How a walrus ‘resource curse’ might partly explain the Norse disappearance from Greenland
Norse hunters may have unsustainably hunted the marine mammals to compensate for the collapsing prices of ivory in Europe.
A historical mystery has been given a modern ring after new research has suggested that the sudden disappearance of the Norse from Greenland in the 15th century can partly be explained by their own unsustainable economic activity during a time of climatic change.
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