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

这个迫切的项目将使用电磁、磁测量、电阻率和探地雷达(GPR)等无损技术来评估格陵兰岛上以前未确定的北欧居住地的性质、范围和保存情况。PI认为，目前对北欧人占领格陵兰的理解偏向于大型保存完好的遗址，这些遗址很容易识别和调查，因为它们很容易在风景中看到。这个项目将评估潜在的众多遗址，这些遗址可能不那么容易被发现，可能埋在现存的深层风沙下，甚至那些被后来的人类占领层掩埋的遗址。这个项目被很好地提议为一个急切的项目，它将“支持在未经测试但可能具有变革性的研究想法或方法的早期阶段的探索性工作。”由于隐藏的北欧记录的未知质量，这个项目是高风险的，但具有确定的高回报潜力。如果PI用这些技术成功地识别了这些遗址，那么该项目就有可能在格陵兰创造更深层次的北欧历史。这是很高的风险，但并不是完全未经证实，PI和COPI一直在使用这些技术来定位冰岛的地点。尽管格陵兰的地质和地理情况不同，因此需要测试这项技术，但根据PI和COPI在冰岛的记录，他们在格陵兰取得成功的可能性很高。

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.