{"id":11715,"date":"2021-10-28T11:41:00","date_gmt":"2021-10-28T18:41:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/BigJimIndustries.com\/wordpress\/?p=11715"},"modified":"2021-11-07T11:44:20","modified_gmt":"2021-11-07T18:44:20","slug":"long-before-christopher","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2021\/10\/28\/long-before-christopher\/","title":{"rendered":"Long before Christopher…"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

from NBC News<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In tree rings and radioactive carbon, signs of the Vikings in North America<\/h1>\n\n\n\n

Wood at a settlement in Canada’s Newfoundland that was cut with metal tools helped researchers pinpoint when the Norse first reached the continent \u2014 well before Columbus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

By\u00a0Tom Metcalfe<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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A reconstructed Norse longhouse built beside the archaeological site at L’Anse aux Meadows in Canada’s Newfoundland. The new study pinpoints a year when the Norse were there as A.D. 1021. Russ Heinl aerial photography \/ Shutterstock<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Vikings from Greenland \u2014 the first Europeans to arrive in the Americas \u2014 lived in a village in Canada\u2019s Newfoundland exactly 1,000 years ago, according to research published Wednesday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Scientists have known for many years that Vikings \u2014 a name given to the Norse by the English they raided \u2014 built a village at L\u2019Anse aux Meadows in Newfoundland around the turn of the millennium. But a study\u00a0published<\/a>\u00a0in Nature is the first to pinpoint the date of the Norse occupation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The explorers \u2014 up to 100 people, both women and men \u2014 felled trees to build the village and to repair their ships, and the new study fixes a date they were there by showing they cut down at least three trees in the year 1021 \u2014 at least 470 years before Christopher Columbus reached the Bahamas in 1492.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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