Chris Campbell and Kathryn Catlin, grad students at UMass Boston, with Sarah Schofield of Salve, begin the work of setting up the grid for the archaeogeophysics that will take place on Thursday & Friday.
The Friends Meeting house, parts of which date to 1699, is the oldest religious structure in Newport.
– John Steinberg
Location:Newport, RI
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.
