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canopic jug writes:

The New York Times has written about study results published recently in Nature which show rather precisely when Vikings had been living in what is now Canada, specifically at L’Anse aux Meadows.

But in results published Wednesday in Nature, scientists presented what they think are new answers to this mystery. By analyzing the imprint of a rare solar storm in tree rings from wood found at the Canadian site, scientists have decisively pinned down when Norse explorers were in Newfoundland: the year A.D. 1021, or exactly 1,000 years ago.

The date was calculated from a combination of dendrochronology and astrophysics.

Journal Reference:
Margot Kuitems, Birgitta L. Wallace, Charles Lindsay, et al. Evidence for European presence in the Americas in ad 1021 [open], Nature (DOI: 10.1038/s41586-021-03972-8)

Previously:
(2020) Archaeologists in Norway Find Rare Viking Ship Burial Using Only Radar
(2020) Melting Ice Reveals an Ancient, Once-Thriving Trade Route
(2018) 8-Year-Old Girl Pulls Ancient Sword From Lake, is Our Ruler Now
(2016) Vikings, Crystal 'Sunstones,' and the Discovery of America
(2015) 1,200-year-old Viking Sword Discovered by Hiker
(2014) The Vikings' Navigational Mystery: Calcite

Original Submission

1. "canopic jug" - https://soylentnews.org/~canopic+jug/
2. "show rather precisely when Vikings had been living in what is now Canada" - https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/20/science/vikings-newfoundland-age.html
3. "L’Anse aux Meadows" - https://whc.unesco.org/en/list/4
4. "published Wednesday in Nature," - https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-021-03972-8
5. "10.1038/s41586-021-03972-8" - https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-021-03972-8
6. "Archaeologists in Norway Find Rare Viking Ship Burial Using Only Radar" - https://soylentnews.org/article.pl?sid=20/11/11/1435224
7. "Melting Ice Reveals an Ancient, Once-Thriving Trade Route" - https://soylentnews.org/article.pl?sid=20/05/27/2130225
8. "8-Year-Old Girl Pulls Ancient Sword From Lake, is Our Ruler Now" - https://soylentnews.org/article.pl?sid=18/10/05/019201
9. "Vikings, Crystal 'Sunstones,' and the Discovery of America" - https://soylentnews.org/article.pl?sid=16/02/02/0342248
10. "1,200-year-old Viking Sword Discovered by Hiker" - https://soylentnews.org/article.pl?sid=15/10/23/1135243
11. "The Vikings' Navigational Mystery: Calcite" - https://soylentnews.org/article.pl?sid=14/04/19/1828214
12. "Original Submission" - https://soylentnews.org/submit.pl?op=viewsub&subid=52052

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