{"id":4766,"date":"2012-12-01T15:15:34","date_gmt":"2012-12-01T22:15:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=4766"},"modified":"2012-12-01T15:15:34","modified_gmt":"2012-12-01T22:15:34","slug":"the-norse-on-baffin-island","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=4766","title":{"rendered":"The Norse on Baffin Island"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Swedish archaeologist Martin Rundkvist discusses evidence of a Norse presence on <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Baffin_Island\">Baffin Islan<\/a>d in the Canadian Arctic and <a href=\"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/aardvarchaeology\/2012\/10\/31\/medieval-norse-trappers-on-baffin-island\/\">whether the people who were there were seasonal trappers or trying to establish a year-round settlement.\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Remains of Old World rats are indicative.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>So what we have here is High Medieval Christian Norse-speakers gone native in Arctic north-east Canada. Interesting stuff! But as so often \u2013 don\u2019t believe the headlines.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>And he reminds us,<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Note that while <em>NatGeo\u2019s<\/em> writer calls the Tanfield settlers \u201cVikings\u201d, Dr. Sutherland wisely calls them \u201cNorse\u201d. The sites are post-Viking Period, and even during the Viking Period, most people were never Vikings. That was a part-time men-only occupation, not an ethnicity.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The past is always more complex than we imagine.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Swedish archaeologist Martin Rundkvist discusses evidence of a Norse presence on Baffin Island in the Canadian Arctic and whether the people who were there were seasonal trappers or trying to establish a year-round settlement.\u00a0 Remains of Old World rats are indicative. So what we have here is High Medieval Christian Norse-speakers gone native in Arctic [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[20,94,134],"class_list":["post-4766","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-archaeology","tag-canada","tag-norse"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6xQTg-1eS","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":7957,"url":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=7957","url_meta":{"origin":4766,"position":0},"title":"Trolls through Time","author":"Chas S. 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