Greenland Archive
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Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - Greenland, the world's largest island, was colonized by Erik the Red in the late 10th century. His primary objective was to establish a
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Books
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - In 985, Viking explorer Erik the Red led a group of Icelandic farmers to Greenland, where they established a settlement on the west
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Historical records have long suggested that Medieval Norse colonists on Greenland (AD 985–1450) relied on imported materials such as iron and wood. Until
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Vikings
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Vikings occupied Greenland from roughly 985 to 1450, farming and building communities before abandoning their settlements and mysteriously vanishing. Why they disappeared has
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Two-million-year-old DNA has been identified for the first time—opening a 'game-changing' new chapter in the history of evolution. Microscopic fragments of environmental DNA
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AncientPages.com - First, what is an ice age? It’s when the Earth has cold temperatures for a long time – millions to tens of millions of years – that
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - One of the great mysteries of late medieval history is why did the Norse, who had established successful settlements in southern Greenland in
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Featured Stories
Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - Erik the Red was a famous Viking today remembered for colonizing Greenland and being the father of the great Viking explorer Leif Erikson. Credit: Adobe Stock
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A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - Unlike American Indians, the Inuit people of Canada and Greenland have not in their cultural legacy many mythological stories from the time before
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A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - The moon god of the Eskimo people is Igaluk but it is only one of his several names. According to the indigenous peoples
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Archaeology
AncientPages.com - Sometimes important clues regarding the rise and fall of ancient European civilizations can be found in strange places. Ice core records from the distant Greenland ice sheet
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Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - If you had the misfortune of crossing Freydis Eiriksdottir's path today, it would be in your best interest not to mess with her. To
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Ancient History Facts
Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - Greenland is beautiful, but the massive island is not very green. Located between the Arctic and Atlantic Oceans, east of the Canadian Arctic
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Ancient Technology
A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - "Only since the late 1700s has it been possible to collect & record truly accurate geographic information." (Encarta Encyclopedia: Geography & Maps, History of...)
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