Re: Clams before Columbus

In sci.archaeology message
news:ds10gt$mpp$1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx by "t(nospam)kavanagh"
<"tkavanag"@(nospam)indiana.edu> . . . :

Alan Crozier wrote:

In my review of Nielsen/Scott on the Kensington Rune Stone I
criticized the absence of references for certain claims. One of
the claims concerned clams. I asked "Where are the clams from
Klagen [Skagen?] in north Jutland that must have come with
ships from New England in the 13th and 14th centuries?"

Richard Nielsen has now kindly provided an Internet source with
a reference to something published in Nature 1992:
http://www.science-frontiers.com/sf085/sf085a01.htm

(I note that my suspicion was right about the correct form of
the place-name: it is indeed Skagen/the Skaw at the northern
tip of Jutland. See
http://www.vulkaner.no/t/skagen/skagen1-n.html)

Come on folks, we went thru this before, thanks to Yuri, back in
1998:

I had been meaning to make a page on all of this for sci.arch.aux but
have not had the time. However I agree, this is the silliest of the
silly, along the lines of kettles, and norse-portugues mustangs
brought by the vikings.
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