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

Authors :
Buckland, P.C.
Amorosi, T.
Barlow, L.K.
Dugmore, A.J.
Mayewski, P.A.
McGovern, T.H.
Ogilvie, A.E.J.
Sadler, J.P.
Skidmore, P.
Source :
Antiquity. March 1996, Vol. 70 Issue 267, p88, 9 p.
Publication Year :
1996

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 - [...]

Details

Language :
English
ISSN :
0003598X
Volume :
70
Issue :
267
Database :
Gale General OneFile
Journal :
Antiquity
Publication Type :
Academic Journal
Accession number :
edsgcl.18299481