Norse and Aztecs · TURNING POINT ·
Thule and Norse contact, Ruin Island (c. 1300)
On the Norse and Aztecs map as “Ruin Island — Thule and Norse”
c. 1300 — Thule Inuit sites on Ruin Island and nearby coasts in Greenland’s far northwest contain Norse objects, including iron, cloth and fragments of chain mail. They show contact, trade or scavenging between Inuit and Norse in the High Arctic as the Inuit moved south.
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- Turning point
- Chapter
- Why the Norse abandoned Greenland (chapter 5 of Norse and Aztecs)
- Atlas
- Climate and Innovation: The Norse and the Aztecs, c. 790–1521
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