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SCI476 - How Climate Change Wrote History: Vikings

Historical Research

Books, eBooks, and recommended journal and magazine articles.

Why Did Greenland’s Vikings Vanish? (Smithsonian)

The Fate of Greenland: Lessons from Abrupt Climate Change by Philip W. Conkling; Richard Alley; Wallace S. Broecker; George H. Denton
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The Vikings: a very short introduction by Julian D. Richards
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Climate Research

Dugmore, Andrew J., Christian Keller, and Thomas H. McGovern. "Norse Greenland Settlement: Reflections on Climate Change, Trade, and the Contrasting Fates or Human Settlements in the North Atlantic Islands." Arctic Anthropology 44, no. 1 (2007): 12-36.
Elling, Henrik. "ICE AGE: Conquered the Vikings." Science Illustrated Nov 2012: 38-43
Hunt, B. G. "Natural Climatic Variability and the Norse Settlements in Greenland." Climatic Change 97.3-4 (2009): 389-407.
Kuijpers, Antoon, and Naja Mikkelsen. "Geological Records of Changes in Wind Regime Over South Greenland since the Medieval Warm Period: A Tentative Reconstruction." The Polar Record 45.1 (2009): 1-8.
N. E. Young, A. D. Schweinsberg, J. P. Briner, J. M. Schaefer, Glacier maxima in Baffin Bay during the Medieval Warm Period coeval with Norse settlement. Sci. Adv. 1, e1500806 (2015).

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