Drought may have prompted the Vikings’ departure from Greenland

The reason why the Vikings left Greenland in the early 15th century remains unclear. The declining temperature during the Little Ice Age had been thought to be one of the important factors. However, new evidence suggests that increasingly dry conditions played a more important role in undermining th...

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Main Author: Zhao, Boyang
Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
Language:English
Published: Bibliothèque de l'Université de Genève 2023
Subjects:
Vikings
Greenland
Temperature
Drought
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Online Access:https://oap.unige.ch/journals/tsb/article/view/897
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spelling ftunivgeneveojs:oai:oai.oap.unige.ch:article/897 2023-06-11T04:12:01+02:00 Drought may have prompted the Vikings’ departure from Greenland Zhao, Boyang 2023-04-19 https://oap.unige.ch/journals/tsb/article/view/897 eng eng Bibliothèque de l'Université de Genève https://oap.unige.ch/journals/tsb/article/view/897/1088 https://oap.unige.ch/journals/tsb/article/view/897 Copyright (c) 2023 Boyang Zhao https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0 TheScienceBreaker; Vol. 9 No. 2 (2023): TheScienceBreaker 2571-9262 Vikings Greenland Temperature Drought 4 info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion 2023 ftunivgeneveojs 2023-04-23T23:46:58Z The reason why the Vikings left Greenland in the early 15th century remains unclear. The declining temperature during the Little Ice Age had been thought to be one of the important factors. However, new evidence suggests that increasingly dry conditions played a more important role in undermining the viability of the Norse Settlement than minor temperature changes. Article in Journal/Newspaper Greenland Open Access Publications (Université de Genève) Greenland
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Greenland
Temperature
Drought
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Greenland
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Drought may have prompted the Vikings’ departure from Greenland
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description The reason why the Vikings left Greenland in the early 15th century remains unclear. The declining temperature during the Little Ice Age had been thought to be one of the important factors. However, new evidence suggests that increasingly dry conditions played a more important role in undermining the viability of the Norse Settlement than minor temperature changes.
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author Zhao, Boyang
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title Drought may have prompted the Vikings’ departure from Greenland
title_short Drought may have prompted the Vikings’ departure from Greenland
title_full Drought may have prompted the Vikings’ departure from Greenland
title_fullStr Drought may have prompted the Vikings’ departure from Greenland
title_full_unstemmed Drought may have prompted the Vikings’ departure from Greenland
title_sort drought may have prompted the vikings’ departure from greenland
publisher Bibliothèque de l'Université de Genève
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url https://oap.unige.ch/journals/tsb/article/view/897
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op_source TheScienceBreaker; Vol. 9 No. 2 (2023): TheScienceBreaker
2571-9262
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