That alleged contact is not undisputed, Tiz.
L'Anse Aux Meadows is like the first spot of land you see sailing from Greenland. The red dot on the map.
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They could have seen anyone on the Labrador or Quebec coasts, too. Who knows?
Quote:The first inhabitants of Newfoundland were the Paleo-Eskimo who have no known link to other groups in Newfoundland history. Little is known about them beyond archeological evidence of early settlements. Evidence of successive cultures have been found. The Late Paleo-Eskimo, or Dorset culture, settled there about 4,000 years ago. They were descendants of migrations of ancient prehistoric peoples across the High Arctic thousands of years ago, after crossing from Siberia via the Bering land bridge. The Dorset died off or abandoned the island prior to the arrival of the Norse.
After this period, the Beothuk settled Newfoundland, migrating from Labrador on the mainland. There is no evidence that the Beothuk inhabited the island prior to Norse settlement. Scholars believe that the Beothuk are related closely to the Innu of Labrador. The tribe later became extinct although people of partial Beothuk descent have been documented. The name Beothuk means "people" in their own language which is a member of the Algonquian language family which itself is common to many Atlantic coastal tribes.
From a Wiki page on Newfoundland.
L'Anse Aux Meadows is like the first spot of land you see sailing from Greenland. The red dot on the map.
They could have seen anyone on the Labrador or Quebec coasts, too. Who knows?
