The Vikings landed in what is now Newfoundland, Canada around the year A.D. 1000. So why didn't they colonize the region like ...

The Thule Inuit people and Norse both hunted walrus in the High Arctic in the 13th century, according to a new study.

New studies show Norse Vikings and Arctic Native Americans (or Indigenous peoples) traded walrus ivory in Greenland.

Now, a study published in the journal Science Advances has indicated that walrus ivory imported into Europe from Norse settlements in Greenland was harvested from very remote High Arctic hunting ...

Here’s how it works. A dogged search for walrus ivory may have brought two unlikely cultures together — the Thule Inuits of the Arctic and the Norse of Greenland — hundreds of years before ...

Ultimately, the combination of limited interest, conflict with Indigenous groups, and logistical hurdles led the Vikings to forgo colonising North America. Their brief forays into the region serve as ...

The Norse were trading walrus tusks in medieval Europe that have now been traced to the very top of Greenland – well beyond the reach traditionally associated with this seafaring civilization.

discovering that the Norse and Arctic Indigenous peoples likely interacted and exchanged walrus ivory in the far northern regions of Greenland, centuries before Christopher Columbus arrived in the ...

The Vikings were part of a global network trading in ivory from Greenland. ScienceDaily . Retrieved October 17, 2024 from www.sciencedaily.com / releases / 2024 / 09 / 240930122949.htm ...

Vikings played a significant role in the global walrus ivory trade, traveling long distances and interacting with Arctic ...

this drove the Norse expansion into the north Atlantic to Iceland and then Greenland; as they looked for new sources of ivory. "What really surprised us was that much of the walrus ivory exported ...