In Episode 3, Rebecca talks to Rowan Jackson at the School of GeoSciences, University of Edinburgh about his work on how the Norse adapted their way of Scandinavian way of living to the harsh climate of Greenland. We talk about the hows and whys of these lifestyle choices, before discussing the successes and failures of the Vikings in Greenland. Moving on from this, we talk more generally about Rowan’s work on global change research and climate change archaeology.

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7,15 Value of archaeological record.

9,30 Why did the Norse move to the North Atlantic?

12,00 Pull to Greenland - walrus ivory & (relatively) mild climate

13,30 Population estimates & peak settlement in Greenland

16,00 Viking farming toolkit

18,00 Hunting strategies & adaptation strategies

19,00 Landscape learning

22,00 Greenland's short active season

26,45 TEK (Traditional Ecological Knowledge) & cultural landscapes in Greenland

29,00 Adaptive toolkit responds to changes in seal populations

30,45 Transposing children's learning landscapes, Viking v Thule - cultural transmission

34,00 Miniature objects - toys & material culture

37,30 Children in urban contexts

40,30 Hegemonic masculinities & identities in urban contexts

49,00 Climate changes in the 14th century & TEK becomes less relevant

52,00 Cultural path dependence leaves the Norse less able to react to these changes

54,00 Changing European demands and politics affect Greenland

56,00 Population changes impact the abilities of the Norse to get to those resources that they need

60,00 Norse adaptive capacity is pushed to the limit, beyond capacity?

65,00 Evidence for leaving? Or a bias in the record?

72,30 What's the most important thing you can tell me about this?

75,00 The hermeneutic cycle of interpretation and reinterpretation

77,45 What is Global Change Research? What is Archaeology's role in GCR?

80,00 Shifting baselines, e.g. cod fishing & contribution of archaeological research to reconstructing historical cod populations

82,00 Discrete archaeological examples of change/adaptation/collapse and the lessons we can learn from these examples for the future.

85,00 Adaptation, vulnerability, and social context.

87,30 Social Contract & working with local communities

90,30 Relationships between communities, museums as trusted spaces, and potential for archaeologists to engage via exhibitions.