How far into the Americas did the Vikings travel?
Given sane priors, shouldn't one always assume that they penetrated farther into the continent by some amount than the recovered artifacts indicate?<p>1) for any single artifact X, the chance that X is found at the innermost point that vikings reached is low, given the large number of artifacts they would have generated<p>2) the exact number of discoverable artifacts is unknown, and the majority of this number must be undiscovered so far<p>Archeologists' failure to think this way has always baffled me. Bayesian archeology should be a thing