Cultural adaptation, compounding vulnerabilities and conjunctures in Norse Greenland

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 109, Issue 10, 2012, Pages 3658-3663

  Dugmore, Andrew J ^a   McGovern, Thomas H ^b   Vésteinsson, Orri ^c   Arneborg, Jette ^d   Streeter, Richard ^a   Keller, Christian ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ICELAND   (Iceland)

^d National Museum   (Denmark)

^e UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

Author keywords

Little Ice Age; Marine mammals; Rigidity trap; Vikings

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; CLIMATE CHANGE; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; ECOLOGY; GEOGRAPHIC ELEVATION; GREENLAND; HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOCIAL ADAPTATION; TEMPERATURE ACCLIMATIZATION;

ANIMALS; CLIMATE; CLIMATE CHANGE; CULTURE; DISASTERS; ENVIRONMENT; GEOGRAPHY; GREENLAND; HISTORY, ANCIENT; HUMANS; MAMMALS; RESIDENCE CHARACTERISTICS;

MAMMALIA;

EID: 84857941966     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1115292109     Document Type: Article

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