Re: Little Ice Age, Plains natives, and other topics (was: Questi

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In article <3gr91u$jvd@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu>,
Thomas Kavanagh <TKAVANAG@indiana.edu> wrote:
>kmk2@Lehigh.EDU wrote:
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>> please forgive my ignorance, but im not sure what you're referring to as the
>> little ice age ? pleas tell...
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>> kevin
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>
>The so-called Little Ice Age was a period of increased cold/wet
>which began ca. 1500 and ended ca. 1850. Remember all those
>Dutch paintings of people ice scating whihc they can't do any more
>(and not because of the floods), its because the weather had done
>a mini-flip. In North America, on the plains, the weather was

Did Viking settlements in Greenland (and sea travel in the north
Atlantic) get affected by the Little Ice Age ?

-arun gupta

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