Norse and Aztecs · TURNING POINT ·
Scoop Lake sediment records (900–1400)
On the Norse and Aztecs map as “Scoop Lake — the lake-mud records”
900–1400 — Midge remains in the mud of Scoop Lake near Narsaq point to summers about 1.5 °C warmer than in the centuries around them (Lasher & Axford, 2019). At Lake 578 near a Norse farm, Zhao’s team found little temperature change but a drying trend that would have cut the hay.
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- Medieval Warm Period and Little Ice Age (chapter 1 of Norse and Aztecs)
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- Climate and Innovation: The Norse and the Aztecs, c. 790–1521
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