Posted on 11/03/2012 12:07:50 PM PDT by SunkenCiv
Archaeologist Patricia Sutherland (orange jacket) excavates a potential Viking site on Baffin Island. Photograph by David Coventry, National Geographic
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Every time I see pictures of excavations like this I think there is some great treasure in those little partitions of soil they leave between the dig holes. Probably gold. LOL
VIKINGS Scripted Series Coming to History Channel
I also just watched a 3-part tv series hosted by Neil Oliver, which was produced for the BBC. Oliver is Scottish born, and as a historian and archaeologist, has hosted several interesting historical documentaries. Even if the topics he covers weren't interesting, I'd enjoy just listening to his Scottish accent. It's wonderful.
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I cannot authenticate what I am about to say and I blame no one if they disbelieve it. It is taken from memory.
Several years ago we clipped out of a newspaper a story where archaeological evidence was supposedly found showing the Vikings tied their ships to islands, now buttes, in the Turtle Mountains of ND and Manitoba. At that time much of ND was a lake that was supposedly connected through other waterways to the Atlantic.
Interesting, that’s new to me.
Yeah, those types of structures are BC in date, and are obviously culturally linked with similar structures east of the Atlantic. Uniquely in North America they are attributed to glacial action by Denialists. :’) There used to be a huge-lettered inscription carved into some cliff by the sea somewhere in New England, reported during colonial times, but the whole face fell off before photography, only descriptions and maybe a drawing survives.
The most famous is probably Mystery Hill in New Hampshire. That one was attributed to some colonial-era family which lived on the site and built something on top the already extant megalithic structures. Remaining isolationist idiots regard such structures as “colonial root cellars”, which is obviously stupid. One of the Pennsylvania universities did archaeology at Mystery Hill back in the 1990s, and found that a hearth site located *inside* the structure RC dated to 2000 BC.
Thank you for the reference at DMR ND.
I will never forget reading about the mooring stones at the high elevations because we own property on the second highest elevation in the Turtle Mountains.
Thanks mass55th!
If you follow the Merrimack up to the area near North Salem, NH the shore line is a perfect landing place, when the river was running free unconstricted by dams.
Newburyport/Amesbury was a very good harbor. The only problem might have been rocks in Haverhill.
Canada Ping!
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