Posted on 05/30/2011 1:12:10 PM PDT by decimon
Greenland's early Viking settlers were subjected to rapidly changing climate. Temperatures plunged several degrees in a span of decades, according to research from Brown University. A reconstruction of 5,600 years of climate history from lakes near the Norse settlement in western Greenland also shows how climate affected the Dorset and Saqqaq cultures. Results appear in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
PROVIDENCE, R.I. [Brown University] — The end of the Norse settlements on Greenland likely will remain shrouded in mystery. While there is scant written evidence of the colony’s demise in the 14th and early 15th centuries, archaeological remains can fill some of the blanks, but not all.
What climate scientists have been able to ascertain is that an extended cold snap, called the Little Ice Age, gripped Greenland beginning in the 1400s. This has been cited as a major cause of the Norse’s disappearance. Now researchers led by Brown University show the climate turned colder in an earlier span of several decades, setting in motion the end of the Greenland Norse. Their findings appear in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
The Brown scientists’ finding comes from the first reconstruction of 5,600 years of climate history from two lakes in Kangerlussuaq, near the Norse “Western Settlement.” Unlike ice cores taken from the Greenland ice sheet hundreds of miles inland, the new lake core measurements reflect air temperatures where the Vikings lived, as well as those experienced by the Saqqaq and the Dorset, Stone Age cultures that preceded them.
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January 10, 2011
By Didi
A new study suggests that some Icelanders may be direct descendants of a Native American woman. If this is true, then the Vikings in fact had substantive contact with Native Americans, an unestablished hypothesis until now, and were the first people to bring a Native American to Europe.
The Vikings settled Iceland in the 9th century, and it is now a country of a little fewer than 300,000 people. Since that time, the Icelandic gene pool has remained largely homogenous as a result of long-term isolation. That, combined with Iceland’s meticulous record keeping of its people’s genealogy, makes studying and verifying Icelanders’ genetic make-up an alluring draw to researchers interested in genetic studies.
One such researcher recently published a study in the American Journal of Physical Anthropology, analyzing the DNA of Icelanders to determine that “a mysterious . . . . DNA sequence (that we name the C1e lineage). . . , carried by more than 80 Icelanders, can be traced through the female line to four ancestors born in Iceland around 1700. There is good reason to believe that the C1e lineage arrived in Iceland several hundreds of years before 1700.”
The C1e lineage can be found in both Native Americans and East Asian populations. However, it is more than likely that the C1e lineage found in Icelanders is linked to Native Americans and that this link was created as far back as the year 1000 A.D. when the Vikings settled in Newfoundland.
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Hånky pånky.
Ancient Greenland Mystery Has A Simple Answer, It Seems
Christian Science Monitor | 11-29-2007 | Colin Woodward
Posted on 11/29/2007 10:26:32 AM PST by blam
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LOL...YUP
Maybe a little Hokey Pokey too.
Høkey Pøkey.
Maybe Hokey, but no Pokey?...
No doubt those wimpy Vikings took their cue from all the starving Eskimos....
No no no, it isn’t your wife’s alarm clock that brings the sun. It is my cat! He meows for breakfast and voila! he brings the daylight.
We shall see - its unplugged so y’all can sleep in tomorrow! ;-)
The Saqqaq, mentioned in the article, their man’s closest living relatives are the Chukchis, people who live at the easternmost tip of Siberia.
It’s interesting. I ran across something just today about how Eric the Red gave Greenland it’s name as a clever marketing ploy. That it really wasn’t a green land but he wanted people to move there to build the population, so he named it Greenland to make people think it was a nice place.
Now, it happens that I remember this little “fact” from before all the AGW BS got started. But this study confirms the theory I came up with to resolve the marketing theory with what we now know.
I think historians couldn’t figure out why people migrated to what they could only see as a barren, cold place that Greenland is today so they worked out a pretty good explanation with the “marketing” thing. All the pieces seem to fit. In truth, back then they just had no way of knowing that Greenland had actually been green back in Eric’s day.
But here’s the twist, NOW AGW nuts point to the “marketing” scam as absolute proof that that Greenland was never warm. Getting liberals to acknowledge this factual study will be like.... well... getting libtards to acknowledge any truth.
Temperatures in the fifties aren’t bad if they are accompanied with some sunshine, but that isn’t the case.
Dont Do it, you fool. You will send us all back to the DARK AGES!
At least these guys admit there was a Little Ice Age, which implies a warm period preceded it. That's better than the Mann/Hansen posse.
Well, according to #41 youse guys showed up in Iceland and helped the population there after leaving Greeenland.
;)
Slightly off topic ...
We're already on our way. Its called muslim appeasement. Look around you. Why are we in this hand basket and where are we going?
At least if my theory is correct we can sleep in. ;-)
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