While archaeology studies people and cultures of the past, much of what we do can be valuable to a number of other disciplines.  The Fiske Center recently worked with Dr. Rob Stevenson of the UMass Boston Biology Department on his … Continue reading →

A lot of scholarship being presented in the next week or so:                                                Drew Webster “Ceramic Consumption in … Continue reading →

We have been working on additional ways to present the results of the research in Plymouth to the public and are happy to share a StoryMap, a web-based virtual exhibit, that we have developed.   You can find the webpage here: … Continue reading →

Brian Damiata and I put together a quick slice animation of the GPR results from our joint project in Roxbury with the City of Boston. The GPR readings help mapped the subsurface in the yard around the house, therefore the … Continue reading →

Sigríður Sigurðardóttir, Director of the Skagafjörður Heritage Museum will give a Brown Bag talk on  Tuesday, April 12 at 12:30 t UMass Boston in McCormack 1/503. The talk is  titled “From Text to Trowel:  how a local rural heritage museum … Continue reading →

Research assistant professor Doug Bolender will be featured on the new NOVA special Vikings Unearthed, which airs tonight at 9 on PBS. Read more about the show and Doug’s involvement on the Skagafjörður Church and Settlement Survey blog here, and … Continue reading →

Our joint project with the City of Boston Archaeology Program has been getting a lot of press. You can see some of the articles using a google news search.  One of the more in depth articles is by Sylvia Cunningham … Continue reading →

How Chocolate Came to Be Dr. Kathryn Sampeck   Thursday, March 10, 2016 at 12:30 McCormack, first floor, room 503   Chocolate is a fairly unremarkable part of daily life today. We have fairly clear ideas about what color it … Continue reading →

The second meeting for the thesis proposal mini-course will be today at 3.  Today we will focus on developing research questions using a rubric to better understand middle range theory in historical archaeology. The schedule for the thesis proposal mini-course … Continue reading →