Panorama photo of Burial Hill
Geophysics will be part of the field school at Plymouth. We plan to do some GPR and conductivity at Burial Hill during the first weeks of the field season. Brian Damiata and I will be running the survey for the first few weeks of the field school. You can see some of Brian’s work at Sylmar, Santa Monica, and Crows Landing. Not only will students learn about collecting the data, but they will also learn how to analyze it with GPR Slice software.
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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.
