I’ve earlier discussed how Diamond was mistaken about Easter Island in “Collapse”. Now it appears that the Greenland Norse actually did eat fish and so were not as culturally inflexible as he claimed. Hat tip to Gene Callahan. I was suspicious regarding just that in my post on the book.
April 26, 2009
Entitled to an Opinion 
April 28, 2009 at 12:37 am
My friend Bugg wrote a whole thesis on the Greenlanders that cleared the issue up completely, but he doesn’t have email and never talks to anybody so it will have to remain a mystery.
April 28, 2009 at 5:54 pm
Have you talked about Bugg before? My memory is fuzzy. And how do you know about his thesis?
May 28, 2016 at 10:42 am
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