Biometry and climate change in Norse Greenland:The effect of climate on the size and shape of domestic mammals

• Main Author: Cussans, Julia E.M.
• Format: Book Part
• Language: English
• Published: Springer 2017
• Subjects: Biogeography; Bone growth; Goats; Nutrition; Sheep; Temperature; Gården; Greenland
• Online Access: https://pure.uhi.ac.uk/en/publications/c462f2bc-f1ba-4c0d-aee4-50ac4bcc9119; https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-024-1106-5_11; http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85044925920&partnerID=8YFLogxK; http://www.scopus.com/inward/citedby.url?scp=85044925920&partnerID=8YFLogxK

This paper examines the climatic deterioration occurring in the 14 th and 15 th Centuries towards the end of the Norse Settlement in Greenland and its possible effects on the size and shape of domestic mammal (sheep and goat) bones. A review of biogeographical and nutritional factors affecting the s...