Just before winter set in (first week in December) , we completed the final Ground Penetrating Radar survey of the year at the Durant-Kenrick house.
The data has not yet been processed but the initial results look promising.
John Steinberg
Kathryn "Kat" Catlin and Christiane Campbell, UMass Boston Historical Archaeology graduate students, use the Måla 400 MHz GPR antenna.
Dr. John Steinberg has been a Research Scientist at the Fiske Center since 2006. He received his PhD in Anthropology from UCLA in 1997. Before coming to UMass Boston, John taught at UCLA and California State University Northridge. He is interested in the economic problems of colonization, both in New England and across the North Atlantic. He uses GIS and shallow geophysics to study settlement patterns to understand broad trends over the landscape. In addition to John's New England work, he has been studying the settlement patterns of Viking Age Iceland. John is the director of the Digital Archaeology Laboratory at the Fiske Center.
