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Alt. Hist. request, Vikings make a go of the "New World"?
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RE: Alt. Hist. request, Vikings make a go of the "New World"?
(May 1, 2018 at 3:01 pm)Tizheruk Wrote: Tech that allowed us to live in one of the harshest places on earth .


Quote:Traditional technology was based on locally available materials, principally bone, horn, antler, ivory, stone and animal skins. In some areas people used grass or baleen (the material used by whales to strain krill and plankton) for basketry and other containers. They also substituted wood or copper for antler or bone, and bird or possibly fish skins for animal skins. Many Inuit inventions are considered technological masterpieces for their resourcefulness and strength of design, like the igloo, the toggling harpoon head and the .
http://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en...le-arctic/
Why on earth would the norse want an igloo or a kayak...additionally, are we imagining that they couldn't produce their own snowholes and skinboats if they wanted to slum it?  

Not knocking the inuits, or doubting their resourcefulness...but superior tools required for the main activities the norse were engaged in, in greenland..were all in the possession of the norse.
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RE: Alt. Hist. request, Vikings make a go of the "New World"? - by The Grand Nudger - May 1, 2018 at 3:16 pm



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