New horizons at L'Anse aux Meadows

Paul M. Ledger; Linus Girdland-Flink; Véronique Forbes

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New horizons at L'Anse aux Meadows

Paul M. Ledger^*, Linus Girdland-Flink, Véronique Forbes

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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 LAMto sample the peat bog 30meast 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.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	15341-15343
Number of pages	3
Journal	Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
Volume	116
Issue number	31
Early online date	15 Jul 2019
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1907986116
Publication status	Published - 30 Jul 2019

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Bayesian modeling
Indigenous
Insects
Norse
Pollen

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