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Brown Bag Series: The Skagafjörður Church and Settlement Survey: Research in North Iceland, Summer 2015

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The Skagafjörður Church and Settlement Survey: Research in North Iceland, Summer 2015

Doug Bolender
John Steinberg

Monday, Oct 19, 2015 at noon
McCormack, first floor, room 503

Drone picture of Excavations in progress at Norse Churchyard

 
During July and August the Skagafjörður Church and Settlement Survey (SCASS) excavated a churchyard and a number of Viking Age settlements.  We will talk about how we are comparing the settlement sequence to the geography of churchyards.  Come hear about the summer’s work and the research program.
Please join us and feel free to bring your lunch!

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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