SASS – UMass Boston – Fiske Center – Archaeology

Blog of the Skagafjordur Archaeological Settlement Survey

February 2, 2011
by John Steinberg
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NSF – SASS in US News and Word Report

There is a nice article about our pollen work in US News and World Report.  This is a series of reports about NSF funded work. http://www.usnews.com/science/articles/2011/01/12/learning-from-the-viking-age John Steinberg

August 1, 2010
by John Steinberg
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Greenland

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 … Continue reading

August 5, 2009
by John Steinberg
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Viking Age Pollen

The Pollen team is one of several groups working on the UMass Boston Archaeological Project in Northern Iceland.  To find pollen from the Viking Age we dig small holes and sample to soil. We can date the soil because of … Continue reading

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