Climate change and the Viking-age fjord environment of the Eastern Settlement, South Greenland

Abstract

The main objective of the project reported here is to reconstruct late Holocene hydrographic changes in South Greenland fjords and to study the relationship with large-scale atmospheric climate change; in particular to shed light on a possible link between these hydrographic changes and the disappearance of the Norse from Greenland more than five centuries ago. The project (1998–2000) is financially supported by the Danish Natural Science Research Council and the Government of Greenland.