Norse and Aztecs · TURNING POINT ·
L’Anse aux Meadows (1021)
1021 — Norse travellers cut wood with metal tools at this site at the tip of Newfoundland in the year 1021, fixed by a cosmic-ray signal in the tree rings. Discovered in 1960, its eight buildings housed perhaps 70–90 people for a few years. It is the only confirmed Norse site in the Americas.
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- Vikings in Greenland and Vinland (chapter 4 of Norse and Aztecs)
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- Climate and Innovation: The Norse and the Aztecs, c. 790–1521
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