L'Anse aux Meadows National Historic Site of Canada

Natural Wonders & Cultural Treasures

History

• Brief History
  5000 years of human habitation at L'Anse aux Meadows!
  
  
• The Vinland Saga
  A brief summary
  
  
• Discovery of the Site and Initial Excavations
  (1960-68).
  
  
• Native Sites
  
  
• Further Excavations by Parks Canada
  (1973-76).
  
  
• Is l'Anse aux Meadows Vinland?
  
  
• For further reading
  
  

L'Anse aux Meadows in Scientific Publications

Davis, Anthony M., J. H. McAndrews and Birgitta Wallace(1988)
"Paleoenvironment and the Archaeological Record at the L'Anse aux Meadows Site, Newfoundland." Geoarchaeology: An International Journal 3, 1:53-64.

Gimbarzevsky, Philip (1977)
L'Anse aux Meadows National Historic Park Integrated Survey of Biophysical Resources.
Information Report FMR-X-99, Forest Management Institute. Copies available from Environment Canada, Ottawa, Ontario.

Grant, Douglas R. (1975)
"Surficial Geology and Sea-Level Changes, L'Anse aux Meadows National Historic Park." Geological Survey of Canada, Paper 75-1, Part A, pp. 409-410. Ottawa.

Ingstad, Anne Stine and Helge Ingstad (1986)
The Norse Discovery of America. 2 vols..

Volume 1: Excavations at L'Anse aux Meadows, Newfoundland 1961-1968 430 pp., illus., Oslo:
The Norwegian University Press (reissue of Anne Stine Ingstad's 1977 "The discovery of a Norse Settlement in America. Excavations at L'Anse aux Meadows, Newfoundland 1961-1968").

Volume 2: The Historical Background and the Evidence of the Norse Settlement Discovered in Newfoundland. 573 pp., illus., Oslo: The Norwegian University Press.

Ingstad, Helge (1966)
Westward to Vinland: The Discovery of Pre-Columbian Norse House-Sites in North America 250 pp., illus., London: Jonathan Cape.

Lindsay, Charles S. (1977)
"Was L'Anse aux Meadows a Norse Outpost?" Canadian Geographic Journal, February/March 1977:36-43, illus.

Wallace, Birgitta Linderoth (1978)
"Les vikings à Terre-Neuve." Dossiers de l'archéologie, 27:44-48, 7 figs. Dijon: Archeologis; Bruxelles: Editions Soumillion.

(1986)
"The L'Anse aux Meadows Site." Appendix VII in The Norse Atlantic Saga, by Gwyn Jones ó editor, 1986.

(1990)
"L'Anse aux Meadows, Gateway to Vinland." Acta Archaeologica, 60:166-197.

(1992)
"L'Anse aux Meadows," in Medieval Scandinavia, Garland Encyclopaedias of the Middle Ages, ed. Philip Pulisiano et. al., Hamden, CT: Garland Publishing.

(1993)
"L'Anse aux Meadows, the Western Outpost," in Viking Voyages to North America, ed. Birthe L. Clausen, pp. 30-42. Rosklide, Denmark: Viking Ship Museum.