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Presentation at Historic Cemetery Preservation Workshop on November 18, 2011 in Lowell

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Slide01On Friday Kathryn Catlin is going to present some of our geophysical cemetery work at  the Historic Cemetery Preservation Workshop in Lowell. You can learn more about the workshop at: http://ncptt.nps.gov/2011/historic-cemetery-preservation-workshop-lowell-ma/ and http://www.mass.gov/dcr/stewardship/histland/histland.htm If you want to look at some of the cool 3D animations she is going to present, you can download the powerpoint presentation (over 100 MB) You can also see the handout which explains some of the concepts and methods used in geophysical work on Cemeteries.  The presentation uses our work at Old Burial Hill in Marblehead, The Great Friends Meeting house in Newport, as well as our work in Iceland and Greenland.

John Steinberg

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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