SOURCE: The Conversation
8-21-13
tags: discoveries, Vikings, exploration, Faroe Islands
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8-21-13
Vikings didn’t find Faroes first (they were 500 years late)
Breaking Newstags: discoveries, Vikings, exploration, Faroe Islands
The Faroe Islands could have been inhabited 500 years earlier than was previously thought, according to a startling archaeological discovery.
The islands had been thought to be originally colonised by the Vikings in the 9th century AD. However, dating of peat ash and barley grains has revealed that humans had actually settled there somewhere between the 4th and 6th centuries AD.
The Faroes were the first stepping stone beyond Shetland for the dispersal of European people across the North Atlantic. The findings therefore allow speculation as to whether Iceland, Greenland, and even North America were colonised earlier than previously thought....
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