Kathryn “Kat” Catlin has a wonderful write up in the Polar Field Services Newsletter about her NSF funded dissertation work.    Polar Field Services (a subcontractor to the giant CH2M HILL) provides logistical support to NSF funded projects in the … Continue reading →

In Iceland tonight at 7:50 PM on TV  Channel 2 is a show on the Settlement that may feature a few scenes from the SCASS work in Skagafjörður.  I thought we might end up on the cutting room floor – … Continue reading →

Kathryn Catlin’s NSF award for work was recently posted on the NSF abstract list.   The title of her work is:  The Archaeological Investigation of Erosion and its Effect on Social Processes in the Arctic. She is a UMass Boston Historic … Continue reading →

Vettvangsvinnu Skagfirsku kirkju- og byggðasögurannsóknarinnar er nú lokið þetta sumarið. Við viljum þakka íbúum Hegraness fyrir að hafa tekið svona vel á móti okkur, Sveitarfélaginu Skagafirði fyrir allan stuðninginn, öllum sem veittu okkur leyfi, aðstoð eða fjárstuðning og svo auðvitað … Continue reading →

Eric and Cee Cee started a test pit at a midden at Garður.  They were joined by the livestock. This farm is right next to the Hegranesþing (Hegranesþing is the land of  Garður).  This research is the complement to the … Continue reading →

UMass Boston has put a photo of some of the crew up in their rotating front page photo.  it is   It looks like it is the 3rd or 4th picture in the rotation.  The photo was taken after climbing  … Continue reading →

  One of the important activities that took place this field season was the extraction of tephra and plant material from bogs.  We are trying to get better dates for some of the dark tephras between Hekla 3  and Hekla … Continue reading →

We now have some initial results from the survey we talked about last week.  Here is the In Phase component of the CMD explorer results. In the center right is the round church yard. Many of the booths are also … Continue reading →

There is now a wonderful video from Guðný’s resent drone flight over the Keflavík church and burial ground that SCASS is excavating.  When the white ash layer that exploded from Mount Hekla in 1104 AD fell back to earth it … Continue reading →

The  Municipality of Skagafjörður has a web page that announces the beginning of the Skagafjörður Chruch and Settlement Survey (SCASS).  It has a great drone picture of the cemetery at Keflavík.  The Skagafjörður Heritage Museum also has a web page … Continue reading →