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The Coring Team Takes a Field Trip

July 9, 2009 by Kathryn Catlin | 0 comments

The coring team has been hard at work for the past few days!  We finished taking soil cores all over Pafastaðir, and today we began work on a farm mound at Kjartansstaðir.  We’ve been tiptoeing through the þufurs and wrestling with extreme dandelions.  On Monday we took a hike through field, bog, and stream to take a look at the tephra sequence on the abandoned farm at Melkot.

After a week I’m really starting to get hang of intepreting soil cores!


Fording a stream at Melkot


Beautiful tephra sequence at Melkot


John really gets into tephra.

Author: Kathryn Catlin

Kathryn Catlin is an alumna of UMass Boston's Historical Archaeology MA program and a current PhD student in Anthropology at Northwestern University. Kathryn's research interests include the use of archaeological survey and analytical technologies such as GIS to describe relationships between the development of social inequality and the causes and consequences of environmental change. She has participated in numerous Fiske Center projects, including seasons in Iceland, Greenland, and across New England.

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