Tools
Tools
Ledger, PM, Girdland-Flink, L and Forbes, V (2019) New horizons at L’Anse aux Meadows. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. ISSN 0027-8424
|
Text
New horizons at L’Anse aux Meadows.pdf - Published Version Available under License Creative Commons Attribution. Download (1MB) | Preview |
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.
| Item Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Uncontrolled Keywords: | MD Multidisciplinary |
| Subjects: | G Geography. Anthropology. Recreation > G Geography (General) G Geography. Anthropology. Recreation > GB Physical geography G Geography. Anthropology. Recreation > GE Environmental Sciences |
| Divisions: | Natural Sciences & Psychology (closed 31 Aug 19) |
| Publisher: | Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences |
| Date Deposited: | 18 Jul 2019 11:06 |
| Last Modified: | 04 Sep 2021 09:08 |
| DOI or ID number: | 10.1073/pnas.1907986116 |
| URI: | https://researchonline.ljmu.ac.uk/id/eprint/11055 |
 |
View Item |