L'Anse aux Meadows

L’Anse aux Meadows, a UNESCO World Heritage Site is located “at the tip of the Great Northern Peninsula of the island of Newfoundland” (UNESCO). This site is significant because it “is evidence of the earliest known European prescence on the American continent” (UNESCO). Figure 1: Map of the location of L'Anse aux Meadows (Wallace 2003:7) The first set of excavators were Dr. Helge Ingstad and his wife, Dr. Anne Stine Ingstad, who were in search for archeological evidence of Vikings in North America

Christopher Columbus was born in Genova, Italy, in 1451. At a young age, Columbus found himself interested on traveling, and how the Earth was constituted. He had made innumerable voyages. On August 3, 1492, Christopher Columbus set out on a journey from Puerto de Palos, in search of new lands. His crew was composed of three caravels (La Pinta, La Niña, and La Santa Maria), and a crew of 120 men total. On October 12, 1492, thirty three days after he departed on his new journey, Columbus landed

History Paper Who discovered America? By: Deanne Mastrocola Why is it that American culture today attributes its geographic discovery to a man named Christopher Columbus? Could it be that he was the first European to claim this land as part of an Imperialistic expansion or is it merely out of convenience for the history books? It is known that the American continent was populated by 1000 AD which is long before settlements by Viking fisherman and even longer before the arrival of Columbus

Leif Erikson day. Leif Erikson is the Norse viking who really discovered the North American continent, and he did so over 500 years before Columbus was even born. Located on the Northernmost of Newfoundland in Canada, there is a village called L’Anse aux Meadows. It is the only known site of a Norse village in North America outside of Greenland. When it was still a Norse village, there were three timber and sod longhouses, and also five smaller turf houses. Now, there are only replicas of those buildings

While the Viking Era was rather brief, these infamous Scandinavian brutes left a mark in history larger than they themselves were tall. The Vikings emerged from the present-day area in Northern Europe known as Scandinavia, which consists of the countries of Sweden, Denmark, and Norway. Named for their legendary raids, the name “Viking” is said to mean “a pirate raid” and originates from a dead language called “Old Norse”, which was the native tongue of the Vikings. Contrary to the widely Christian

people lived in impermanent settlements, and in more settled groups, women tended the crops while the men hunted, fished, gathered fuel, and cleared fields. 3) Indirect Discoverers of the New World a) Norse seafarers from Scandinavia landed at L’Anse aux Meadows (present Newfoundland) i) A lot of grapes which led them to name the place Vinland, but their flimsy settlements were soon abandoned and their discovery was forgotten b) Europe craved the Asian goods such as silk, drugs for aching flesh, perfumes

Scandinavians (Vikings) had first settled in southern Scandinavia, but then they started to seek and explore just as every other nation in history. They had started to divide into separate factions and were loosely structured, but they still had enough in common to work together and expand. They stretched from their southern Scandinavia to England, a bunch of really tiny islands, tips of Europe's mainland, Iceland, Greenland, and landed in Newfoundland (which they called Vinland). They had skirted

land in the west from an Icelandic trader, and went to find it.The precise identity of Vinland remains uncertain, with various locations on the North American coast identified. In 1963, archaeologists found ruins of a Viking-type settlement at L'Anse aux Meadows, in northern Newfoundland, which correspond to Leif's description of Vinland.

Kenneth C. Davis, the author of Don’t Know Much about History, claimed that the true discoverers of America were the people whose cultures and societies were well established here while Europe was still in the Dark Ages, the so-called Indians. For all the diversity of the First Americans, they inherited certain common traits from their old world ancestors. Reflecting their Asiatic heritage, they were generally short to medium stature, with straight black hair, light brown skin, had epicanthic fold

“In 1492, Columbus sailed the ocean blue.” Have you ever heard of this famous quote? This quote is about Christopher Columbus and his discovery of the Americas. On the first Monday in October, we celebrate Columbus Day, based on the belief that he discovered the Americas. One might conclude that Christopher Columbus did not discover the Americas because the Native Americans, Vikings, and Phoenicians had already set foot there. First of all, when Christopher Columbus set foot in the Americas, he