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June 1, 2009
More Vikings in North America?
One of Canada's top Arctic archeologists says the remnants of a stone-and-sod wall unearthed on southern Baffin Island may be traces of a shelter built more than 700 years ago by Norse seafarers, a stunning find that would be just the second location in the New World with evidence of a Viking-built structure.
There's disagreement, but some of the architectural evidence seems very convincing - when people build a drain they do it the way they know how. That's to say the underpinnings of a house are very helpful for establishing the folk ways behind the builders. It doesn't really tell us much about who used the building, but there you go - archaeology always has problems to untangle.
Posted by CrankyProfessor at June 1, 2009 7:01 AM
Comments
"The theory is controversial."
You gotta love it when scientists go at it over a theory. It's more fun than cage match boxing. I wonder how someone feels when 10 years of their work becomes sport shooting for other archaeologists.
- Suzanne
Posted by: Suzanne at June 1, 2009 10:25 AM