Bioarchaeological and climatological evidence for the fate of Norse farmers in medieval Greenland

P. C. Buckland; T. Amorosi; L. K. Barlow; A. J. Dugmore; P. A. Mayewski; T. H. McGovern; A. E.J. Ogilvie; J. P. Sadler; P. Skidmore

doi:10.1017/S0003598X00082910

Bioarchaeological and climatological evidence for the fate of Norse farmers in medieval Greenland

P. C. Buckland^*
, T. Amorosi
, L. K. Barlow
, A. J. Dugmore
, P. A. Mayewski
, T. H. McGovern
, A. E.J. Ogilvie
, J. P. Sadler
, P. Skidmore

^*Corresponding author for this work

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Abstract

Greenland, far north land of the Atlantic, has often been beyond the limit of European farming settlement. One of its Norse settlements, colonized just before AD 1000, is - astonishingly - not even at the southern tip, but a way up the west coast, the 'Western Settlement'. Environmental studies show why its occupation came to an end within five centuries, leaving Greenland once more a place of Arctic-adapted hunters.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	88-96
Number of pages	9
Journal	Antiquity
Volume	70
Issue number	267
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1017/S0003598X00082910
Publication status	Published - 1 Jan 1996

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