Article about Kate’s work
Kate Johnson (who got her MA in historical Archaeology from UMass Boston) recently published paper in the Journal of Archaeological Science called Rediscovering the lost archaeological landscape of southern New England using airborne light detection and ranging (LiDAR). This paper was picked up first by National Geographic, then by Science, then by the Huffington Post, and then most recently by CT NPR. Kate gave us a preview of this paper a few months ago.
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.
