... An amazing new UNESCO site👍... set against a stunning backdrop of rugged cliffs, bog, and coastline... this unique archaeological site has grown into an entire open-air museum showcasing the breadth of Viking culture and history in North America.... L’Anse aux Meadows has an powerful place in the history of the human migrations... we all learned in history classes how in 1492 Christopher Columbus sailed the ocean and arrived in North America... but did you know that 5 centuries before him, vikings from Greenland were actually the first Europeans to set foot in North America??... Parks Canada built the Viking Encampment near the excavation site, using traditional Norse construction methods, to show visitors how the Norse settlers of long ago might have lived... today, you can visit reproductions of a Norse longhouse, small house/workshop, hut, furnace and discover original artifacts (even with a few costumed actors)...
💜Big Thanks Andrene!!💜
"Reconstructed sod huts provide a glimpse of what life was like for the Norse who dwelled at L'Anse Aux Meadows 1000 years ago."
L'Anse aux Meadows from the French L'Anse à la Médée or ("Medea Cove"), is an archaeological site on the northernmost tip of the Great Northern Peninsula on the island of Newfoundland in the Canadian province of Newfoundland and Labrador.
Discovered in 1960 by explorer Helge Ingstad and his wife, archaeologist Anne Stineit who excavated it and found artifacts proving it was a Norse settlement. It is the only certain site of a Norse or Viking settlement in North America.
It was named a World Heritage site by UNESCO in 1978.
Stamps:
3X The 100th Anniversary of the Halifax Explosion
(Issued 06-11-2017)
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