We went because: To see the remains of the first Viking settlement in North America (A.D. 1000) located at the tip of the Great Northern Peninsula in Newfoundland. Don't miss: Docent tour, included ...

L'Anse aux Meadows is the first and only known site established by Vikings in North America. It is now home to a recreation of a Viking timber-and-sod-longhouse. Archaeological evidence found in the ...

With a last name of Erickson, it's not surprising that I'd be warmly welcomed in L'Anse aux Meadows, Newfoundland. After all, my ancestor Leif made quite a splash when he arrived a thousand years ago.

My nine-year-old son, Stephen, is taking a school course on the Vikings landing in Newfoundland, 1,000 years ago. He is very excited about this course and comes home every day with another new fact. I ...

This paper explores pre-contact hunting at L'Anse aux Meadows National Historic Site in Newfoundland, Canada during the Late Holocene. Data from over 40 years of excavations are interpreted in light ...

Vikings from Greenland — the first Europeans to arrive in the Americas — lived in a village in Canada’s Newfoundland exactly 1,000 years ago, according to research published Wednesday. Scientists have ...

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Six decades ago, a husband-and-wife team of archaeologists discovered the remains of a settlement on the windswept northern tip of Newfoundland. The site’s eight timber-framed structures resemble ...