The Case of the Greenlandic Assembly Sites

Bibliographic Data

ID4690282
AuthorsAlexandra Sanmark (Southbank Centre, corresponding author)
Year2009
Volume201
Pages178-192
Publication date2009-01-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueJournal of the North Atlantic (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1935-1933 • E-ISSN: 1935-1933
PublisherJournal of the North Atlantic (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.3721/037.002.s218
OpenAlexW2047320914
LanguageEN
Citations received9
References cited11

In the early 20th century, scholars identified two possible Greenlandic assembly sites at Brattahlíð and Garðar, respectively. Later scholars, with one exception, have neither refuted nor corroborated this, and research on this topic has therefore not significantly moved forward in the last 100 years. In this article, the two proposed assembly sites are examined in the light of recent research. It is demonstrated that there are striking similarities between the Greenlandic and Scandinavian and Icelandic assembly sites, which strongly support the identification of the former as assembly sites. Further archaeological fieldwork is, however, needed in order to clarify the issues raised in this paper as well as providing new evidence, particularly for dating

Archaeology · Biology · Business · Genealogy · Geography · Icelandic · Identification (biology) · Linguistics · Order (exchange) · Ecology · Historical and Archaeological Studies · History · Philosophy

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