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Science 4 March 2005:
Vol. 307. no. 5714, pp. 1413 - 1414
DOI: 10.1126/science.1103089
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HISTORY:
A Saga of Wormholes and Anatase

A review by William W. Fitzhugh

Maps, Myths, and Men The Story of the Vinland Map
by Kirsten A. Seaver
Stanford University Press, Palo Alto, CA, 2004. 504 pp. $65, £44.50. ISBN 0-8047-4962-0. Paper, $24.95, £17.50. ISBN: 0-8047-4963-9.

Besides reviewing the controversies surrounding the map and arguing that it is a modern fake, the author discusses our current understanding of medieval Norse culture and voyages to North America.
The reviewer is at Arctic Studies Center, Department of Anthropology, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC 20560-0112, USA. E-mail: fitzhugh.william{at}nmnh.si.edu

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Father Josef Fischer, S.J.
Kirsten A. Seaver
Science Online, 24 May 2005 [Full text]

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