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Over-Hunting Walruses Likely Forced Vikings to Abandon Greenland

Over-Hunting Walruses Likely Forced Vikings to Abandon Greenland
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Scientists have struggled to understand why, after hundreds of years, Vikings suddenly abandoned their Greenland colony. New research suggests their economic over-reliance on walrus tusks—a valuable but dwindling trade commodity—had a lot to do with it.

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