Memorial University researchers are reporting new archaeological information uncovered at L’Anse aux Meadows points to Indigenous activity in the area.
The site is near where Dr. Helge Ingstadt and Anne Stine Ingstadt discovered ancient Norse ruins—the only confirmed Norse site in North America—in the 1960s.
The team says while working about 30-metres from the 1000-year-old Norse ruins, Dr. Paul Ledger and his colleagues—including Dr. Veronique Forbes—found new evidence of human activity at the site.
Ledger says the charcoal and bits of wood-working debris have been carbon-dated to the early 1300s to mid 1400s, and point to Indigenous activity in the area. Who those people were, however, is harder to pinpoint despite the information collected.
He says the evidence raises more questions than it answers.