I gave a talk at Harvard yesterday about our work in Iceland, which I thought went well — John

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

Brian Damiata has put together a quicktime movie of the slices of the Stóra Seyla Churchyard.  The movie shows the radar waves and they reflect off of deeper surfaces.  Usually, GPR data is viewed as a radargram, which shows the … Continue reading →

There are only 4 digging days left and the Seyla crew has been very busy removing more modern buildings in order to reach the Viking Age archaeology underneath.  The midieval cow barn has been fully documented and removed and we … Continue reading →

Using photos taken from a pole and a kite, a larger "photo" or synth of the medieval cow barn has been created. Here is the link to the synth here. In the synth, you can see the west room which … Continue reading →

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 →

We have made great progress on the east room of the cow barn and have recently excavated it down to the stone pavement floor. In the south side of the room, we found rock tumble which makes us believe that … Continue reading →

With the arrival of Heather and Sue, the coring team has morphed into the pollen team!  For the last week we’ve been coring at Meðalheimur, finding locations with good tephra sequences.  So far we’ve finished taking samples from four 1×1 … Continue reading →

The weather at Seyla today was miserable, it was cold and windy with intermittent rain and yes – hail! The crew attempted to work through the rough weather but it was apparent by noon that it would not be possible. … Continue reading →

This week at Seyla, we have continued to follow and define walls. Some of us have started excavating what we believe is a medieval cow barn. In the area where we believe the hay was kept, we have found traces … Continue reading →