2024
DOI: 10.1177/09596836231225718
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The impact of volcanism on Scandinavian climate and human societies during the Holocene: Insights into the Fimbulwinter eruptions (536/540 AD)

Frank Arthur,
Kailin Hatlestad,
Karl-Johan Lindholm
et al.

Abstract: Recent paleoclimatic research has revealed that volcanic events around 536–540 AD caused severe, short-term global cooling. For this same period, archeological research from various regions evidences significant cultural transformation. However, there is still a lack of understanding of how human societies responded and adapted to extreme climate variability and new circumstances. This study focuses on the effects of the 536/540 AD volcanic event in four Scandinavian regions by exploring the shift in demograph… Show more

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“…Subsequently these changes are supplemented by a modest arrival of eastern ancestry associated with Slavic populations, who migrated into areas south of the Baltic Sea formerly settled by East Germanic speakers, and noted as a component in Scandinavian samples after 1200 BP. In the period directly following the volcanic activity (1414 and 1411 BP) and the Justinian Plague (1409 BP), Scandinavia saw a population decline that did not fully recover until around 1300 BP (Supplementary Note S7) 85 . Linguistically, this period is one of central importance to Northern Europe.…”
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confidence: 99%
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“…Subsequently these changes are supplemented by a modest arrival of eastern ancestry associated with Slavic populations, who migrated into areas south of the Baltic Sea formerly settled by East Germanic speakers, and noted as a component in Scandinavian samples after 1200 BP. In the period directly following the volcanic activity (1414 and 1411 BP) and the Justinian Plague (1409 BP), Scandinavia saw a population decline that did not fully recover until around 1300 BP (Supplementary Note S7) 85 . Linguistically, this period is one of central importance to Northern Europe.…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…In the period directly following the volcanic activity (1414 and 1411 BP) and the Justinian Plague (1409 BP), Scandinavia saw a population decline that did not fully recover until around 1300 BP (Supplementary Note S7) 85 . Linguistically, this period is one of central importance to Northern Europe.…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 99%