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L'Anse aux Meadows

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L'Anse aux Meadows is an archaeological site, first excavated in the 1960s, of a Norse settlement dating to approximately 1,000 years ago. [1]

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  1. 86 relations: Adam of Bremen, Americas, Anne Stine Ingstad, Archaeological site, Avayalik Islands, Baffin Island, Birgitta Wallace, Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, CBC Television, Christopher Columbus, Cow Head Group, Damals, Dendrochronology, Dorset culture, Eleanor Barraclough, Folk etymology, Forge, Former colonies and territories in Canada, Game (hunting), Government of Canada, Greenland, Groswater culture, Hearth, Helge Ingstad, Heritage Minutes, Historica Canada, History of Newfoundland and Labrador, Iceland, Indigenous peoples in Canada, Iron, Jellyfish, Juglans cinerea, Julian D. Richards, Lawrence Millman, Leif Erikson, Leifsbudir, List of National Historic Sites of Canada in Newfoundland and Labrador, List of oldest buildings in Canada, List of World Heritage Sites in Canada, List of World Heritage Sites in North America, Loom, Maritime Archaic, Massachusetts, Meadow, National Geographic Society, National Historic Sites of Canada, Nature (journal), Nature, Place, and Story, New Brunswick, New World, ... Expand index (36 more) »

  2. 11th century in North America
  3. Archaeological museums in Canada
  4. Archaeological sites in Newfoundland and Labrador
  5. Coves of Canada
  6. Culture of Newfoundland and Labrador
  7. European medieval architecture in North America
  8. Heritage sites in Newfoundland and Labrador
  9. History museums in Canada
  10. Museums in Newfoundland and Labrador
  11. National Historic Sites in Newfoundland and Labrador
  12. Pre-Columbian architecture
  13. Ruins in Canada
  14. Viking Age in Canada
  15. Viking Age museums
  16. World Heritage Sites in Canada

Adam of Bremen

Adam of Bremen (Adamus Bremensis; Adam von Bremen; before 1050 – 12 October 1081/1085) was a German medieval chronicler.

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Americas

The Americas, sometimes collectively called America, are a landmass comprising the totality of North America and South America.

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Anne Stine Ingstad

Anne Stine Ingstad (11 February 1918 – 6 November 1997) was a Norwegian archaeologist who, along with her husband explorer Helge Ingstad, discovered the remains of a Norse settlement at L'Anse aux Meadows in the Canadian province of Newfoundland and Labrador in 1960.

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Archaeological site

An archaeological site is a place (or group of physical sites) in which evidence of past activity is preserved (either prehistoric or historic or contemporary), and which has been, or may be, investigated using the discipline of archaeology and represents a part of the archaeological record.

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Avayalik Islands

The Avayalik Islands are a group of islands located in the Northern Atlantic Ocean, within the Canadian province of Newfoundland and Labrador.

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Baffin Island

Baffin Island (formerly Baffin Land), in the Canadian territory of Nunavut, is the largest island in Canada, the second largest island in the Americas (behind Greenland), and the fifth-largest island in the world.

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Birgitta Wallace

Birgitta Linderoth Wallace (born 1944) is a Swedish–Canadian archaeologist specialising in Norse archaeology in North America.

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Canadian Broadcasting Corporation

The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (Société Radio-Canada), branded as CBC/Radio-Canada, is the Canadian public broadcaster for both radio and television.

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CBC Television

CBC Television (also known as CBC TV, or simply CBC) is a Canadian English-language broadcast television network owned by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, the national public broadcaster.

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Christopher Columbus

Christopher Columbus (between 25 August and 31 October 1451 – 20 May 1506) was an Italian explorer and navigator from the Republic of Genoa who completed four Spanish-based voyages across the Atlantic Ocean sponsored by the Catholic Monarchs, opening the way for the widespread European exploration and colonization of the Americas.

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Cow Head Group

The Cow Head Group is a geologic group in Newfoundland and Labrador.

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Damals

Damals is a German monthly popular scientific history magazine.

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Dendrochronology

Dendrochronology (or tree-ring dating) is the scientific method of dating tree rings (also called growth rings) to the exact year they were formed in a tree.

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Dorset culture

The Dorset was a Paleo-Eskimo culture, lasting from to between and, that followed the Pre-Dorset and preceded the Thule people (proto-Inuit) in the North American Arctic.

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Eleanor Barraclough

Eleanor Rosamund Barraclough is a British cultural historian, broadcaster and writer.

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Folk etymology

Folk etymology – also known as (generative) popular etymology, analogical reformation, (morphological) reanalysis and etymological reinterpretation – is a change in a word or phrase resulting from the replacement of an unfamiliar form by a more familiar one through popular usage.

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Forge

A forge is a type of hearth used for heating metals, or the workplace (smithy) where such a hearth is located.

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Former colonies and territories in Canada

A number of states and polities formerly claimed colonies and territories in Canada prior to the evolution of the current provinces and territories under the federal system.

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Game (hunting)

Game or quarry is any wild animal hunted for animal products (primarily meat), for recreation ("sporting"), or for trophies.

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Government of Canada

The Government of Canada (Gouvernement du Canada) is the body responsible for the federal administration of Canada.

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Greenland

Greenland (Kalaallit Nunaat,; Grønland) is a North American island autonomous territory of the Kingdom of Denmark.

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Groswater culture

The Groswater culture was a Paleo-Eskimo culture that existed in Newfoundland and Labrador from 800 BC to 200 BC.

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Hearth

A hearth is the place in a home where a fire is or was traditionally kept for home heating and for cooking, usually constituted by at least a horizontal hearthstone and often enclosed to varying degrees by any combination of reredos (a low, partial wall behind a hearth), fireplace, oven, smoke hood, or chimney.

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Helge Ingstad

Helge Marcus Ingstad (30 December 1899 – 29 March 2001) was a Norwegian explorer. L'Anse aux Meadows and Helge Ingstad are Viking Age in Canada.

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Heritage Minutes

The Heritage Minutes is a series of sixty-second short films, each illustrating an important moment in Canadian history.

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Historica Canada

Historica Canada is a Canadian charitable organization dedicated to promoting the country's history and citizenship.

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History of Newfoundland and Labrador

The province of Newfoundland and Labrador covers the period from habitation by Archaic peoples thousands of years ago to the present day.

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Iceland

Iceland (Ísland) is a Nordic island country between the North Atlantic and Arctic Oceans, on the Mid-Atlantic Ridge between North America and Europe.

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Indigenous peoples in Canada

Indigenous peoples in Canada (Peuples autochtones au Canada, also known as Aboriginals) are the Indigenous peoples within the boundaries of Canada.

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Iron

Iron is a chemical element.

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Jellyfish

Jellyfish, also known as sea jellies, are the medusa-phase of certain gelatinous members of the subphylum Medusozoa, which is a major part of the phylum Cnidaria.

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Juglans cinerea

Juglans cinerea, commonly known as butternut or white walnut,Snow, Charles Henry.

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Julian D. Richards

Julian Daryl Richards is a British archaeologist and academic.

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Lawrence Millman

Lawrence Millman (born January 13, 1946, in Kansas City, Missouri) is an adventure travel writer and mycologist from Cambridge, Massachusetts.

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Leif Erikson

Leif Erikson, also known as Leif the Lucky, was a Norse explorer who is thought to have been the first European to set foot on continental America, approximately half a millennium before Christopher Columbus. L'Anse aux Meadows and Leif Erikson are Viking Age in Canada.

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Leifsbudir

Leifsbudir (Old Norse: Leifsbuðir) was a settlement, mentioned in the Greenland Saga, founded by Leif Eriksson in 1000 or 1001 in Vinland.

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List of National Historic Sites of Canada in Newfoundland and Labrador

This is a list of National Historic Sites (Lieux historiques nationaux) in the province of Newfoundland and Labrador. L'Anse aux Meadows and list of National Historic Sites of Canada in Newfoundland and Labrador are national Historic Sites in Newfoundland and Labrador.

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List of oldest buildings in Canada

This is a list of the oldest surviving buildings and structures of significance in each province and territory of Canada.

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List of World Heritage Sites in Canada

The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) World Heritage Sites are places of importance to cultural or natural heritage as described in the UNESCO World Heritage Convention, established in 1972. L'Anse aux Meadows and List of World Heritage Sites in Canada are world Heritage Sites in Canada.

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List of World Heritage Sites in North America

Below is a list of the UNESCO World Heritage Sites located in upper North America.

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Loom

A loom is a device used to weave cloth and tapestry.

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Maritime Archaic

The Maritime Archaic is a North American cultural complex of the Late Archaic along the coast of Newfoundland, the Canadian Maritimes and northern New England.

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Massachusetts

Massachusetts (script), officially the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, is a state in the New England region of the Northeastern United States.

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Meadow

A meadow is an open habitat or field, vegetated by grasses, herbs, and other non-woody plants.

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National Geographic Society

The National Geographic Society (NGS), headquartered in Washington, D.C., United States, is one of the largest nonprofit scientific and educational organizations in the world.

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National Historic Sites of Canada

National Historic Sites of Canada (Lieux historiques nationaux du Canada) are places that have been designated by the federal Minister of the Environment on the advice of the Historic Sites and Monuments Board of Canada (HSMBC), as being of national historic significance.

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Nature (journal)

Nature is a British weekly scientific journal founded and based in London, England.

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Nature, Place, and Story

Nature, Place, and Story: Rethinking Historic Sites in Canada is a 2017 book by Claire Elizabeth Campbell, professor of history at Bucknell University.

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New Brunswick

New Brunswick (Nouveau-Brunswick) is one of the thirteen provinces and territories of Canada.

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New World

The term "New World" is used to describe the majority of lands of Earth's Western Hemisphere, particularly the Americas.

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Newfoundland (island)

Newfoundland (Terre-Neuve) is a large island within the Canadian province of Newfoundland and Labrador.

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Newfoundland and Labrador

Newfoundland and Labrador (Terre-Neuve-et-Labrador; frequently abbreviated as NL) is the easternmost province of Canada, in the country's Atlantic region.

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Norse colonization of North America

The Norse exploration of North America began in the late 10th century, when Norsemen explored areas of the North Atlantic colonizing Greenland and creating a short term settlement near the northern tip of Newfoundland.

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Norsemen

The Norsemen (or Norse people) were a North Germanic linguistic group of the Early Middle Ages, during which they spoke the Old Norse language.

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Norway

Norway (Norge, Noreg), formally the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic country in Northern Europe, situated on the Scandinavian Peninsula.

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Oral tradition

Oral tradition, or oral lore, is a form of human communication in which knowledge, art, ideas and culture are received, preserved, and transmitted orally from one generation to another.

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Parks Canada

Parks Canada (Parcs Canada),Parks Canada is the applied title under the Federal Identity Program; the legal title is Parks Canada Agency.

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Point Rosee

Point Rosee (French: Pointe Rosée), previously known as Stormy Point, is a headland near Codroy at the southwest end of the island of Newfoundland, on the Atlantic coast of Canada. L'Anse aux Meadows and Point Rosee are archaeological sites in Newfoundland and Labrador.

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Pre-Columbian transoceanic contact theories

Pre-Columbian transoceanic contact theories are speculative theories which propose that visits to the Americas, interactions with the Indigenous peoples of the Americas, or both, were made by people from elsewhere prior to Christopher Columbus's first voyage to the Caribbean in 1492.

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Prince-Archbishopric of Bremen

The Prince-Archbishopric of Bremen (Fürsterzbistum Bremen) — not to be confused with the modern Archdiocese of Hamburg, founded in 1994 — was an ecclesiastical principality (787–1566/1648) of the Holy Roman Empire and the Catholic Church that after its definitive secularization in 1648 became the hereditary Duchy of Bremen (Herzogtum Bremen).

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Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America (often abbreviated PNAS or PNAS USA) is a peer-reviewed multidisciplinary scientific journal.

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Provinces and territories of Canada

Canada has ten provinces and three territories that are sub-national administrative divisions under the jurisdiction of the Canadian Constitution.

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Radiocarbon (journal)

Radiocarbon is a scientific journal devoted to the topic of radiocarbon dating.

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Rivet

A rivet is a permanent mechanical fastener.

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Saga of Erik the Red

The Saga of Erik the Red, in Eiríks saga rauða, is an Icelandic saga on the Norse exploration of North America. L'Anse aux Meadows and saga of Erik the Red are Viking Age in Canada.

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Saga of the Greenlanders

Grœnlendinga saga (spelled Grænlendinga saga in modern Icelandic and translated into English as the Saga of the Greenlanders) is one of the sagas of Icelanders.

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Sagas of Icelanders

The sagas of Icelanders (Íslendingasögur), also known as family sagas, are a subgenre, or text group, of Icelandic sagas.

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Sharpening stone

Sharpening stones, or whetstones, are used to sharpen the edges of steel tools such as knives through grinding and honing.

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Skræling

Skræling (Old Norse and Icelandic: skrælingi, plural skrælingjar) is the name the Norse Greenlanders used for the peoples they encountered in North America (Canada and Greenland).

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Slag

Slag is a by-product of smelting (pyrometallurgical) ores and recycled metals.

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Sod roof

A sod roof, or turf roof, is a traditional Scandinavian type of green roof covered with sod on top of several layers of birch bark on gently sloping wooden roof boards.

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St. Anthony, Newfoundland and Labrador

St.

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St. Barbe-L'Anse aux Meadows

St.

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Sweyn II of Denmark

Sweyn Estridsson Ulfsson (Sveinn Ástríðarson, Svend Estridsen; – 28 April 1076) was King of Denmark (being Sweyn II) from 1047 until his death in 1076.

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Tanfield Valley

Tanfield Valley, also referred to as Nanook, is an archaeological site located on Imiligaarjuit (formerly |Cape Tanfield), along the southernmost part of the Meta Incognita Peninsula of Baffin Island in the Canadian territory of Nunavut. L'Anse aux Meadows and Tanfield Valley are 11th century in North America, European medieval architecture in North America, Ruins in Canada and Viking Age in Canada.

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The Canadian Encyclopedia

The Canadian Encyclopedia (TCE; L'Encyclopédie canadienne) is the national encyclopedia of Canada, published online by the Toronto-based historical organization Historica Canada, with the support of the federal Department of Canadian Heritage.

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The Nature of Things

The Nature of Things (also, The Nature of Things with David Suzuki) is a Canadian television series of documentary programs.

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Thorfinn Karlsefni

Thorfinn Karlsefni Thórdarson was an Icelandic explorer. L'Anse aux Meadows and Thorfinn Karlsefni are Viking Age in Canada.

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UNESCO

The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO; pronounced) is a specialized agency of the United Nations (UN) with the aim of promoting world peace and security through international cooperation in education, arts, sciences and culture.

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Vinland

Vinland, Vineland, or Winland (lit) was an area of coastal North America explored by Vikings. L'Anse aux Meadows and Vinland are Viking Age in Canada and Viking Age populated places.

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Vinland Map

The Vinland Map was claimed to be a 15th-century mappa mundi with unique information about Norse exploration of North America but is now known to be a 20th-century forgery. L'Anse aux Meadows and Vinland Map are Viking Age in Canada.

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Visitor center

A visitor center or centre (see American and British English spelling differences), visitor information center or tourist information centre is a physical location that provides information to tourists.

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Vitis

Vitis (grapevine) is a genus of 81 accepted species of vining plants in the flowering plant family Vitaceae.

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World Heritage Committee

The World Heritage Committee is a committee of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization that selects the sites to be listed as UNESCO World Heritage Sites, including the World Heritage List and the List of World Heritage in Danger, defines the use of the World Heritage Fund and allocates financial assistance upon requests from States Parties.

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World Heritage Site

World Heritage Sites are landmarks and areas with legal protection by an international convention administered by UNESCO for having cultural, historical, or scientific significance.

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993–994 carbon-14 spike

The 993–994 carbon-14 spike was a rapid 0.91% increase in carbon-14 isotope content from tree rings dated 993-994 CE.

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See also

11th century in North America

Archaeological museums in Canada

Archaeological sites in Newfoundland and Labrador

Coves of Canada

Culture of Newfoundland and Labrador

European medieval architecture in North America

Heritage sites in Newfoundland and Labrador

History museums in Canada

Museums in Newfoundland and Labrador

National Historic Sites in Newfoundland and Labrador

Pre-Columbian architecture

Ruins in Canada

Viking Age in Canada

Viking Age museums

World Heritage Sites in Canada

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L'Anse_aux_Meadows

Also known as Anse aux Meadows, Anse à la Médée, Jellyfish Cove, L Anse Aux Meadows, L'Anse Aux Meadows Archaeological Site, L'Anse aux Meadows, Newfoundland and Labrador, L'Anse aux Méduses, L'Anse-aux-Meadows, L'Anse-aux-Méduses, LAnse aux Meadows, Lans aux meadows, L’Anse aux Meadows National Historic Site.

, Newfoundland (island), Newfoundland and Labrador, Norse colonization of North America, Norsemen, Norway, Oral tradition, Parks Canada, Point Rosee, Pre-Columbian transoceanic contact theories, Prince-Archbishopric of Bremen, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, Provinces and territories of Canada, Radiocarbon (journal), Rivet, Saga of Erik the Red, Saga of the Greenlanders, Sagas of Icelanders, Sharpening stone, Skræling, Slag, Sod roof, St. Anthony, Newfoundland and Labrador, St. Barbe-L'Anse aux Meadows, Sweyn II of Denmark, Tanfield Valley, The Canadian Encyclopedia, The Nature of Things, Thorfinn Karlsefni, UNESCO, Vinland, Vinland Map, Visitor center, Vitis, World Heritage Committee, World Heritage Site, 993–994 carbon-14 spike.