At the edge: High Arctic Walrus hunters during the Little Ice Age
A multi-disciplinary study of settlement in north-east Greenland found that life in this High Arctic zone was actually favoured by the climate brought in by the Little Ice Age (fifteenth–nineteenth century). Extensive ice cover meant high mobility, and the rare polynyas — small patches of permanentl...
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crcambridgeupr:10.1017/s0003598x00068423 2024-09-15T18:04:17+00:00 At the edge: High Arctic Walrus hunters during the Little Ice Age Grønnow, Bjarne Gulløv, Hans Christian Jakobsen, Bjarne Holm Gotfredsen, Anne Birgitte Kauffmann, Laura Hauch Kroon, Aart Pedersen, Jørn Bjarke Torp Sørensen, Mikkel 2011 http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0003598x00068423 https://www.cambridge.org/core/services/aop-cambridge-core/content/view/S0003598X00068423 en eng Cambridge University Press (CUP) https://www.cambridge.org/core/terms Antiquity volume 85, issue 329, page 960-977 ISSN 0003-598X 1745-1744 journal-article 2011 crcambridgeupr https://doi.org/10.1017/s0003598x00068423 2024-07-31T04:01:54Z A multi-disciplinary study of settlement in north-east Greenland found that life in this High Arctic zone was actually favoured by the climate brought in by the Little Ice Age (fifteenth–nineteenth century). Extensive ice cover meant high mobility, and the rare polynyas — small patches of permanently open coastal water — provided destinations, like oases, where huge numbers of migrating marine mammals and birds congregated. One such place was Walrus Island on Sirius Water, a veritable processing plant for walrus, where every spring Thule people stocked up meat supplies that would get the rest of the region through the winter. It was a further drop in the temperature in the mid nineteenth century that led to the region being abandoned. Article in Journal/Newspaper East Greenland Greenland Thule walrus* Cambridge University Press Antiquity 85 329 960 977 |
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A multi-disciplinary study of settlement in north-east Greenland found that life in this High Arctic zone was actually favoured by the climate brought in by the Little Ice Age (fifteenth–nineteenth century). Extensive ice cover meant high mobility, and the rare polynyas — small patches of permanently open coastal water — provided destinations, like oases, where huge numbers of migrating marine mammals and birds congregated. One such place was Walrus Island on Sirius Water, a veritable processing plant for walrus, where every spring Thule people stocked up meat supplies that would get the rest of the region through the winter. It was a further drop in the temperature in the mid nineteenth century that led to the region being abandoned. |
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Grønnow, Bjarne Gulløv, Hans Christian Jakobsen, Bjarne Holm Gotfredsen, Anne Birgitte Kauffmann, Laura Hauch Kroon, Aart Pedersen, Jørn Bjarke Torp Sørensen, Mikkel |
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Grønnow, Bjarne Gulløv, Hans Christian Jakobsen, Bjarne Holm Gotfredsen, Anne Birgitte Kauffmann, Laura Hauch Kroon, Aart Pedersen, Jørn Bjarke Torp Sørensen, Mikkel At the edge: High Arctic Walrus hunters during the Little Ice Age |
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At the edge: High Arctic Walrus hunters during the Little Ice Age |
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