Archaeologists have precisely dated the Norse settlement at L’Anse aux Meadows in Newfoundland to AD 1021, making it the earliest confirmed European presence in North America. Using radiocarbon analysis alongside solar-event dating of wooden artifacts, researchers say the site’s faint remains had been overlooked for years—now reshaping Atlantic history long before Columbus.
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