For 2010, a few members of the SASS crew are off to Greenland to experiment with GPR. We will be arriving in Iceland on August 1 and then going on to Greenland. We will leave August 17.
We are doing this with a small NSF EAGER grant from the Arctic Social Science Program. We are not sure if GPR or any other method will work here, but we will experiment with several techniques including EM and magnetics.
Wish us luck.
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.
