The onset of this period caused Norse settlers in Greenland first to move away from a pastoral-based farming system then to abandon communities on the island altogether around 1450. For 10 points each:
[10e] Name this period that followed the end of the Medieval Warm Period.
ANSWER: Little Ice Age [or LIA]
[10h] Eroded teeth due to a nutrient-poor diet caused by the Little Ice Age were observed on some of the eight total mummies excavated from this Greenlandic site, which include a six month-old child likely buried alive after his mother died from a skull tumor.
ANSWER: Qilakitsoq [or Killekitok]
[10m] Historians like L. K. Barlow used the sudden demise of this settlement to compare climate resilience between the Norse and Thule natives. Bishop Ívar Bárðarson recorded the desolation of its largest site, Sandnes, up to a century before the larger Eastern Settlement to its south.
ANSWER: Western Settlement [or West Settlement]
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