Onyx8 wrote:I can understand carrying iron as ballast but why carry rock?

The Stuff of Legends

Was Point Rosee a Viking outpost a thousand or so years ago? The evidence thus far is promising. The turf structure that partially surrounds the hearth is nothing like the shelters built by indigenous peoples who lived in Newfoundland at the time, nor by Basque fishermen and whalers who arrived in the 16th century. And, while iron slag may be fairly generic, “there aren’t any known cultures—prehistoric or modern—that would have been mining and roasting bog iron ore in Newfoundland other than the Norse,” says Bolender.

Very few artifacts have been found at Point Rosee, but that’s actually a good sign. Most Norse possessions haven’t preserved well; they were typically made from wood, which decayed, or iron, which either decayed or was melted down to make something else. Archaeologists conducted seven excavations at L’Anse aux Meadows, from 1961 to 1968, before they had sufficient evidence to confirm it was a Norse outpost. And even then they found only a handful of personal items, such as a bronze pin, a needle hone, and a stone lamp. If the archaeologists had found many artifacts at Point Rosee, then it probably wouldn’t be a Viking site.

Veida wrote:I didn't realize the made iron at L'Anse aux Meadows before.

Why are we arguing about whether vikings made iron when we know they did it at L'Anse aux Meadows?

felltoearth wrote:

Veida wrote:I didn't realize the made iron at L'Anse aux Meadows before.

Why are we arguing about whether vikings made iron when we know they did it at L'Anse aux Meadows?

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Broadening traditional satellite archaeology, namely research dealing with more
historical periods, will facilitate its application in other areas of archaeology and anthro-
pology (Couzy 1985; Kruckman 1987; Davenport 2001). For example, inOlduvai Gorge
(Figure 9-1), archaeologists used GPS points to map layers of ash sediment, using geo-
logical strata to trace associated hominid remains deposited throughout the landscape
(Ebert and Blumenschine 1999). If there are consistencies in hominid deposition layers,
then satellites should be able to detect similar spectral signatures elsewhere in land-
scapes revealing additional hominid deposition layers. Digital elevation models would
help physical anthropologists better map such landscapes. Satellite imagery can also
detect past water sources, which in turn could yield evidence for adjacent early human
activity. Similar approaches could be attempted for paleontology, where dinosaur bones
appear in specific geological strata (Figure 9-2).