THE VIKINGS WHO VANISHED FROM GREENLAND
Their later economy was not frozen in the habits of the first settlers.
The relationship between Norse and Inuit communities also deserves a more careful treatment than the old image of two enemies facing one another across a battlefield.
Contact between neighboring societies can include many forms at once.
There can be exchange in one place and competition in another.
Individuals can meet peacefully while communities elsewhere experience conflict.
Archaeology rarely preserves the emotional tone of such encounters.
What it can show is the distribution of technologies, animal remains, settlement patterns and objects, which can then be compared with written accounts and oral traditions.
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