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that over the last 10,000 years, there have been only three or four Miyake events. One event was in A.D. 774 to 775, another in 992 to 993, and another one circa 660 BCE.
If the settlement dates from 1021 AD, this makes it the earliest known presence of Europeans in the Americas, beating Christopher Columbus by almost 500 years. It is also the earliest evidence that the Atlantic Ocean had been crossed. Dr. Dee In 1021, the L'Anse aux Meadows site would have been covered by forests that could be used for building both boats and houses, and used for smelting iron. The area would have been full of game, including caribou, fish, seal, whale, and walrus, and lots of animals that could be used for their fur, such as wolf, fox, bear, lynx, and marten.
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