The later silence tells us that the documentary connection with Europe became extremely weak.

But silence should not be turned into a precise death date.

Written history and archaeological chronology operate differently.

The absence of documents can mean absence of communication, not necessarily absence of people.

The same caution applies to the idea that all Greenland Norse suddenly became victims of starvation.

Archaeological evidence does not support a single island-wide famine that killed everyone at once.

People were still making choices, hunting, maintaining farms and living in different regions at different times.