L'Anse aux Meadows

High school (ages 12+)
History & Culture

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Step 1 · Read the article

Open the article and read it at the level above. Then answer the questions below in your own words.

https://smallwhale.org/articles/lanse-aux-meadows

Write what each word means, using the article.

Do not copy the article. Write two things you learned, the way you would explain them to a friend.

Answers below are taken from the article’s stored facts, so they match what the student read.

1. What is the geographic location?Tip of the Great Northern Peninsula, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada
2. What is the chronological placement?Norse settlement dated to approximately 1000 CE (990-1050 CE)
3. When did the Vikings live there?Radiocarbon dating shows the settlement was built between 990 and 1050 CE. A tree-ring date points to 1021 CE.
4. How many buildings were found at the site?Archaeologists discovered eight wooden structures covered with sod, showing a small village.

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Eurocentric: A worldview centered on European culture and values, often to the exclusion of other perspectives.