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  

This year the team is back for a short summer field season to ask a simple – but important – question:  what is the total volume of cultural material accumulated at Viking Age farms in Langholt? Previous work done by … Continue reading →

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

Julie, Eric, and I spent most of today at Stóra-Seyla clearing, photographing, and beginning to excavate several grave cuts to the north of the church. Julie and I put our heads together and got the pole camera running. We got … Continue reading →

After a long week of digging, most of  Stóra-Seyla has been cleaned from last year and progress has been made. Earlier in the week, the team worked on cleaning off the excavation area and taking off the remaining top layers of … Continue reading →

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 →

Hi all! I thought I’d share my first impressions as newcomer to the SCASS (Skagafjörður Church and Settlement Survey) team this year. But first, a little about me. I recently graduated from Northwestern University with a BA in Anthropology. This … Continue reading →

Welcome to the SCASS 2013 season! We have a new acronym for a new project: the Skagafjörður Archaeological Settlement Survey is joining with the Skagafjörður Heritage Museum (Byggðasafn Skagfirðinga) to form the Skagafjörður Church And Settlement Survey (SCASS). This year … Continue reading →