October 29, 2013
by John Steinberg
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Department of Anthropology and the Fiske Center for Archaeological Research Brown Bag Lecture Series Light Detection and Ranging (LiDAR) as a methodological tool for historical archaeology in New England by Kate Johnson (University of Connecticut) Wednesday, October 30, 2013 at … Continue reading
September 17, 2013
by John Steinberg
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The 2013 Massachusetts Archaeology Month Poster prominently features Stephen Mrozowski’s excavation at Grafton. The Poster shows the foundation of Sarah Boston’s house under excavation. In the foreground, the drain out of the cellar is being investigated. The photo was taken … Continue reading
May 26, 2013
by John Steinberg
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We have started the work at the two sites for Fiske Center UMass Boston Archaeological field schools. The grids have been laid out and GPR survey has begun. We will get you some results as soon as we get them.
May 26, 2013
by John Steinberg
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There was a nice photo of Dave Landon and the field school crew at Gore Place in an advertisement for UMass Boston’s summer program
May 2, 2013
by John Steinberg
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Geophysics will be part of the field school at Plymouth. We plan to do some GPR and conductivity at Burial Hill during the first weeks of the field season. Brian Damiata and I will be running the survey for the … Continue reading
April 26, 2013
by John Steinberg
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The Archaeological Field School in Plymouth, Massachusetts is collaboration between the Department of Anthropology and the Andrew Fiske Memorial Center for Archaeological Research at UMass Boston. This summer’s work will help launch “Project 400: The Plymouth Colony Archaeological Survey,” a … Continue reading
April 25, 2013
by John Steinberg
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This summer the department of Anthropology in conjunction with the Andrew Fiske Center for Archaeological Research at the University of Massachusetts Boston will sponsor a field school in historical archaeology at Hassanamesit Woods in Grafton, Massachusetts. You can learn more … Continue reading
Dennis Piechota, Heather Trigg, & Steve Mrozowski in Washington Square in front of the Elmer Holmes Bobst Library at NYU. The Sylvester Manor exhibit, described in the article, is in the red building.
There is a nice article on Sylvester Manor in the Garden section of the New York Times
April 10, 2013
by John Steinberg
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Steve Mrozowski, as well as other folks from the Fiske Center attended a special preview of the exhibition “Sylvester Manor: Land, Food and Power on a New York Plantation” on Tuesday night. Eben Fiske Osby opened the event with a … Continue reading
April 8, 2013
by John Steinberg
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You can read Stephen Mrozowski’s 2007 dedication to Alice Fiske from Northeast Historical Archaeology: Vol. 36: Iss. 1 at: http://digitalcommons.buffalostate.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1029&context=neha