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.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
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).
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Climate
- Flora
- Laboratory analysis of materials other than dating methods in archaeology
- traditionCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Eastern Arctic Small Tool
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 2000
- RegionThe area the document pertains to
- North America
- Sub RegionThe more specific area the document pertains to, which is located within the Region
- Arctic and Subarctic
- Document TypeMay include journal articles, essays, collections of essays, monographs, or chapters/parts of monographs
- essay
- Evaluation
- Creator TypeThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Archaeologist
- Document Rating A ranking done by HRAF anthropologists based on the strength of the source material on a scale of 1 to 5, as follows: 1 - poor; 2 - fair; 3 - good, useful data, but not uniformly excellent; 4 - excellent secondary data; 5 - excellent primary data.
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- John Beierle; 1998
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- no date
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- ca. 4300 BP-3200 BP
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Greenland
- NotesAdditional notes
- Bent Fredskild
- Includes bibliographical references (see document 7:Anonymous)
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Arctic regions--Antiquities