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Skagafjörður Municipality announces the beginning of the SCASS project

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Skagafjörður Web page The  Municipality of Skagafjörður has a web page that announces the beginning of the Skagafjörður Chruch and Settlement Survey (SCASS).  It has a great drone picture of the cemetery at Keflavík.  The Skagafjörður Heritage Museum also has a web page for the project.

The direct links are:

http://www.skagafjordur.is/is/frettir/skagfirska-kirkju-og-byggdasogurannsoknin-komin-a-fullt

http://www.glaumbaer.is/is/safnid/frettir/bandariskur-styrkur-til-kirkju-og-byggdasogurannsokna-i-hegranesi

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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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