1,000 Years of New World Archaeology
- 1 July 1982
- journal article
- Published by Cambridge University Press (CUP) in American Antiquity
- Vol. 47 (3), 652-654
- https://doi.org/10.2307/280241
Abstract
Weather-stranded Norse explorer-refugees are reported in the medieval Icelandic Landnámabók to have dug into an archaeological site in eastern Greenland about A.D. 981. Enough details are given to suggest that they investigated a Dorset Culture site. This 1,000-year-old account must be the oldest known archaeological report for the New World.Keywords
This publication has 2 references indexed in Scilit:
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- A Critical Account of the Written and Archaeological Sources' Evidence Concerning the Norse Settlements in Greenland. Henrik M. JansenSpeculum, 1974