Ancillary Analyses

A great many ancillary analyses were performed for the L’Anse aux Meadows site: faunal analyses, shell analyses, pollen analyses, seed analyses, wood identifications, phosphate analyses, other soil analyses, chemical analyses for soil disturbances, petrographic analyses, metallurgical analyses and other metallurgical studies, radiocarbon dating, air photo interpretation and air surveys. There were also environmental studies of the local geology, vegetation, mammals, birds, and fish. Here you will be introduced to a couple of samples of the analyses.

The outer rings of one of the branches were radiocarbon-dated by the Isotrace Laboratory at the University of Toronto according to the AMS-method to AD 1000 ±10. (TO-119).

Chapters in Books

• Kevin P. Smith, [Jasper Analysis in] Who Lived at L'Anse aux Meadows , Vikings: The North Atlantic Saga, 2000

Government Documents

• John E. Dawson, Identification of Samples of Archaeological Seeds from L'Anse aux Meadows, Newfoundland, May 31, 1977
• Anne Rick, L'Anse aux Meadows Faunal Analysis, October 5, 1977
• Paul Gleeson, Study of Wood Material from L'Anse aux Meadows, 1979
• Henry Unglik, M. Eng. and John Stewart, MSc., The Metallurgy of Norse Material from L'Anse aux Meadows, Newfoundland vol. 1, 1999

Journal Articles

• A.M. Davis, J.H. McAndrews, B.L. Wallace, Paleoenvironment and the Archaeological Record at L'Anse aux Meadows Site, Newfoundland, Geoarchaeology: An International Journal, 1988

Letters

• John Stewart, Seed Report Letter, Parks Canada, May 17, 1977

Maps

• Vis-à-Vis Graphics, Norse Radiocarbon Date Graph, 2006