Anne Stine Ingstad (11 February 1918 – 6 November 1997) was a Norwegian

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who, along with her husband explorer

Helge Ingstad Helge Marcus Ingstad (30 December 1899 – 29 March 2001) was a Norwegian explorer. In 1960, after mapping some Norse settlements, Ingstad and his wife archaeologist Anne Stine Ingstad found remnants of a Viking settlement in L'Anse aux Meadow ...

, discovered the remains of a Norse settlement at

L'Anse aux Meadows L'Anse aux Meadows ( lit. Meadows Cove) is an archaeological site, first excavated in the 1960s, of a Norse settlement dating to approximately 1,000 years ago. The site is located on the northernmost tip of the island of Newfoundland in the Ca ...

in the

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in 1960.

Biography

Anne Stine Moe was born and raised in

Lillehammer Lillehammer () is a municipality in Innlandet county, Norway. It is located in the traditional district of Gudbrandsdal. The administrative centre of the municipality is the town of Lillehammer. Some of the more notable villages in the municip ...

, in

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county,

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. Her parents were attorney Eilif Moe (1889–1954) and Louise Augusta Bauck Lindeman (1886–1966). Ingstad was the sister of Norwegian art historian and pianist,

Ole Henrik Moe Ole Henrik Moe (11 January 1920 – 29 July 2013) was a Norwegian pianist, art historian and art critic. He was born in Lillehammer, and is the brother of archaeologist Anne Stine Ingstad. During World War II he was a member of the intelligen ...

(1920– 2013). She married Helge Ingstad in 1941, after which she became his scientific collaborator. She studied archaeology at the

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in the 1950s. She took a master's degree in Nordic archeology in 1960. From 1960 to 1961, she was curator at the Norwegian Forestry Museum at

Elverum is a municipality in Innlandet county, Norway. It is located in the traditional district of Østerdalen. The administrative centre of the municipality is the town of Elverum. Other settlements in the municipality include Heradsbygd, Sørsko ...

. Between 1961 and 1968, Helge Ingstad and Anne Stine Ingstad conducted research resulting in the discoverery of settlement traces at L'Anse aux Meadows on the island of Newfoundland. They led an excavation of the settlement with an international team of archaeologists from

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, Canada,

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and Norway. The excavation revealed the remains of an early 11th century Norse settlement. These remains included

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s, a

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, cooking pits and

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s. The settlement is now a

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and a

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. After she had become a state research fellow in 1977, Anne Stine Ingstad took up a new field of research, the processing of the textile finds from the

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and Oseberg excavation sites. Following her research, together with archaeologist Bjørn Myhre and Professor Arne Emil Christensen, she wrote the book ''Osebergdronningens grav'' (1992).

Honors

*In 1969, Anne Stine Ingstad was awarded an

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. *The Helge and Anne Stine Ingstad Building on the St. John's Campus of the

is named after her and her husband. *In 1992, she was also awarded an Honorary Doctorate at the

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. *She was a commander of the

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and was made a member of the

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from 1990. *She appeared with her husband in the 1984

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documentary ''The Vinland Mystery''.

Personal life

Anne Stine Ingstad died in November 1997 at the age of 79, leaving behind her 98-year-old husband Helge and their daughter Benedicte Ingstad, professor of medical anthropology at the

.Anne Stine Ingstad
"The textiles in the Oseberg ship"
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Bibliography

*Ingstad, Helge; Ingstad, Anne Stine (2001).
The Viking Discovery of America: The Excavation of a Norse Settlement in L'Anse Aux Meadows, Newfoundland
'. Checkmark Books. .

References

External links

L’Anse au Meadows National Historic Site of Canada
{{DEFAULTSORT:Ingstad, Anne Stine 1918 births 1997 deaths People from Lillehammer Norwegian archaeologists University of Oslo alumni Norwegian women archaeologists 20th-century archaeologists 20th-century women writers Recipients of the St. Olav's Medal Members of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters 20th-century Norwegian women Norwegian women curators