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Published online 1 August 2002 | Nature | doi:10.1038/news020729-8
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Analysis of pigmentary materials on the Vinland Map and Tartar Relation by Raman microprobe spectroscopy
Debate over oldest map of America flares again.
Scientists are locking horns over a Viking map of America. One group has new evidence that the document is a fake, another that it harks from half a century before Columbus' trip to the New World1,2.
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