Hi!  I’m Katy, an incoming graduate student at UMass Boston.  I’ll be writing some blog posts while we’re in Iceland this summer! Today we were at Stóra-Seyla, a Viking-era farmstead a few miles outside of Sauðárkrókur.  SASS has worked it … Continue reading →

  To begin with, we take off the top 20-30 cm of soil with a backhoe.  This makes it a little faster to get to the archaeological deposits from the Viking age.  The deposits are covered with 30-40 cm of … Continue reading →

Sixteen of us left Boston last night with only 26 pieces of luggage.  We left at 9:30 at night.  It was the last dark night we will see until August. Here is a picture of the sunrise over Southern Greenland.  … Continue reading →

It takes a lot to get equipment and 25 people to Northern Iceland for 7 weeks.  Doug Bolender, shown here and I have been packing for a week.  Looks like we will have 11 boxes of equipment, in addition to our … Continue reading →