Re: Challenge for naysayers of the Kensington Runestone

In article <9nlpg1h8i3gpiad3afpdce3912pvt5f81p@xxxxxxx>,
nospam@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx () wrote:

> A centre of trade has to exist as a circle of distribution of trade
> goods of a type that might be transported to the centre of that
> circle

I have no problem with the idea of Norse iron work proving trade with
the Inuit. I do have a problem with using it as evidence of where the
Norse were trading. Other wise we would have evidence of Chinese
traders in Rome in the reign of Trajan, silk was there. The problem
with all goods is that there is generally no evidence of how many
middlemen were involved. Unless you are going to state that various
Inuit never traded with each other it does not prove much.

Ken Young
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