L'Anse aux Meadows

L'Anse aux Meadows
Recreated Norse buildings at L'Anse aux Meadows
Coordinates51°35′47″N 55°32′00″W / 51.59639°N 55.53333°W / 51.59639; -55.53333
WebsiteL'Anse aux Meadows National Historic Site
Official nameL'Anse aux Meadows
National Historic Site
TypeCultural
Criteriavi
Designated1978 (2nd session)
Reference no.4
CountryCanada
RegionEurope and North America
Official nameL'Anse aux Meadows National Historical Site of Canada.
Designated28 November 1968
L'Anse aux Meadows is located in Newfoundland
L'Anse aux Meadows
Location of L'Anse aux Meadows in Newfoundland

L'Anse aux Meadows (lit. 'Meadows Cove') is an archaeological site, first excavated in the 1960s, of a Norse settlement dating to approximately 1,000 years ago. The site is located on the northernmost tip of the island of Newfoundland in the Canadian province of Newfoundland and Labrador near St. Anthony.

With carbon dating estimates between 990 and 1050 CE (mean date 1014)[1][2][3] and tree-ring dating of 1021,[4][5][2] L'Anse aux Meadows is the only undisputed site of pre-Columbian trans-oceanic contact of Europeans with the Americas outside of Greenland.[3] It is notable as evidence of the Norse presence in North America and for its possible connection with the accounts of Leif Erikson in the Saga of the Greenlanders and the Saga of Erik the Red,[6] which were written down in the 13th century.[3] Archaeological evidence suggests the settlement served as a base camp for Norse exploration of North America, including regions to the south.[7]

Spanning 8,000 hectares (31 sq mi) of land and sea, the site contains the remains of eight buildings constructed of sod over a wood frame, with over 800 Norse objects unearthed,[8] including bronze, bone, and stone artifacts, and evidence of iron production.[9] The site was designated a National Historic Site of Canada in 1968 and a World Heritage Site by UNESCO in 1978,[10] and is managed by Parks Canada.[11]

Etymology

L'Anse aux Meadows is a French-English name which can be translated as "Grassland Bay" (lit. "the bay with the grasslands").[12] How the village acquired this name is debated. L'Anse aux Meadows might be a corruption of the French L'Anse aux Méduses (Jellyfish Cove).[13][14][12] A more recent conjecture derives it from L'Anse à la Médée (Medea Cove),[15] as it is marked on an 1862 French naval chart, with Medée or Meduse possibly the name of a French naval vessel.[16] The English name "Meadows" may have occurred as folk etymology referring to the meadowy open landscape around the cove.[17]

History

Indigenous occupation

Main article: Newfoundland § Pre-colonisation

Before the Norse arrived in Newfoundland, there is evidence of occupations by five Indigenous groups at the site of L'Anse aux Meadows, the oldest dated to roughly 6,000 years ago. None were contemporaneous with the Norse occupation. The most prominent earlier occupation was by the Dorset people, who occupied the site about 300 years before the Norse. Radiocarbon date ranges for these groups are c. 4000 – c. 1000 BCE for the Maritime Archaic tradition, c. 1000 – c. 500 BCE for the Groswater tradition, c. 400 – c. 750 for the Middle Dorset, c. 800 – c. 850 for the Cow Head Group and Beaches traditions, and c. 1200 – c. 1500 CE (after the Norse) for the Little Passage tradition.[18]

Norse activity

The Norse settlement at L'Anse aux Meadows has been dated to approximately 1000 CE (carbon dating estimates 990–1050), with a mean carbon date of 1014,[3][19] an assessment that tallies with the relative dating of artifact and structure types.[2][1] A 2021 Nature study, using radiocarbon analysis of three separate tree ring samples and evidence from the anomaly in atmospheric 14C concentrations in the year 993, pinpointed 1021 as a date of Norse activity at L'Anse aux Meadows.[5][20]

Anthropologist John Steinberg has suggested the site may have been "occupied at least sporadically for perhaps 20 years" by the Norse.[20] Eleanor Barraclough[21] suggests the site was not a permanent settlement but a temporary boat repair facility.[22] She notes there are no findings of burials, tools, agriculture or animal pens—suggesting the inhabitants abandoned the site in an orderly fashion.[23] According to a 2019 PNAS study, there may have been Norse activity in L'Anse aux Meadows for as long as a century.[24]

L'Anse aux Meadows map
A = Large hall, B = House, C= Hut, D = Smallest of the three halls, E = Hut, F = Leader's hall, G = Hut, J = Smelting hut

There is no way to know the site's population at any given time, though the dwellings could accommodate 30 to 160 people.[25] The entire population of Greenland at the time was about 2,500, meaning that the L'Anse aux Meadows site was less than 10 percent of the Norse settlement on Greenland.[26] Julian D. Richards notes: "It seems highly unlikely that the Norse had sufficient resources to construct a string of such settlements."[26]

A model depicting the Norse settlement established at L'Anse aux Meadows

Today the area mostly consists of open, grassy lands, but 1000 years ago there were forests that were convenient for boatbuilding, housebuilding and iron extraction.[27]: 135  The remains of eight buildings (labelled from A–J) were found. They are believed to have been constructed of sod placed over a wooden frame. Based on associated artifacts, the buildings were identified as dwellings or workshops. The largest dwelling (F) measured 28.8 m × 15.6 m (94 ft × 51 ft) and consisted of several rooms.[18] Three small buildings (B, C, G) may have been workshops or living quarters for lower-status crew or slaves. Workshops were identified as an iron smithy (building J) containing a forge and iron slag,[22] a carpentry workshop (building D), which generated wood debris and a specialized boat repair area containing worn rivets.

Other things found at the site consisted of common everyday Norse items, including a stone oil lamp, a whetstone, a bronze fastening pin, a bone knitting needle and part of a spindle. Stone weights, which were found in building G, may have been part of a loom. The presence of the spindle and needle suggests that women as well as men inhabited the settlement.[28]

Food remains included butternuts, which do not grow naturally north of New Brunswick, so that the Norse inhabitants probably travelled farther south to obtain them.[29] There is evidence that the Norse hunted caribou, wolf, fox, bear, lynx, marten, many types of birds and fish, seal, whale and walrus. Harsh winters and ice cover force the game either to hibernate or venture south, and the lack of game must have made over-winter occupation difficult for the Norse.[27]: 134 

Discovery and significance (1960–68)

Anne Stine Ingstad at L'Anse aux Meadows, 1963. Ingstad, along with her husband, led an archaeological excavation of the site.

In 1960, the archaeological remains of Norse buildings were discovered in Newfoundland by the Norwegian husband-wife team of explorer Helge Ingstad and archaeologist Anne Stine Ingstad, who led an international team excavating during 1960-1968. Based on the idea that the Old Norse name Vinland in the Icelandic Sagas meant "wine-land", historians had long speculated that the Norse had landed in a region with wild grapes.[30] The common hypothesis before the Ingstads was that Vinland could not be north of the Massachusetts coast, the northern limit of wild grapes,[30] though they are also found in New Brunswick and the St. Lawrence River valley.[31]

The Ingstads doubted this hypothesis, believing the Norse would not have felt secure settling along the American Atlantic coast. Based on an alternative pronunciation, they proposed "that the name Vinland probably means land of meadows...and includes a peninsula."[27]: 123  (However, the later discovery of butternuts in the Norse stratum of the bog implies that the Norse did sail into the grape growing regions as well.[31])

The remains of Norse buildings on display. The remains of seven Norse buildings were uncovered during the Ingstads' excavation of the site.

In 1960, George Decker, a resident of the fishing hamlet of L'Anse aux Meadows, led Helge Ingstad to a group of mounds near the village that the locals called the "old Indian camp". The grassy mounds looked like the remains of houses.[28] Helge and Anne Ingstad carried out seven archaeological excavations there from 1961 to 1968, finding the remains of eight buildings and perhaps a ninth.[27]: 141  They determined that the site was a Norse settlement from the characteristics of its structures and artifacts, compared to sites in Greenland and Iceland from around 1000 CE.

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L'Anse aux Meadows is the only confirmed Norse site in North America outside Greenland,[32] and represents the farthest known extent of European exploration and settlement of the New World before the voyages of Christopher Columbus almost 500 years later. Historians have speculated that there were other Norse sites in the Canadian Arctic, or at least trade contacts between Norse and Native Americans.[33] In 2012, possible Norse outposts were identified in Nanook at Tanfield Valley on Baffin Island,[34] as well as Nunguvik, Willows Island and the Avayalik Islands.[35][36] In 2015 and 2016, Point Rosee in southwestern Newfoundland was excavated with no discoveries of a Norse presence.[32][37][38]

National historic site (1968–present)

Interior of the recreated Norse sod longhouse, north of the archaeological site

In November 1968, the Government of Canada named the archaeological site a National Historic Site of Canada. The site was also named a World Heritage Site in 1978 by UNESCO. After L'Anse aux Meadows was named a national historic site, the area, and its related tourist programs, have been managed by Parks Canada. After the first excavation was completed, two more excavations of the site were ordered by Parks Canada. The excavations fell under the direction of Bengt Schonbach from 1973 to 1975 and Birgitta Wallace, in 1976. Following each period of excavation, the site was reburied to protect and conserve the cultural resources.

The remains of seven Norse buildings are on display at the national historic site. North of the Norse remains are reconstructed buildings, built in the late 20th century, as a part of an interpretive display for the national historic site. The remains of an aboriginal hunting camp are also located at the site, southwest of the Norse remains. Other amenities at the site includes picnic areas, and a visitor centre.

Connection with Vinland sagas

The 1590 Skálholt Map showing Latinized Norse placenames in North America:[39]
• Land of the Risi (a mythical location)
• Greenland
• Helluland (Baffin Island)
• Markland (the Labrador Peninsula)
• Land of the Skrælings (location undetermined)
• Promontory of Vinland (the Great Northern Peninsula)

In 1073, the German cleric Adam of Bremen wrote the oldest known document mentioning Vinland, a history of the archbishops of Hamburg-Bremen, who held ecclesiastical authority over Norse Scandinavia at the time. He wrote:

He [the Danish king Sven Estridsson] also told me of another island discovered by many in that ocean. It is called Vinland because vines grow there on their own accord, producing the most excellent wine. Moreover, that unsown crops abound there, we have ascertained not from fabulous conjecture but from the reliable reports of the Danes.[40]

Two traditional Icelandic sagas, the Saga of the Greenlanders and the Saga of Erik the Red, tell of the Norse Greenlanders who discovered and attempted to settle a land to the west which they called Vinland. The sagas recount quarrels among the Norsemen and bloody fights with the native people they called Skrælings, which led to the abandonment of the effort.[41]

The settlements of Vinland mentioned in these two sagas, Leifsbudir (founded by Leif Erikson) and Hóp (Norse Greenlanders), have both been claimed to be the L'Anse aux Meadows site.[42][43] Dr. Stuart C. Brown of Memorial University, St Johns, Newfoundland reviewed Helge Ingstad's 1988 report for "Newfoundland Quarterly, Fall, 1988. In his review Brown wrote, "...Dr. lngstad's Procrustean attempt to demonstrate that L'Anse aux Meadows is Leifsbudir is wholly unconvincing..."[44]

See also

Notes

  1. ^ a b Nydal, Reidar (1989). "A Critical Review of Radiocarbon Dating of a Norse Settlement at L'Anse Aux Meadows, Newfoundland Canada". Radiocarbon. 31 (3): 976–985. Bibcode:1989Radcb..31..976N. doi:10.1017/S0033822200012613. eISSN 1945-5755. ISSN 0033-8222. Archived from the original on 22 November 2021. Retrieved 22 November 2021. With an assumed total systematic error of 30 ± 20 years, as a mean for various tree rings, the calibrated age range of L'Anse aux Meadows is AD 975–1020. This agrees well with the assumed historical age of ca AD 1000, a result which has also been recently corroborated by high-precision accelerator dating at the University of Toronto.
  2. ^ a b c Cordell, Linda S.; Lightfoot, Kent; McManamon, Francis; Milner, George (2009). "L'Anse aux Meadows National Historic Site". Archaeology in America: An Encyclopedia. ABC-CLIO. p. 82. ISBN 978-0-313-02189-3. Archived from the original on 25 April 2023. Retrieved 22 September 2016. This is a substantial base for analysis, which yields an entirely credible range of dates between 990 and 1050 and a mean date of 1014 CE, which is popularly rounded off at 1000 CE .
  3. ^ a b c d Ledger, Paul M.; Girdland-Flink, Linus; Forbes, Véronique (15 July 2019). "New horizons at L'Anse aux Meadows". Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 116 (31): 15341–15343. Bibcode:2019PNAS..11615341L. doi:10.1073/PNAS.1907986116. eISSN 1091-6490. ISSN 0027-8424. PMC 6681721. PMID 31308231. Modeling results were remarkably consistent, and model A suggests Norse occupation began Cal AD 910–1030..... A weighted mean of twig dates—notwithstanding issues associated with combination of 14C ages from multiple individuals—provided a result of AD 986–1022
  4. ^ Andrei, Mihai (11 September 2023). "Vikings did reach North America a thousand years ago -- and now we know exactly when". ZME Science.
  5. ^ a b Kuitems, Margot; Wallace, Birgitta L.; Lindsay, Charles; Scifo, Andrea; Doeve, Petra; Jenkins, Kevin; Lindauer, Susanne; Erdil, Pınar; Ledger, Paul M.; Forbes, Véronique; Vermeeren, Caroline (20 October 2021). "Evidence for European presence in the Americas in AD 1021". Nature. 601 (7893): 388–391. Bibcode:2022Natur.601..388K. doi:10.1038/s41586-021-03972-8. ISSN 1476-4687. PMC 8770119. PMID 34671168. S2CID 239051036. Our result of AD 1021 for the cutting year constitutes the only secure calendar date for the presence of Europeans across the Atlantic before the voyages of Columbus. Moreover, the fact that our results, on three different trees, converge on the same year is notable and unexpected. This coincidence strongly suggests Norse activity at L'Anse aux Meadows in AD 1021. In addition, our research demonstrates the potential of the AD 993 anomaly in atmospheric 14C concentrations for pinpointing the ages of past migrations and cultural interactions.
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  10. ^ "L'Anse aux Meadows National Historic Site". UNESCO World Heritage Center. Archived from the original on 16 June 2006. Retrieved 23 December 2018. L'Anse aux Meadows is the first and only known site established by Vikings in North America and the earliest evidence of European settlement in the New World. As such, it is a unique milestone in the history of human migration and discovery.
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  14. ^ Mentionné également par Lawrence Millman dans Coins perdus : un parcours dans l'Atlantique nord (titre original : Last Places), Terres d'aventure, 1995 ISBN 2-7427-0475-2.
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  22. ^ a b "L'Anse aux Meadows National Historic Site". Parks Canada. 30 March 2017. Archived from the original on 9 January 2019. Retrieved 8 January 2019. Smelting hut—this small isolated building contained a furnace for producing iron from bog ore. A simple smelter stood in the middle of the floor. A charcoal kiln was nearby. The amount and type of slag found suggests that a single smelt took place. Very little iron was manufactured, only enough for making about 100 to 200 nails.
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