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

• Autores: Paul C. Buckland, T. Amorosi, L. K. Barlow, Andrew J. Dugmore, Paul A. Mayewski, Thomas H. McGovern, A. E. J. Ogilvie, J. P. Sadler, P. Skidmore
• Localización: Antiquity, ISSN 0003-598X, Vol. 70, Nº 267, 1996, págs. 88-96
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • 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.