CH-0002 · RESEARCH DRAFT
Indigenous occupation before Norse activity
L’Anse aux Meadows preserves Indigenous histories thousands of years older than the Norse site, including successive archaeological traditions and ancestors of the Beothuk.
Not publication-ready. Several successive peoples used this site. This is not a Beothuk territorial founding date.
- Historical place
- Northern Newfoundland
- Present-day context
- Northern Newfoundland — navigation aid, not historical jurisdiction
- Peoples named in this record
- Maritime Archaic peoples, Groswater and Dorset traditions, Beothuk ancestors
- Review state
- source supported draft — source-supported draft is not independent verification
- Catalogue updated
- 2026-10-11
- French text
- Translation pending; English research text shown.
Map context
No territorial polygon or coordinate is asserted in v1. Modern location labels are orientation aids, not historical boundaries.
No dated political snapshot is available for this event. No historical boundary is inferred.
Source evidence
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L’Anse aux Meadows management plan 2019
Parks Canada · institutional history · Review: search excerpt
Recorded retrieval date: 2026-10-11. This date does not prove a complete document was reviewed.
Institutional interpretation is not automatically independent corroboration. Consult nation-authored histories and underlying records before editorial approval.
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Indigenous Sites, L’Anse aux Meadows
Parks Canada · · Review: page opened
Recorded retrieval date: 2026-10-12. This date does not prove a complete document was reviewed.