April 5, 2013
by John Steinberg
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There is a short article in the East Hampton Star about our work at Sylvester Manor and the upcoming exhibition opening at NYU. For some reason the reporter got the impression that there was an NYU group doing work as … Continue reading
April 4, 2013
by John Steinberg
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New York University’s Fales Library and Special Collections at the Elmer Holmes Bobst Library presents an opening reception for the exhibition “Sylvester Manor: Land, Food and Power on a New York Plantation,” curated by Jennifer Anderson, PhD., on Wednesday, April … Continue reading
April 3, 2013
by John Steinberg
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My good friend Ray Dillman, a graphic artist who makes commercials and such has long lamented the poor training scientists receive in data presentation. He had some time on his hands and made my screen shot of the GPR look … Continue reading
April 2, 2013
by John Steinberg
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To the left are preliminary images and results of the GPR survey. Looks like there are multiple graves. I have pointed out one. It shows a strong reflector (at the red dot in the upper blue and red image) and … Continue reading
March 29, 2013
by John Steinberg
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The Shelter Island Reporter has an article about our GPR survey at a possible slave cemetery at Sylvester Manor
March 25, 2013
by John Steinberg
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There is a short article on Megan Ratini’s MA work in the phillyburbs.com online paper
May 29, 2012
by John Steinberg
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We did get some very nice Ground Penetrating Radar (GPR) results. You can learn more about GPR at Wikipedia and the Slice software we use at GPR-Slice. To begin to understand the results , we need to go back to our previous … Continue reading
April 12, 2012
by John Steinberg
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We had a chance to do some very preliminary archaeogeophysical survey at the Westport Town Farm with the EM-38. To me, it looks like the most interesting structured readings are well outside the impacted area (near the picnic benches by the … Continue reading
March 9, 2012
by John Steinberg
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The jungle around what is probably the enslaved laborer village at Sugar Loaf needed to be cleaned up before doing some GPR survey. The less space between the antenna and the ground, the better reading we get. Brian and Doug got to work … Continue reading
March 2, 2012
by John Steinberg
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We completed our first grid and ran the GPR with the 400 MHz antenna. It was sunny and hot, and the surface had lots of stones, which made the going a little difficult. The Radargrams look good. Saturday, we will try the … Continue reading