Kat Spade

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Scientists have confirmed that Viking explorers reached the Americas nearly 500 years before Christopher Columbus.

A recent study establishes that Norse seafarers were present at what is now L'Anse aux Meadows in Newfoundland Canada during the year 1021 AD. This date precedes Columbus arrival in 1492 by almost five centuries.

The evidence comes from three pieces of wood recovered at the Viking site. Each piece displayed clear marks of being cut with metal tools a technology not used by Indigenous groups in the area at that time.

Researchers achieved remarkable precision in dating the artifacts by analyzing a distinctive marker from a powerful solar storm that occurred in 992 AD. This event caused a sharp increase in atmospheric carbon 14 which left a detectable signature in tree rings worldwide the following year.

By identifying this carbon signal in the wood samples and counting 29 annual growth rings outward to the bark scientists determined the trees were felled precisely in 1021 AD.

This finding represents the earliest scientifically verified instance of European presence in the Americas.

For generations historians relied on Icelandic sagas describing voyages led by Leif Erikson. Those narratives however were recorded centuries after the events and blend historical facts with legendary elements.

The new research supplies direct archaeological proof anchored to an exact calendar year.

The settlement appears to have been temporary and many questions remain regarding the duration of Norse activity in North America and their interactions with local Indigenous populations.

Nevertheless analysis of a solar storm from more than a thousand years ago now allows researchers to state with high confidence that Europeans reached the Americas in 1021 AD.

[Kuitems M et al. Evidence for European presence in the Americas in AD 1021. Nature. 2021. DOI 10.1038 s41586 021 03972 8]

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