The Vinland Adventure
A North Atlantic Perspective
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 11380271 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Thomas H Mc Govern (Department of Anthropology, Hunter College, City University of New York, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1982 |
| Volume | 2 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 285-308 |
| Publication date | 1982-04-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | North American Archaeologist (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0197-6931 • E-ISSN: 1541-3543 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.2190/6hn5-ac9t-twvj-qdxm |
| OpenAlex | W2021445581 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 12 |
| References cited | 28 |
During the Viking period, Norse seafarers from Greenland attempted to plant a settlement on the North American continent. This Vinland settlement faltered in its early phases and was not successful. Its failure may be best understood from the broader perspective of the Scandinavian expansion across the North Atlantic islands which began ca. AD 800. Adaptive shifts in the older North Atlantic colonies, geographical factors, and the resistance of Native Americans may have combined to doom this Western-most medieval colony
Adventure · Archaeology · Art · Ethnology · Geography · Period (music · Resistance (ecology · Settlement (finance · Viking Age · Archaeology and ancient environmental studies · History · Indigenous Studies and Ecology · Ecology
Reply to Comments from James H. Barrett, Kevin J. Edwards, Jón Viðar Sigurðsson, Guðrún Sveinbjarnardóttir and Przemysław Urbańczyk
The Norse landnám on the North Atlantic islands
Towards an anti-colonial Vínland
Northern Islands, human error, and environmental degradation
The Archeology of the Norse North Atlantic
Contact, Incorporation, and the North American Southeast
Contact between Native North Americans and the Medieval Norse
The Spanish Entrada
The Dorset
L'Anse Aux Meadows, Leif Eriksson's Home in Vinland
General principles behind traditional environmental knowledge
Close encounters of the worst kind
Cyclic climatic variations in climate over the past 5,500 yr reflected in raised bogs
Resilience and Stability of Ecological Systems
The Theory of Island Biogeography
Coins and Coinage in Viking-Age Norway
Notes on Norse Finds from the East Coast of Ellesmere Island, N.W.T
Human and cattle population changes in deltaic West Bengal, India between 1967 and 1977
The niche concept
Western Elements in the Early Thule Culture of the Eastern High Arctic
Farm mounds in North Norway, a review of recent research
The food crisis in prehistory
Pilgrim Colony
The use of non‐metrical variations of the cranium in the study of Scandinavian population movements
Population Changes in Iceland
Biology, biogeography and man
Long term hunter-gatherer adaptation to desert environments
Family and Community in Ireland
Iron Utilization by Thule Eskimos of Central Canada
On Causes and Consequences of Ancient and Modern Population Changes1
| Unique citing works | 12 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,29 |
| Citation span | 1984 - 2026 (43) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 12 |