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March 25th, 2022 
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European Nordic seafaring pirates and raiders, known as the Vikings, would come to Greenland to settle around 950 AD, but mysteriously the Greenland Vikings vanished with the onset of the Little Ice Age, which lasted from the early 14th century to the mid-19th century. A new study by a group of scientists from University of Massachusetts Amherst (UMass) and other institutions, published in Sciences Advances, suggests that it was, in fact, a prolonged drought that led to the rapid disappearance of the Greenland Vikings.
Scientists at Smith College and the University at Buffalo also contributed to this research, which was supported by the National Science Foundation, UMass, the Geological Society of America, and the Swiss National Science Foundation, according to the press release from UMass.
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