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1,000 Years of New World Archaeology

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 January 2017

Ralph M. Rowlett
Ralph M. Rowlett*
Affiliation:
Department of Anthropology, University of Missouri, Columbia MO 65211
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Abstract

Weather-stranded Norse explorer-refugees are reported in the medieval Icelandic Landnámabók to have dug into an archaeological site in eastern Greenland about A.D. 981. Enough details are given to suggest that they investigated a Dorset Culture site. This 1,000-year-old account must be the oldest known archaeological report for the New World.

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American Antiquity , Volume 47 , Issue 3 , July 1982 , pp. 652 - 654
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Copyright © The Society for American Archaeology 1982

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