Svalbard whalers show scurvy and extreme labor stress in “corpse point” cemetery

Climate change is rapidly erasing evidence from one of the Arctic’s largest early modern whaling cemeteries, where archaeologists have uncovered signs of harsh labor, poor nutrition, and declining health among the men who worked Europe’s northern whale fisheries. The burial ground, known as Likneset, or “Corpse Point,” lies on the Svalbard archipelago between mainland Norway […]