Early Greenlanders Enjoyed a Varied Diet A team of researchers affiliated with several insтιтutions in Denmark and Greenland, working with another colleague from Australia, has found that early humans living in Greenland ate a much more varied diet than previously believed. The study is published in Nature Human Behavior. Scientists studying the history of Greenland …

Why Did the Vikings Leave Greenland? One of the great mysteries of late medieval history is why did the Norse, who had established successful settlements in southern Greenland in 985, abandon them in the early 15th century? The consensus view has long been that colder temperatures, ᴀssociated with the Little Ice Age, helped make the …