With the new grant, SASS is now SCASS, with a new blog. This blog will no longer be active.

Our good colleague Davide Zori has a nice article in the Baylor Media Website about his exciting work at Mosfell.  Davide just started at Baylor and they do not even have a faculty website up for him yet.

There is a funny article about the New Zealand Butchers in Iceland.  We stay in the same house in Skagafjörður. http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-29892427  

There was a nice story the other day on the Icelandic evening news about the excavations at Stóra-Seyla.  It starts about 15:15 and ends at about 17:00

The NSF website just put up our project abstract.  This is the basis for the field season.  The abstract is reprinted below. This work is done under permits kindly granted by The Cultural Heritage Agency of Iceland. The EM unit … Continue reading →

We have lost a great friend.  Grétar Guðbergsson passed away last week at the age of 78. Grétar, who called himself an agricultural geologist, set the stage for our archaeological work in Skagafjörður by understanding the nature of the erosion … Continue reading →

To give you some idea of what we are doing, and why we have been bringing all this equipment to  Iceland and using it, below is the abstract of the NSF grant we were awarded.  The PI on the grant … Continue reading →

Icelandair did let the 421 on. They did not even charge us much. Now we need to get it to the north of Iceland. It is too big to fit in the wagon we have rented. Therefore, I am taking … Continue reading →

The Dualem 421, when in is case, is 100 in (2.4m) long. This needs to get on the flight with us. This may be the easy part.  Getting it over the frost hummocks may be the hard part.