Disequilibrium, adaptation, and the Norse settlement of Greenland
This research was supported by the University of Edinburgh ExEDE Doctoral Training Studentship and NSF grant numbers 1202692 and 1140106. There is increasing evidence to suggest that arctic cultures and ecosystems have followed non-linear responses to climate change. Norse Scandinavian farmers intro...
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ftstandrewserep:oai:research-repository.st-andrews.ac.uk:10023/16036 2023-07-02T03:31:20+02:00 Disequilibrium, adaptation, and the Norse settlement of Greenland Jackson, Rowan Arneborg, Jette Dugmore, Andrew Madsen, Christian McGovern, Tom Smiarowski, Konrad Streeter, Richard University of St Andrews. Bell-Edwards Geographic Data Institute University of St Andrews. School of Geography & Sustainable Development 2018-09-17T12:30:08Z 20 application/pdf http://hdl.handle.net/10023/16036 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10745-018-0020-0 eng eng Human Ecology Jackson , R , Arneborg , J , Dugmore , A , Madsen , C , McGovern , T , Smiarowski , K & Streeter , R 2018 , ' Disequilibrium, adaptation, and the Norse settlement of Greenland ' , Human Ecology , vol. 46 , no. 5 , pp. 665-684 . https://doi.org/10.1007/s10745-018-0020-0 0300-7839 PURE: 255747975 PURE UUID: 52a27170-1541-44e1-abd4-360712e9f852 Scopus: 85053548584 WOS: 000446483500005 ORCID: /0000-0003-2261-4540/work/64697932 http://hdl.handle.net/10023/16036 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10745-018-0020-0 © The Author(s) 2018. Open Access. This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. Greenland Norse Niche construction Culture Climate Disequilibrium GF Human ecology. Anthropogeography 3rd-DAS SDG 13 - Climate Action SDG 14 - Life Below Water SDG 15 - Life on Land GF Journal article 2018 ftstandrewserep https://doi.org/10.1007/s10745-018-0020-0 2023-06-13T18:31:19Z This research was supported by the University of Edinburgh ExEDE Doctoral Training Studentship and NSF grant numbers 1202692 and 1140106. There is increasing evidence to suggest that arctic cultures and ecosystems have followed non-linear responses to climate change. Norse Scandinavian farmers introduced agriculture to sub-arctic Greenland in the late tenth century, creating synanthropic landscapes and utilising seasonally abundant marine and terrestrial resources. Using a niche-construction framework and data from recent survey work, studies of diet, and regional-scale climate proxies we examine the potential mismatch between this imported agricultural niche and the constraints of the environment from the tenth to the fifteenth centuries. We argue that landscape modification conformed the Norse to a Scandinavian style of agriculture throughout settlement, structuring and limiting the efficacy of seasonal hunting strategies. Recent climate data provide evidence of sustained cooling from the mid thirteenth century and climate variation from the early fifteenth century. Archaeological evidence suggests that the Norse made incremental adjustments to the changing sub-arctic environment, but were limited by cultural adaptations made in past environments. Publisher PDF Peer reviewed Article in Journal/Newspaper Arctic Climate change Greenland University of St Andrews: Digital Research Repository Arctic Greenland Human Ecology 46 5 665 684 |
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This research was supported by the University of Edinburgh ExEDE Doctoral Training Studentship and NSF grant numbers 1202692 and 1140106. There is increasing evidence to suggest that arctic cultures and ecosystems have followed non-linear responses to climate change. Norse Scandinavian farmers introduced agriculture to sub-arctic Greenland in the late tenth century, creating synanthropic landscapes and utilising seasonally abundant marine and terrestrial resources. Using a niche-construction framework and data from recent survey work, studies of diet, and regional-scale climate proxies we examine the potential mismatch between this imported agricultural niche and the constraints of the environment from the tenth to the fifteenth centuries. We argue that landscape modification conformed the Norse to a Scandinavian style of agriculture throughout settlement, structuring and limiting the efficacy of seasonal hunting strategies. Recent climate data provide evidence of sustained cooling from the mid thirteenth century and climate variation from the early fifteenth century. Archaeological evidence suggests that the Norse made incremental adjustments to the changing sub-arctic environment, but were limited by cultural adaptations made in past environments. Publisher PDF Peer reviewed |
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Human Ecology Jackson , R , Arneborg , J , Dugmore , A , Madsen , C , McGovern , T , Smiarowski , K & Streeter , R 2018 , ' Disequilibrium, adaptation, and the Norse settlement of Greenland ' , Human Ecology , vol. 46 , no. 5 , pp. 665-684 . https://doi.org/10.1007/s10745-018-0020-0 0300-7839 PURE: 255747975 PURE UUID: 52a27170-1541-44e1-abd4-360712e9f852 Scopus: 85053548584 WOS: 000446483500005 ORCID: /0000-0003-2261-4540/work/64697932 http://hdl.handle.net/10023/16036 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10745-018-0020-0 |
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