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New horizons at L’Anse aux Meadows
- Source :
- Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
- Publisher :
- Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
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Abstract
- The UNESCO World Heritage site of L’Anse aux Meadows (LAM) in northern Newfoundland is the only undisputed site of pre-1492 presence of Europeans in the Americas. In August 2018, we undertook fieldwork at LAM to sample the peat bog 30 m east of the Norse ruins for a multiproxy paleoenvironmental assessment of Norse settlement. Instead, we encountered a new cultural horizon. Here we report our fieldwork at this iconic site and a Bayesian analysis of legacy radiocarbon data, which nuance previous conclusions and suggest Norse activity at LAM may have endured for a century. In light of these findings, we reflect on how the cultural horizon, containing nonnative ecofacts, may relate to indigenous or Norse activities.
- Subjects :
- 010506 paleontology
Peat
Social Sciences
Unesco world heritage
01 natural sciences
Indigenous
law.invention
law
G1
0601 history and archaeology
Radiocarbon dating
insects
indigenous
0105 earth and related environmental sciences
GB
Multidisciplinary
GE
060102 archaeology
Horizon (archaeology)
06 humanities and the arts
Archaeology
Bayesian modeling
Geography
Anthropology
pollen
Norse
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 00278424
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....fa336b0e2cc84f42615d26c614aa803e