Re: Ancient Greenland mystery has a simple answer, it seems:Thingsgot colder and they left.

Inger E wrote:
"Matt Giwer" <jull43@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> skrev i meddelandet
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Jack Linthicum wrote:
"During the same time period, a lot of Norse settlements in Iceland
and northern Norway were being abandoned, but nobody writes big books
about that," Niels Lynnerup, a forensic anthropologist at the
University of Copenhagen in Denmark who studies the Norse says. "I'm
not sure that the Norse saw Greenland as being very different from the
fjords they came from in Norway, and leaving it was no more stressful
than abandoning a hamlet in Norway." His theory: In the 1300s and
1400s, Greenland's youths voted with their feet, leaving until the
colony could no longer support itself. The last few left.
...
http://www.csmonitor.com/2007/1128/p13s01-stgn.html
I read that too. And my first thought was HUH!?!!? All my 62 years that is
the
only reason I ever heard. I was not paying attention when it became a
mystery.
The reason was always because the climate got colder. I am shocked I
missed not
knowing that the reason has been known at least all my life.

Science writer syndrome strikes again.

First of all the notes re. Northern Norway might be a bit too hasty. That
said Greenland wasn't abondoned due to the climate, nor did the young ones
move to Iceland, Ireland, England or Scandinavia. Most of them moved to NA
especially to places where they could hunt whales. What's incredible is that
so many scholars missed that the Norse in Greenland were better skilled
hunting whales than the Inuits and that this can be proven from for example
artifacts found by the Pfaff-voyage studies.
(A copy of that can be found here in Gothenburg but not in the expected
archives... Good photos and ref to where the artifact is to be found)

What do the 'Pfaff-voyage studies' say, specifically relevant to the issue of the relative skills of Inuit vs. Greenlander Europeans? Be very, very specific.

More in my manuscript.

When will we see this prodigy?

I suspect that as long as you can use the threat of your manuscript as a way of avoiding giving decent references, it will never see the light of day.

But please, prove me wrong. I've gotten old waiting for it so far.
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