L'Anse aux Meadows

L’Anse aux Meadows, a UNESCO World Heritage Site is located “at the tip of the Great Northern Peninsula of the island of Newfoundland” (UNESCO). This site is significant because it “is evidence of the earliest known European prescence on the American continent” (UNESCO). Figure 1: Map of the location of L'Anse aux Meadows (Wallace 2003:7) The first set of excavators were Dr. Helge Ingstad and his wife, Dr. Anne Stine Ingstad, who were in search for archeological evidence of Vikings in North America

Christopher Columbus was born in Genova, Italy, in 1451. At a young age, Columbus found himself interested on traveling, and how the Earth was constituted. He had made innumerable voyages. On August 3, 1492, Christopher Columbus set out on a journey from Puerto de Palos, in search of new lands. His crew was composed of three caravels (La Pinta, La Niña, and La Santa Maria), and a crew of 120 men total. On October 12, 1492, thirty three days after he departed on his new journey, Columbus landed

History Paper Who discovered America? By: Deanne Mastrocola Why is it that American culture today attributes its geographic discovery to a man named Christopher Columbus? Could it be that he was the first European to claim this land as part of an Imperialistic expansion or is it merely out of convenience for the history books? It is known that the American continent was populated by 1000 AD which is long before settlements by Viking fisherman and even longer before the arrival of Columbus

Leif Erikson day. Leif Erikson is the Norse viking who really discovered the North American continent, and he did so over 500 years before Columbus was even born. Located on the Northernmost of Newfoundland in Canada, there is a village called L’Anse aux Meadows. It is the only known site of a Norse village in North America outside of Greenland. When it was still a Norse village, there were three timber and sod longhouses, and also five smaller turf houses. Now, there are only replicas of those buildings

This is proven by their arrival at L'Anse Aux Meadows on the North American continent. According to the encyclopedia, their arrival at the settlement was around 1000 A.D. ("L'anse Aux Meadows"). In comparison, Christopher Columbus did not arrive in America until 1492 A.D. (Schwartz). Furthermore, by the time Christopher Columbus reached America, nearly five centuries

While the Viking Era was rather brief, these infamous Scandinavian brutes left a mark in history larger than they themselves were tall. The Vikings emerged from the present-day area in Northern Europe known as Scandinavia, which consists of the countries of Sweden, Denmark, and Norway. Named for their legendary raids, the name “Viking” is said to mean “a pirate raid” and originates from a dead language called “Old Norse”, which was the native tongue of the Vikings. Contrary to the widely Christian

Birgitta Wallace, a senior archaeologist emeritaat parks Canada, believes that all this industry went into the making of small boats, less than 26 feet long-ideal for scouting forays along the coast.(Wachtler 22) B. Wallace now suggests that L'anse aux Meadows served mainly as a base for viking explorers who combed the Atlantic shores for a few years in search of valuable resources. (Wachtler

people lived in impermanent settlements, and in more settled groups, women tended the crops while the men hunted, fished, gathered fuel, and cleared fields. 3) Indirect Discoverers of the New World a) Norse seafarers from Scandinavia landed at L’Anse aux Meadows (present Newfoundland) i) A lot of grapes which led them to name the place Vinland, but their flimsy settlements were soon abandoned and their discovery was forgotten b) Europe craved the Asian goods such as silk, drugs for aching flesh, perfumes

Scandinavians (Vikings) had first settled in southern Scandinavia, but then they started to seek and explore just as every other nation in history. They had started to divide into separate factions and were loosely structured, but they still had enough in common to work together and expand. They stretched from their southern Scandinavia to England, a bunch of really tiny islands, tips of Europe's mainland, Iceland, Greenland, and landed in Newfoundland (which they called Vinland). They had skirted

land in the west from an Icelandic trader, and went to find it.The precise identity of Vinland remains uncertain, with various locations on the North American coast identified. In 1963, archaeologists found ruins of a Viking-type settlement at L'Anse aux Meadows, in northern Newfoundland, which correspond to Leif's description of Vinland.