[Rockhounds] Researchers pinpoint when the Vikings came to Canada.

[Paul]

Researchers pinpoint when the Vikings came
to Canada. It was exactly 1,000 years ago
Becky Sullivan, NPR news, October 21, 2021
https://www.npr.org/2021/10/21/1047797376/researchers-discovered-the-date-vikings-arrived-in-canada

New Research Provides Evidence that Vikings
were Present in Newfoundland 1,000 Years Ago
Sci News, October 22, 2021
http://www.sci-news.com/archaeology/newfoundland-vikings-10195.html

The open access paper is:

Kuitems, M., Wallace, B.L., Lindsay, C., Scifo, A.,
Doeve, P., Jenkins, K., Lindauer, S., Erdil, P., Ledger,
P.M., Forbes, V. and Vermeeren, C., 2021. Evidence
for European presence in the Americas in ad 1021.
Nature, pp.1-4.
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-021-03972-8

Yours,

Paul H.