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Excavations at the site, between 2003 and 2005, have uncovered its 98 longhouses, a palisade of three rows (a fence made of heavy wooden stakes and used for defense) and about 200,000 artifacts. Dozens of examples of art have been unearthed showing haunting human faces and depictions of animals, with analysis ongoing.
Originally posted by thepupils
Looks like a Viking hall.
Most likely a scandanavian settlement. Very cool, if so this really crushes the "Columbus discovered America"
Nonsense once and for all.
S&F
Originally posted by SLAYER69
reply to post by thepupils
I dunno about that. When my Children were in school they were taught about the Vikings, The Chinese and possibly a few others "Discovering America" many many moons before Columbus. Not to mention those who were already here for thousands of years while it was being rediscovered over and over again...
The Great Lakes region (Ontario), for its part, was the domain of the Algonquian and Iroquoian. Among the Iroquoian peoples were the Huron, the Iroquois, the Petun, and the Neutral. The Huron or Wyandot ("the island people"), as they called themselves, lived at the very southeast tip of Lake Huron, and at the north/south crossroads of the trading networks that criss-crossed native North America. They occupied a territory of some 2,300 square kilometres, a region once known as Huronia. The Huron traded agricultural products for wild game. Being mainly sedentary, the Iroquoian peoples appear to have had a more structured social organization than the Algonquian.
Originally posted by AdamsMurmur
It's worth noting though that this is about the time that the Natives were decimated by small pox and so on by contact with Europeans, which were already immune to the disease
Originally posted by mwood
Originally posted by thepupils
Looks like a Viking hall.
Most likely a scandanavian settlement. Very cool, if so this really crushes the "Columbus discovered America"
Nonsense once and for all.
S&F
not at all that would only prove Columbus discovered Canada....
Who says he crossed the border?
The axe was European. Wrought-iron was unknown here in the 1500s. Yet the tool was buried, deliberately, within the ancient palisades nearly a century before Europeans first made contact with the Huron-Wendat.
it’s deduced Basque fishermen left the axe in a whaling hut in the early 16th century when they returned home during winter. Iroquois of the St. Lawrence who travelled in the area may have picked it up as trading material. The piece was paddled deep into Ontario and eventually it was swapped into the Mantle site
Within two decades of the Huron-Wendat’s first encounter with a European — a mighty nation of about 40,000 was decimated by killer diseases carried by settlers, such as small pox and influenza.
Originally posted by thepupils
Looks like a Viking hall.
Most likely a scandanavian settlement. Very cool, if so this really crushes the "Columbus discovered America"
Nonsense once and for all.
Originally posted by thepupils
Looks like a Viking hall.
Most likely a scandanavian settlement. Very cool, if so this really crushes the "Columbus discovered America"
Nonsense once and for all.
S&F