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Brown Bag Talk: Community Archaeology and the Archaeology of Community – 1 pm McCormick 1/503

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12304265_1018909578130871_3677839776068945547_oThe last brown bag talk of the semester is Monday, Nov. 30th, but at a NEW TIME — 1 pm!  McCormick 1/503.

Come hear Steve Silliman talk about “Community Archaeology and the Archaeology of Community: The Eastern Pequot Field School, Summer 2015”

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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