Early Settlement (IMAGE)

Columbia Climate School

Early Settlement

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The bed of this lake on the island of Eysturoy contains a sediment layer laid down around 500 AD that documents the first arrival of sheep, and thus humans, on the archipelago.

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Raymond Bradley/UMass Amherst

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