Greenland and the Ice Age

The Vikings left greenland sometime in the late fourteenth century, but no one is uite sure why. Theories have always been greatly debated, poor use of the land, plague, even pirates. But a study from columbia university analyzed boulders in the area to see if they could tell us if the glaciers on greenland advanced or retreated in those times. Results showed the glaciers didn't seem to move or melt much at all during the viking times. So then the climate stayed relatively the same. There'd be no big shift. Tove pushed them out, right? And another study seemed to confirm those findings after analyzing the mud of lakes near those original settlements. The

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