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David Landon to talk on Archaeology Partnerships for 2020 at Plimoth Plantation tonight

October 23, 2014 by John Steinberg | 0 comments

David Landon excavating on Burial Hill in PLymouth in 2014

David Landon excavating on Burial Hill in Plymouth in 2014

Professor David Landon from UMass Boston’s Fiske Center for Archaeology will discuss the collaborative partnership between the Fiske Center and Plimoth Plantation as we count down to the 2020 anniversary.  How does Plymouth fit into the context of Atlantic history? What new light can be shed using 21st-century archaeological techniques? Professor Landon will discuss results of the 2014 field season along School Street and the ongoing search for Plymouth’s original fortifications on Burial Hill

When Thursday, October 23, 2014, 7 – 8pm
Where Plimoth Plantation
Category Indoors, Talks and Lectures
Cost Free, Open to All

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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