Moreau Maxwell (1918–1998), professor and curator of Anthropology at
Michigan State University, researched the site in his study of Baffin Island's prehistory, the findings of which were summarized in his publication
Prehistory of the Eastern Arctic (1985). The Helluland Archaeology Project was a research initiative at the Canadian Museum of Civilization (now the
Canadian Museum of History) to investigate the possibility of an extended Norse presence on Baffin Island, including possible trade with the indigenous
Dorset people. The project went on hiatus following
Patricia Sutherland's ouster from the museum in 2012. While the project was active, excavations led by Sutherland at Tanfield Valley found possible evidence of medieval
Norse textiles, metallurgy and other items of European-related technologies. Wooden artifacts from Dorset sites include specimens which bear a close resemblance to Norse artifacts from Greenland.
Pelts from
Eurasian rats were also discovered. However, the eight sod buildings and artifacts found in the 1960s at
L'Anse aux Meadows, located on the northern tip of
Newfoundland, remain the only confirmed Norse site in North America outside of those found in
Greenland. ==References==