Student Resources:

• Field opportunities in archaeology & ethnography
• Internships in anthropology
• Professional organizations in archaeology & anthropology
• Jobs & Careers in anthropology
• Cultural Resource Management (Contract Archaeology
• Museums
• Repatriation & NAGPRA

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Norse and Native American Contact:

• L'Anse aux Meadows National Historic Site - Parks Canada
• Discoverers' Web:  The Vikings - Links to many Viking-related web sites of varying interest and credibility
• Leif’s Legacy - Allan Lynch, Imperial Oil Ltd.
• The Nortse in Vinland - Library and Archives Canada
• Norse Settlers in Greenland - Greenland Guide & Project Leif 2000
• Severed Ways:  The Norse Discovery of America - a film of historical fiction, released in 2009

A famous Viking explorer returned home from a voyage and found his name missing from the town register.  His wife insisted on complaining to the local civic official who apologized profusely saying, "I must have taken Leif off my census."

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Dating Techniques:

• Chronological Methods - George H. Michaels and Brian M. Fagan, University of California

Seriation:

• Stratigraphy and Seriation - About, Inc.

Radiocarbon Dating

• Beta Analytic, Inc. - "The world's largest professional radiocarbon dating service"
• Geochron Laboratories - Radiocarbon facility in Cambridge, MA
• Oxford University Research Laboratory for Archaeology and the History of Art
• Radiocarbon Corrections and the Peopling of the Americas - Mammoth Trumpet article, 1997
• Radiocarbon Dating at Zurich University - another major laboratory
• Radiocarbon Dating Home Page - Geological Survey of Canada
• Radiocarbon Home Page - from the journal Radiocarbon, with abstracts of published articles
• Radiocarbon Web Info - Radiocarbon Laboratory, University of Waikato, New Zealand
• Rafter Radiocarbon Laboratory - Institute of Geological & Nuclear Sciences, New Zealand
• Of Time and the Coral... - Science Frontiers summary regarding C14 calibration with coral data

Dendrochronology

• Dendrogeomorphology Laboratory - University of Western Ontario
• Laboratory of Tree-Ring Research - University of Arizona
• Tree-Ring Laboratory of Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory - Columbia University
• Tree Rings and People:  An International Conference... - Davos, Switzerland, September 2001
• Ultimate Tree-Ring Web Pages - Henri D. Grissino-Mayer, University of Tennessee
• University of Victoria Tree-Ring Laborabory

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