Sinking temps may have forced them out, says study
(NEWSER) - We’re far from the first humans to grapple with climate change: It seems several populations were forced to leave Greenland when things got too cold for comfort, according to a new study. The Saqqaq people arrived in Greenland some 4,500 years ago, and were gone when weather cooled in 850 BC. But the cold temperatures suited Greenland’s next inhabitants just fine: the Inuits. But they quit the island, too, about 2,000 years ago, perhaps because of a climate shift. Then came the Vikings, who arrived around 980 AD. More»
