<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><xml><records><record><source-app name="Biblio" version="6.x">Drupal-Biblio</source-app><ref-type>47</ref-type><contributors><authors><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Birgitta Wallace</style></author></authors></contributors><titles><title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">L'ANSE AUX MEADOWS AND VINLAND: AN ABANDONED EXPERIMENT</style></title></titles><dates><year><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">1996</style></year></dates><pub-location><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Halifax</style></pub-location><language><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">eng</style></language><abstract><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">The pattern of Norse migration to Greenland, and from there to L'Anse aux Meadows in Newfoundland, corresponds to David Anthony's model for migration. L'Anse aux Meadows fits into Anthony's initial 'scout' phase, with its widely dispersed 'island' settlements located in areas to be exploited and governed from a core area. The structure and composition of the Norse settlement at L'Anse aux Meadows show that it was a highly specialized gateway settlement at the entrance to Vinland, established for the exploitation of resources to be shipped back to Greenland. The description of Leifsbú_ir, 'Leif's camp,' in the Vinland Sagas indicates that it, too, was a gateway settlement. In fact, the two sites are probably one and the same. L'Anse aux Meadows failed as a viable economic station and never developed beyond this initial phase of migration. The Vinland experiment was abandoned after only a few years.</style></abstract></record></records></xml>