Wooden artifacts discovered in Canada date precisely to the year 1021, which is the earliest known record of humans crossing from Europe to America, according to a study published Wednesday in the British journal Nature.
Archaeologists working in central Norway recently came upon two mysterious Viking boat graves.Scientists are confident the artifacts belonged to the Vikings.We now know when the Vikings came to America.
Wooden artifacts discovered in Newfoundland, Canada, date precisely to the year 1021, which is the earliest known record of humans crossing from Europe to America, according to a study published Wednesday in theThis is"the only known date for Europeans in the Americas before Columbus," archaeologist and study co-author Michael Dee of the University of Groningen in the Netherlands told USA TODAY.
“Previously the date was based only on sagas – oral histories that were only written down in the 13th century, at least 200 years after the events they described took place,” she said. As for the year when the artifacts were created, researchers were able to pinpoint the precise time by using the atmospheric carbon record to determine exact radiocarbon dates for the felling of the trees from which the artifacts were made.
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