https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals ... C660DC3753
For hundreds of years, the Inuit and, for a short period of time, the Norse called Greenland home. However, during the Little Ice Age, a period in which the North Atlantic experienced much colder and drier conditions, the Norse culture disappeared.
Many researchers have theorized on the reason for the Norse disappearance in Greenland, attributing it to grazing-induced land degradation leading to poor pasture and less winter fodder, increased sea ice making trade, travel, and marine resources harder to come by, and an increase in violent and frequent storms ending official passage to Norway. However, the role that children's toys may have played in the adaptability of these cultures has not been explored.
So here you are, spot the difference as related to cultural adaptation to environmental change
Inuit toys from the collection of the National Museum of Greenland in Nuuk. a: sledge runner and upstander (wood), b: disc for spinning top (wood), c: doll (wood), d: sealing stool (for sitting on when hunting seals on the ice (bone), e: harpoon (baleen), f: cooking pot (soapstone), g: lamp with ledge (soapstone), h: ajagaq (bone), i: snow knife (wood), j: ulo blade (women's knife; slate), k: harpoon head (bone).
Norse toys. a: bird figure (wood; redrawn after Berglund, Reference Berglund2020: 112); b: toy sword (wood; redrawn after Vebæk, Reference Vebæk1993: 36); c: doll (steatite; redrawn after Roussell, Reference Roussell1941: 265); d: cooking pot (soapstone; redrawn after Berglund, Reference Berglund2020: 112); e: knife (wood; redrawn after Berglund Reference Berglund2020: 113); f: disc for spinning top (whale bone, redrawn after photograph on the Archive of the National Museum of Denmark in Copenhagen); g: ship stem post (wood; redrawn after Roussell, Reference Roussell1936: 100); h: fish figure (wood; redrawn after Berglund, Reference Berglund2020: 113); i: bowl (soapstone; redrawn after Nørlund, Reference Nørlund1930: 156). Not to scale.
