TY - JOUR
T1 - At the edge
T2 - High Arctic Walrus hunters during the Little Ice Age
AU - Grønnow, Bjarne
AU - Gulløv, Hans Christian
AU - Jakobsen, Bjarne Holm
AU - Gotfredsen, Anne Birgitte
AU - Kauffmann, Laura Hauch
AU - Kroon, Aart
AU - Pedersen, Jørn Bjarke Torp
AU - Sørensen, Mikkel
PY - 2011/9
Y1 - 2011/9
N2 - A multi-disciplinary study of settlement in north-east Greenland found that life in this High Arctic zone was actually favoured by the climate brought in by the Little Ice Age (fifteenth-nineteenth century). Extensive ice cover meant high mobility, and the rare polynyas - small patches of permanently open coastal water - provided destinations, like oases, where huge numbers of migrating marine mammals and birds congregated. One such place wasWalrus Island on SiriusWater, a veritable processing plant for walrus, where every spring Thule people stocked up meat supplies that would get the rest of the region through the winter. It was a further drop in the temperature in themid nineteenth century that led to the region being abandoned.
AB - A multi-disciplinary study of settlement in north-east Greenland found that life in this High Arctic zone was actually favoured by the climate brought in by the Little Ice Age (fifteenth-nineteenth century). Extensive ice cover meant high mobility, and the rare polynyas - small patches of permanently open coastal water - provided destinations, like oases, where huge numbers of migrating marine mammals and birds congregated. One such place wasWalrus Island on SiriusWater, a veritable processing plant for walrus, where every spring Thule people stocked up meat supplies that would get the rest of the region through the winter. It was a further drop in the temperature in themid nineteenth century that led to the region being abandoned.
U2 - 10.1017/S0003598X00068423
DO - 10.1017/S0003598X00068423
M3 - Journal article
SN - 0003-598X
VL - 85
SP - 960
EP - 977
JO - Antiquity
JF - Antiquity
IS - 329
ER -
