<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><xml><records><record><source-app name="Biblio" version="6.x">Drupal-Biblio</source-app><ref-type>47</ref-type><contributors><authors><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">MCGOVERN, Thomas</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Paul BUCKLAND</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Jon SADLER</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Lisa BARLOW</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Astrid OGILVIE</style></author></authors></contributors><titles><title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">INSTAAR TILL DEATH TAKES US OR THE WORLD END: MODELLING THE LAST DAYS OF THE NORSE WESTERN SETTLEMENT IN GREENLAND</style></title></titles><dates><year><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">1996</style></year></dates><pub-location><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Halifax</style></pub-location><language><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">eng</style></language><abstract><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">The end of the Norse settlement in Greenland has long been a classic mystery of northern archaeology. Over a century of archaeological and historical research has produced a wide range of explanations and speculative scenarios for the end of Scandinavian settlements. Excavation carried out in what was probably one parish of the smaller Western Settlement (in modern Nuuk District) since 1903 has built up patterns of animal bone and insect deposition and structural collapse that suggest an abrupt abandonment in the mid-14th century. Collectively the evidence suggests community-wide subsistence crisis in late winter or early spring, perhaps triggered by a series of cold summers documented by proxy climate records of the GISP2 ice core. The paper presents the current evidence for the final abandonment and a simulation model for possible subsistence collapse.</style></abstract></record></records></xml>