Veranderingen in een 17de eeuws grafveld op Spitsbergen door dooiende permafrost

• Published in: Paleo-aktueel
• Main Authors: Loonen, Maarten, Bosscher, Femke, Vastenhoud, Han, Zanting, Lotte, van Bodegom, Rosanne, Steenhuisen, Frits, Dresscher, Sarah, Rooke, Wouter, de Vries, Koos
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: Dutch
• Published: Groninger Instituut voor Archeologie 2019
• Subjects: Norway; Ytre Norskøya; permafrost; Spitsbergen
• Online Access: http://rjh.ub.rug.nl/Paleo-aktueel/article/view/36003; https://doi.org/10.21827/PA.30.119-126

17th-century whaler graves on Spitsbergen threatened by melting permafrost. Deterioration of the permafrost due to climate change could endanger the conservation status of 17th-century whaler clothing in an old burial ground on Ytre Norskøya, off the coast of the island of Spitsbergen (Norway). In 1...