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Old 07-08-2007, 09:59 PM
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I don't remember how I found this link, but it's an interesting read. Scroll down to the section about the knife.

http://heritage.tantramar.com/Newsletter_31.html
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Old 07-09-2007, 08:32 AM
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That's interesting... I often wonder just how far some of the things traded during the Viking Era got in the New World. A lot of folks don't realize that the people of the extreme Northern climes had constant intermittent contact. That little copper bit must have been prized!


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Old 07-09-2007, 10:38 AM
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In the southeastern U.S. you find stuff made from items of European origin from De Soto's expedition of 1540 onwards. Based on the date conjectured for that knife, along with its location, I'd guess it could be a brass kettle fragment from a Basque fishing expedition. The Basques were fishing Georges Bank and the Grand Banks off Nova Scotia as far back as the late 1200s AD if not earlier, and they did sometimes go ashore to do repairs and so on. Interesting that is in the same vicinity of the Norse expeditions of around 1000-1350 AD as well.

And J?l is absolutely correct, the circumpolar regions are considered their own entity for archaeological purposes. Until the rise of iron age Norse, every culture who lived along the margins of the sea ice from Lapland to Greenland (headed east to west) did pretty much the same thing. There were different ethnic stocks, and still are, but the material culture is remarkably similar.

If you want some real fun, do a search for the copper daggers of the Athabascan/Dine peoples of the Yukon and British Columbia. Talk about some neat-o stuff...
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