EAGER: Evaluating the Potential of Shallow Archaeogeophysics Techniques on Viking Age and Medieval Sites in Greenland

该EAGER项目将使用电磁学、磁力计、电阻率和探地雷达（GPR）等非破坏性技术来评估格陵兰岛以前未查明的挪威人占领地点的性质、范围和保存情况。PI认为，目前对挪威占领格陵兰岛的理解偏向于大型保存遗址，这些遗址很容易识别和调查，因为它们很容易在景观中看到。该项目将评估潜在的许多不太容易看到的遗址，这些遗址可能埋在现有的深风成沙下，甚至可能被后来的人类占领层所掩埋。该项目是一个很好的EAGER项目，它将“在未经测试但可能具有变革性的研究思路或方法的早期阶段支持探索性工作”。由于“隐藏”挪威记录的未知质量，该项目是高风险的，但具有高回报的明确潜力。如果PI利用这些技术成功地确定了这些地点，那么该项目就有可能为格陵兰岛的挪威人创造更深入的历史。这是高风险，但并非完全未经证实，PI和CoPI一直在使用这些技术来定位冰岛的站点。尽管格陵兰岛的地质和地理情况不同，因此需要测试这种技术，但根据PI和CoPI在冰岛的记录，它们在格陵兰岛成功的可能性很大。

This EAGER project will use the non-destructive techniques of electromagnetics, magnetometry, resistivity, and ground-penetrating radar (GPR) to assess the nature, extent, and preservation of previously unidentified Norse occupation sites in Greenland. The PI argues that the current understanding of the Norse occupation of Greenland is biased toward large preserved ruins that are easily identified and surveyed because they are readily seen in the landscape. This project will assess the potentially numerous sites that are not so easily seen, perhaps buried under the deep aeolian sands that exist, or even those buried by later human occupation layers. This project is well proposed as an EAGER, it will "support exploratory work in its early stages on untested, but potentially transformative, research ideas or approaches." Because of the unknown quality of the "hidden" Norse record this project is High Risk but with the definite potential for High Return. If the PI is successful in identifying these sites with these techniques, then the project has the potential of creating a deeper history of the Norse in Greenland. This is High Risk but not completely un-proven, the PI and CoPI have been using these techniques to locate sites in Iceland. And although the geology and geography of Greenland is different and thus the need to test this technique, based on the PI and CoPI's record in Iceland, there is a high probability that they will succeed in Greenland.