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Evidence of Viking/Norse Metalworking in Arctic Canada
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Date Written:  05/12/2014
Year Published:  2014  
Resource Type:  Article

An object that was found by archaeologists a half-century ago has now been recognized as further evidence of a Viking or Mediaeval Norse presence in Arctic Canada during the centuries around 1000 A.D.

Abstract:  An object that was found by archaeologists a half-century ago has now been recognized as further evidence of a Viking or Mediaeval Norse presence in Arctic Canada during the centuries around 1000 A.D.

In an article published in the international journal Geoarchaeology, archaeologist Patricia Sutherland and her co-authors report that scanning electron microscopy was employed to determine if metal traces were present in a small stone container from an archaeological site on southern Baffin Isl...
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