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The article explores the mystery of the disappearance of the Norse settlers in Greenland, who vanished from history after 1408. It challenges the conventional view that they died out due to...
The Vikings abandoned their largest settlement in Greenland in the 1400s, but not because of cold temperatures. A new study suggests that an extended drought made farming and grazing...
Learn how the Viking settlers vanished from Greenland in the 15th century after more than 400 years of living there. Explore the possible factors that contributed to their collapse, such as...
But by 1400, the settlement on the island's western coast had been abandoned, according to radiocarbon dates, and by 1450 the inhabitants in the Eastern Settlement on the island's southern tip were gone as well.
CNN — For years, researchers have sought to understand why Vikings abandoned one of their settlements in Greenland after centuries of success. While some experts have suggested that...
Why did the Vikings disappear from Greenland 400 years after settling there? New research led by Harvard University and Penn State using geologic and climate records found that sea-level rise likely contributed to the Viking’s disappearance from the island in the 15th century.
In the new study, Boyang Zhao, a paleoclimatologist at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, and colleagues analyzed mud from the bottom of a lake in southern Greenland for clues about the climate Norse settlers experienced during their time there, between about 985 and 1450 C.E.
A new study suggests that the Vikings left their Eastern Settlement on Greenland by the 15th century because of frequent flooding caused by glacier expansion. The study models how the...
New research suggests that the Norse colony in Greenland collapsed due to a decline in summer rains, not a drop in temperatures. The study analyzed sediment samples from a lake near an ancient farmstead and found no evidence of the Little Ice Age.
Learn about the Norse settlements in Greenland from the 10th to the 15th century CE, their subsistence strategies, society, and disappearance. See a map of the Eastern and Western Settlements and their locations.