Background
Anne Stine Moe was born and raised in Lillehammer, in Oppland county, Norway.
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Education
She studied archaeology at the University of Oslo in the 1950s.
Career
Her parents were attorney Eilif Moe (1889-1954) and Louise Augusta Bauck Lindeman (1886-1966). Between 1961 and 1968, Anne Stine Ingstad led an excavation of the settlement with an international team of archaeologists from Sweden, Iceland, Canada, United States. and Norway. The excavation revealed the remains of an early 11th century Norse settlement.
These remains included sod houses, a forge, cooking pits and boathouses.
The settlement is now a United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization World Heritage Site and a National Historic Site of Canada. In the 1970s, Anne Stine Ingstad worked on the textiles from the Kaupang and Oseberg excavation sites.
Achievements
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Foreign her efforts, in 1969 Anne Stine Ingstad was awarded an Honorary Doctorate by Memorial University of Newfoundland. In 1992 she was also awarded an Honorary Doctorate at the University of Bergen. She was a commander of the Order of Saint Olav and was made a member of the Norwegian Academy of Science. She appeared with her husband in the 1984 National Film Board of Canada documentary The Vinland Mystery.
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November 6, 1997 (aged 79)