The College of Advancing and Professional Studies (CAPS) has put out its lineup for Field Study Programs this summer. UMass Boston is offering an unprecedented 4 archaeological Field schools. Two of the field schools are being run under the auspices of the Fiske Center: Historical Archaeology at Hassanamesit Woods and the Archaeological Field School in Plymouth, Massachusetts. The other two are being offered through the Department of Anthropology: Maya Archaeology and the Eastern Pequot Archaeological Field School.
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.
