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Ground Penetrating Radar (GPR) at Hassanamesit Woods and Plymouth has begun

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We have started the work at the two sites for Fiske Center UMass Boston Archaeological field schools. The grids have been laid out and GPR survey has begun.  We will get you some results as soon as we get them.

Author: John Steinberg

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.

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  1. I am looking forward to following you on fb and seeing what redware and other ceramics you find!

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