Jette Arneborg

Biographic Data

ID3590139
NAMEJette Arneborg
GIVEN NAMESJette
FAMILY NAMEArneborg
SIGNATUREARNEBORG J
AFFILIATIONSNational Museum of Denmark
ORCID0000-0003-2195-3727
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS29
TOTAL CITATIONS211
AUTHOR COUNT29
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1991
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2023
H-INDEX7

  • The Cambridge History of the Polar Regions

    Open AccessGeorge Angohiatok, Bryan Vandenbrink et al.BOOKThe Cambridge History of the…2023

    The Cambridge History of the Polar Regions is a landmark collection drawing together the history of the Arctic and Antarctica from the earliest times to the present. Structured as a series of thematic chapters, an international team of scholars offer a range of perspectives from environmental history, the history of science and exploration, cultural history, and the more traditional approaches of political, social, economic, and imperial history.…

  • Greenland: Approaches to Historical Norse Archaeology

    Open AccessJette ArneborgCHAPTEREncyclopedia of Global Archaeology2020

  • Population genomics of the Viking world

    Open AccessAshot Margaryan, Daniel J Lawson et al.ARTICLENature2020

  • Dimensions of inequality. Comparing the North Atlantic and the US Southwest

    Open AccessOrri Vésteinsson, M Hegmon et al.ARTICLEJournal of Anthropological…2019Cited by: 14References: 36

  • Greenland: Approaches to Historical Norse Archaeology

    Open AccessJette ArneborgCHAPTEREncyclopedia Of Global Archaeology2018

  • Disequilibrium, Adaptation, and the Norse Settlement of Greenland

    Open AccessRowan Jackson, Jette Arneborg et al.ARTICLEHuman Ecology2018

    There is increasing evidence to suggest that arctic cultures and ecosystems have followed non-linear responses to climate change. Norse Scandinavian farmers introduced agriculture to sub-arctic Greenland in the late tenth century, creating synanthropic landscapes and utilising seasonally abundant marine and terrestrial resources. Using a niche-construction framework and data from recent survey work, studies of diet, and regional-scale climate pro…

  • Climate challenges, vulnerabilities, and food security

    Open AccessMargaret C Nelson, E Ingram et al.ARTICLEProceedings of the National…2016

    Significance Climate-induced disasters are impacting human well-being in ever-increasing ways. Disaster research and management recognize and emphasize the need to reduce vulnerabilities, although extant policy is not in line with this realization. This paper assesses the extent to which vulnerability to food shortage, as a result of social, demographic, and resource conditions at times of climatic challenge, correlates with subsequent declines i…

  • The ‘Burgundian’ hat from Herjolfsnes, Greenland: New discoveries, new dates

    Open AccessMichèle Hayeur Smith, Jette Arneborg et al.ARTICLEDanish Journal of Archaeology2015Cited by: 4References: 1

    In 1921, during Poul Nørlund’s excavation at the Norse farm Herjolfsnes, Greenland, a tall hat was recovered from the burial grounds surrounding the farm’s church, where a substantial collection of medieval garments had been recovered. This unusual hat came to symbolize not only the end of the Greenland Norse colony but also its enduring cultural links with continental European fashions, following a comment to this effect published by Nørlund him…

  • Was it for walrus? Viking Age settlement and medieval walrus ivory trade in Iceland and Greenland

    Karin Margarita Frei, Ashley N Coutu et al.ARTICLEWorld Archaeology2015Cited by: 42References: 27

    Walrus-tusk ivory and walrus-hide rope were highly desired goods in Viking Age north-west Europe. New finds of walrus bone and ivory in early Viking Age contexts in Iceland are concentrated in the south-west, and suggest extensive exploitation of nearby walrus for meat, hide and ivory during the first century of settlement. In Greenland, archaeofauna suggest a very different specialized long-distance hunting of the much larger walrus populations …

  • The genetic prehistory of the New World Arctic

    Open AccessMaanasa Raghavan, Michael Degiorgio et al.ARTICLEScience2014

    Arctic genetics comes in from the cold Despite a well-characterized archaeological record, the genetics of the people who inhabit the Arctic have been unexplored. Raghavan et al. sequenced ancient and modern genomes of individuals from the North American Arctic (see the Perspective by Park). Analyses of these genomes indicate that the Arctic was colonized 6000 years ago by a migration separate from the one that gave rise to other Native American …

  • Ancient DNA unravels the truth behind the controversial GUS Greenlandic Norse fur samples: The bison was a horse, and the muskox and bears were goats

    Open AccessM H S Sinding, Jette Arneborg et al.ARTICLEJournal of Archaeological Science2014Cited by: 2References: 3

  • The Peopling of the North Atlantic: Isotopic Results from Greenland

    Open AccessT D Price, Jette ArneborgARTICLEJournal of the North Atlantic2014References: 21

    This discussion of the isotopic analyses of human samples from Greenland begins with a review of the colonization of the island and a description of the sites and the samples that were collected for analysis. In addition, a brief consideration of the geology and bioavailable 87Sr/86Sr is provided. The analysis of the human data from Greenland follows an introduction to the variation present and observable differences between the Eastern and Weste…

  • In the Footsteps of Vebæk Vatnahverfi Studies 2005-2011

    Open AccessJette Arneborg, Thomas H Mcgovern et al.ARTICLEJournal of the North Atlantic2014

  • Cultural adaptation, compounding vulnerabilities and conjunctures in Norse Greenland

    Open AccessAndrew J Dugmore, Andrew Dugmore et al.ARTICLEProceedings of the National…2012

    Norse Greenland has been seen as a classic case of maladaptation by an inflexible temperate zone society extending into the arctic and collapse driven by climate change. This paper, however, recognizes the successful arctic adaptation achieved in Norse Greenland and argues that, although climate change had impacts, the end of Norse settlement can only be truly understood as a complex socioenvironmental system that includes local and interregional…

  • Greenland climate change: From the past to the future

    Open AccessValérie Masson‐delmotte, Didier Swingedouw et al.ARTICLEWiley Interdisciplinary Reviews…2012Cited by: 2References: 27

    Climate archives available from deep sea and marine shelf sediments, glaciers, lakes, and ice cores in and around Greenland allow us to place the current trends in regional climate, ice sheet dynamics, and land surface changes in a broader perspective. We show that, during the last decade (2000s), atmospheric and sea surface temperatures are reaching levels last encountered millennia ago, when northern high latitude summer insolation was higher d…

  • Norse Greenland Dietary Economy ca. AD 980-ca. AD 1450: Introduction

    Open AccessJette Arneborg, Niels Lynnerup et al.ARTICLEJournal of the North Atlantic2012Cited by: 7References: 23

    An initial study of the 13 C values for human bone collagen of 27 Norse Greenlanders in the late 1990s suggested a change in the Norse diet from predominantly terrestrial to predominantly marine food. This shift may well indicate a change in diet; the question left open by the limited initial isotope study was, however, whether the change in diet was a reflection of altered subsistence strategies or altered farming practices. Furthermore, the fir…

  • Human Diet and Subsistence Patterns in Norse Greenland AD C.980—AD c. 1450: Archaeological interpretations

    Open AccessJette Arneborg, Niels Lynnerup et al.ARTICLEJournal of the North Atlantic2012Cited by: 12References: 26

    In this concluding paper of the JONA special volume on the Norse Greenland isotope study, we summarize the archaeological interpretations of the previous, technical papers. The study supports the conclusions and widens the results of our earlier limited study, i.e., that the diet of the Norse Greenlanders became more dependent on marine resources over time. The isotope data provide information at the level of the individual, and the study indicat…

  • Stable Carbon and Nitrogen Isotopic Measurements of the Wild Animals Hunted by the Norse and the Neo-Eskimo People of Greenland

    Open AccessD E Nelson, Jeppe Møhl et al.ARTICLEJournal of the North Atlantic2012Cited by: 5References: 10

    Isotopic measurements of the terrestrial and marine wild animal species of greatest importance to Greenlandic Norse and Neo-Eskimo people were obtained to provide a solid basis for undertaking isotopic dietary analyses of these two human groups. The samples studied were animal bones from archaeological excavations of Norse and Neo-Eskimo middens. As expected, the values for the terrestrial and marine species were found to have characteristic isot…

  • Isotopic Analyses of The Domestic Animals of Norse Greenland

    Open AccessD E Nelson, Jan Heinemeier et al.ARTICLEJournal of the North Atlantic2012Cited by: 4References: 15

    To provide a basis for the isotopic dietary study of the Greenland Norse, and as an interesting study in itself, measures of the stable carbon (δ13C) and nitrogen (δ15N) isotope ratios were obtained for 118 samples of archaeological bone from 6 species of the Norse domestic animals. These samples were obtained from museum faunal collections representing archaeological excavations of 10 Norse sites, five in each of the two Norse settlements in Gre…

  • A First Isotopic Dietary Study of the Greenlandic Thule Culture

    Open AccessD E Nelson, Niels Lynnerup et al.ARTICLEJournal of the North Atlantic2012Cited by: 4References: 5

    The isotopic dietary method has been applied to samples of some 65 Thule Culture individuals from existing archaeological collections of Greenlandic human skeletal material. The aim was to use the Greenlandic Thule Culture as a test of the isotopic method, in that we know they were heavily dependent on marine resources, and should thus provide a direct measure of the isotopic values for humans consuming almost entirely marine protein. The sites f…

  • An Isotopic Analysis of the Diet of the Greenland Norse

    Open AccessD E Nelson, Jan Heinemeier et al.ARTICLEJournal of the North Atlantic2012Cited by: 4References: 45

    Our understanding of the Norse dietary adaptations to their Greenlandic home comes primarily from sparse historical records, from what is known of the Norse dietary economy in other North Atlantic lands, and from zooarchaeological examinations of the animal bones found in the various excavations of Norse Greenlandic sites which have taken place over the past century. To obtain more detailed information on the diets of the Norse settlers in Greenl…

  • The "Dairy Farm" of the Hvalsey Fjord Farm

    Open AccessJette Arneborg, Fuuja Larsen et al.ARTICLEJournal of the North Atlantic2009References: 1

    Based on his archaeological investigations in 1935 at the Hvalsey Fjord farm and church (ruin group Ø83) and at the neighbouring ruins (ruin group Ø83a), the Danish architect Aage Roussell linked the two sites together, stating that the Ø83a buildings had functioned as a subsidiary “dairy farm” to the main farm at Hvalsey (Ø83). Excavations in 2004 showed that the buildings at Ø83a had been in use for a short period only, and artifacts found in 1…

  • Seals and Sea Ice in Medieval Greenland

    Open AccessA E J Ogilvie, James Woollett et al.ARTICLEJournal of the North Atlantic2009Cited by: 7References: 37

    Multidisciplinary approaches are used to examine possible changes in North Atlantic sea-ice cover, in the context of seal hunting, during the period of the Norse occupation of Greenland (ca. 985–1500). Information from Iceland is also used in order to amplify and illuminate the situation in Greenland. Data are drawn mainly from zooarchaeological analyses, but written records of climate and sea-ice variations, as well as paleoclimatic data sets ar…

  • The Farm Beneath the Sand' - an archaeological case study on ancient 'dirt' DNA

    Open AccessMartin B Hebsgaard, T Gilbert et al.ARTICLEAntiquity2009Cited by: 11References: 25

    It is probable that 'The Farm Beneath the Sand' will come to stand for a revolution in archaeological investigation. The authors show that a core of soil from an open field can provide a narrative of grazing animals, human occupation and their departure, just using DNA and AMS dating. In this case the conventional archaeological remains were nearby, and the sequence obtained by the old methods of digging and faunal analysis correlated well with t…

  • The Norse in Greenland and late Holocene sea-level change

    Open AccessNaja Mikkelsen, Antoon Kuijpers et al.ARTICLEPolar Record2008Cited by: 2References: 28

    Norse immigrants from Europe settled in southern Greenland in around AD 985 and managed to create a farming community during the Medieval Warm Period. The Norse vanished after approximately 500 years of existence in Greenland leaving no documentary evidence concerning why their culture foundered. The flooding of fertile grassland caused by late Holocene sea-level changes may be one of the factors that affected the Norse community. Holocene sea-le…