Long before Christopher Columbus crossed the Atlantic, eight timber-framed buildings covered in sod stood on a terrace above a peat bog and stream at the northern tip of the Canadian island of Newfoundland, evidence that the Vikings had reached the New World first.
However, when precisely did the Vikings journeyed to establish the L’Anse aux Meadows settlement had remained unclear until now.
Scientists on Wednesday said a new type of dating technique using a long-ago solar storm as a reference point revealed that the settlement was occupied in 1021, exactly one millennium ago and 471 years before the first voyage of
A new open access study published in Nature yesterday showcases a relatively new method in archaeology. In an attempt to give precise dates to the famous N | Earth And The Environment