Contact between the Norse Vikings and the Dorset culture in Arctic Canada

• Autores: Robert W. Park
• Localización: Antiquity, ISSN 0003-598X, Vol. 82, Nº 315, 2008, págs. 189-198
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • Instances of cultural interaction between Norse and native American have long been accepted. But current archaeological research recognises that the indigenous peoples of the north were themselves diverse and had diverse histories. Here the author shows that the culture of one of them, the Dorset people, owed nothing to the Norse and probably had no contact with them.