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Norse Greenland Farms and The Loss of Organic Preservation: No More Wood, Textiles, or Bones (2017)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Konrad Smiarowski. Michael Nielsen. Christian Madsen.

This presentation is an attempt to illustrate the scale of climate induced loss of organic preservation at Norse/Viking farmsteads in the Eastern Settlement of Southwest Greenland. For over a century now Norse Greenland has been associated with well preserved sites, where wooden artifacts, bones and even textiles have been recovered. Archaeological investigations at sites that previously reported excellent preservation conditions suggest that recent climatic changes have had a wide and severe...