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"It’s a Bloom!"—Recollections on Martin Frobisher, Kodlunarn Island, and the Meta Incognita Project (2020)
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This is an abstract from the session entitled "Comparative Perspectives on European Colonization in the Americas: Papers in Honor of Réginald Auger" , at the 2020 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. The 1861 discovery by Charles Francis Hall of Elizabethan relics on Kodlunarn (White Man) Island in the outer reaches of Frobisher Bay, southeast Baffin Island, and a peculiar Viking-age radiocarbon date on one of Hall’s iron blooms, set in motion a multi-year international...