Despite its name and location, Iceland is quite temperate.  Learn about this unique volcanic island and its Viking Age Settlers.  The Skagafjordur Archaeological Settlement Survey has spots for up to 5 Graduate Students and 2 Undergraduate students.  Archaeological field school or some archaeological experience necessary.  Academic credit can be arranged.  The archaeological field season will run from June 30 –Aug 8 2008.

Techniques: midden test pits, single context excavation, settlement pattern analysis, geoarchaeology,  & archaeological prospection (GPR, conductivity, & resistivity).

For more Information contact:

John M. Steinberg
Fiske Center for Archaeological Research
University of Massachusetts Boston
100 Morrissey Boulevard Boston, MA 02125-3393
+1(617) 287-6824
john.steinberg@umb.edu

Douglas Bolender
Institute for European and Mediterranean Archaeology
State University of New York at Buffalo
Department of Anthropology
380 MFAC- Ellicott Complex
Buffalo, NY 14261-0005
Phone: (716) 645-2414 ext. 139
db58@buffalo.edu

www.fiskecenter.umb.edu or http://www.fiskecenter.umb.edu/SASS.htm