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    Exposure: Understanding Living in Extreme Environments. Context

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    This document discusses how studying past landscapes and land management practices can provide insights into how societies lived sustainably in extreme environments. It focuses on the Viking settlers who lived over 1000 years ago in Greenland's grassy hills and fields near ice-filled fjords. By examining soils from fields in old Norse settlements scientifically, forensic evidence can be found about how the land was managed and how practices changed over time in response to climate change and societal changes in Greenland and elsewhere.

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    This document discusses how studying past landscapes and land management practices can provide insights into how societies lived sustainably in extreme environments. It focuses on the Viking settlers who lived over 1000 years ago in Greenland's grassy hills and fields near ice-filled fjords. By examining soils from fields in old Norse settlements scientifically, forensic evidence can be found about how the land was managed and how practices changed over time in response to climate change and societal changes in Greenland and elsewhere.

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    This document discusses how studying past landscapes and land management practices can provide insights into how societies lived sustainably in extreme environments. It focuses on the Viking settlers who lived over 1000 years ago in Greenland's grassy hills and fields near ice-filled fjords. By examining soils from fields in old Norse settlements scientifically, forensic evidence can be found about how the land was managed and how practices changed over time in response to climate change and societal changes in Greenland and elsewhere.

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    This document discusses how studying past landscapes and land management practices can provide insights into how societies lived sustainably in extreme environments. It focuses on the Viking settlers who lived over 1000 years ago in Greenland's grassy hills and fields near ice-filled fjords. By examining soils from fields in old Norse settlements scientifically, forensic evidence can be found about how the land was managed and how practices changed over time in response to climate change and societal changes in Greenland and elsewhere.

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    Exposure:

    understanding living in
    extreme environments.

    Context
    The study of past landscapes…
    …can inform us about the way
    people lived their lives and
    responded to change.
    …can inform us about the way
    people lived their lives and
    responded to change.
    By looking at the past we may
    find…
    …ways in which we can
    understand the sustainability
    of our own societies.
    …ways in which we can
    understand the sustainability
    of our own societies.
    Farming and land management
    are essential to sustain
    societies…
    …to grow crops and raise
    animals…
    ..and to do this over many
    years requires careful use of
    resources.
    ..and to do this over many
    years requires careful use of
    resources.
    Southern Greenland has an
    environment that shows great
    seasonal extremes…
    …with cold winters and a short
    summer period…
    …presenting challenges for
    people who live there.
    …presenting challenges for
    people who live there.
    In places, surrounding the ice-
    filled fjords…
    …are grassy hills and fields…
    …and it is to these areas that
    Viking settlers came over
    1000 years ago.
    …and it is to these areas that
    Viking settlers came over
    1000 years ago.
    Written records…
    …about Viking settlers and the
    Norse Colony in Greenland…
    …are scanty…
    …so to understand how these
    settlers managed the
    landscape…
    …scientific methods are
    employed.
    …scientific methods are
    employed.
    Understanding the influence
    of land management
    requires…
    …the type, intensity and
    frequency of the practice to
    be considered…
    By examing both the rangeland
    and the areas within ancient
    settlements…
    …such as here at the site of
    Brattahli! the first Viking
    farm on Greenland…
    …we can understand the
    sustainability of the Norse
    colony…
    …by examining the soil.
    …by examining the soil.
    Samples of soils from fields in
    the old Norse settlements…
    can be examined for forensic
    evidence of past land-use…
    …with samples taken from the
    field to the laboratory for
    microscopic evaluation.
    …with samples taken from the
    field to the laboratory for
    microscopic evaluation.
    The results can inform us
    about how the land was
    managed…
    …and how people changed their
    practices over time in response
    to changing climate…
    and to changes in society both
    in Greenland and elsewhere.

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