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Wrong! Jared Diamond you are WRONG!

Started by Cain, January 16, 2013, 02:38:32 PM

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Cain

January 16, 2013, 02:38:32 PM
 :argh!:

http://www.spiegel.de/international/zeitgeist/archaeologists-uncover-clues-to-why-vikings-abandoned-greenland-a-876626.html#spRedirectedFrom=www&referrrer=http://t.co/1Xj9KbkB

QuoteFor years, researchers have puzzled over why Viking descendents abandoned Greenland in the late 15th century. But archaeologists now believe that economic and identity issues, rather than starvation and disease, drove them back to their ancestral homes.

TL;DR they didn't like eating seals all day, every day.

Nephew Twiddleton

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January 16, 2013, 02:53:44 PM
Quote from: Cain on January 16, 2013, 02:38:32 PM
:argh!:

http://www.spiegel.de/international/zeitgeist/archaeologists-uncover-clues-to-why-vikings-abandoned-greenland-a-876626.html#spRedirectedFrom=www&referrrer=http://t.co/1Xj9KbkB

QuoteFor years, researchers have puzzled over why Viking descendents abandoned Greenland in the late 15th century. But archaeologists now believe that economic and identity issues, rather than starvation and disease, drove them back to their ancestral homes.

TL;DR they didn't like eating seals all day, every day.

As opposed to the seals that Icelanders eat?
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January 16, 2013, 03:31:17 PM
 :lulz: So basically, living there was shitty and they didn't  like it, so they moved.
"I'm guessing it was January 2007, a meeting in Bethesda, we got a bag of bees and just started smashing them on the desk," Charles Wick said. "It was very complicated."

Cain

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January 16, 2013, 06:15:41 PM
No they were all WIPED OUT because they CUT DOWN ALL THE TREES.

Mesozoic Mister Nigel

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January 17, 2013, 04:42:32 AM
Quote from: Cain on January 16, 2013, 06:15:41 PM
No they were all WIPED OUT because they CUT DOWN ALL THE TREES.

:lulz:
"I'm guessing it was January 2007, a meeting in Bethesda, we got a bag of bees and just started smashing them on the desk," Charles Wick said. "It was very complicated."

Sano

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January 17, 2013, 09:15:32 PM
I think the question shouldn't be why they left but why they put up with it for 500 years.  :lulz:
Everything comes to an end, reader. It is an old truism to which may be added that not everything that lasts, lasts for long. This latter part is not readily admitted; on the contrary the idea that an air castle lasts longer than the very air of which it is made is hard to get out of a person's head, and this is fortunate, otherwise the custom of making those almost eternal constructions might be lost.
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