Skagfirska kirkju- og byggðasögurannsóknin og Byggðasafn Skagfirðinga bjóða íbúum Hegraness og öðrum áhugasömum á fyrirlestur og umræðufund um fornleifarannsóknirnar sem nú fara fram í Nesinu. Sigríður Sigurðardóttir, safnstjóri, John Steinberg og Guðný Zoëga, fornleifafræðingar munu segja frá aðdraganda rannsóknanna og fyrstu … Continue reading →

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 →

After several weeks of clearing fill, aeolian deposits, and more recent turf layers, the Keflavík cemetery excavation team finally began excavating. Investigating the burials has contributed to the project’s understanding of interment rituals over time, the eventual retiring of cemeteries. … 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 →