columbus took the easier route and in much bigger ships.
Although the Vikings got along for a while with the Native Beothuk Indians, the peace didn't last and eventually the settlers were run off.
A bronze sculpture at L'Anse Aux Meadows commemorates the first meeting of those early ancestors who left Africa and migrated east, and met up with our ancestors who migrated west.
For more information, check out this excellent Wikipedia page:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L%27Anse_aux_Meadows