essay
Holocene climatic changes in Greenland
paleo-eskimo cultures of greenland : a new perspective in greenlandic archaeology : papers from a symposium at the institute of archaeology and ethnology, university of copenhagen, may 21-24, 1992 • (1) • Published In 1996 • Pages: 243-251
By: Fredskild, Bent.
Abstract
In this article Fredskild summarizes the different botanical indications of Holocene climatic change in Greenland, using as his primary tool pollen and macrofossil analysis of lake sediments and peat.Although the interpretation of the data may be considered by some as somewhat ambiguous, the general trend in climatic change, supported by ice cap cores, '…is clear, in West Greenland the temperature reached that of today c. 8000 conv. 14 C years B.P. to peak some millenia later. In North Greenland the temperature increase came a little later. Around 4000 B.P. the temperature began to decrease and with fluctuations it gradually became colder until the Little Ice Age a few centuries ago. In East Greenland both the increase and decrease were around a millenium earlier. In the central West Greenland the sea-temperature was essentially higher during the Mid-holocene' (p. 243).
- HRAF PubDate
- 2000
- Region
- North America
- Sub Region
- Arctic and Subarctic
- Document Type
- essay
- Evaluation
- Creator Type
- Archaeologist
- Document Rating
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- Analyst
- John Beierle; 1998
- Field Date
- no date
- Coverage Date
- ca. 4300 BP-3200 BP
- Coverage Place
- Greenland
- Notes
- Bent Fredskild
- Includes bibliographical references (see document 7:Anonymous)
- LCSH
- Arctic regions--Antiquities