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Gerald F. Bigelow
Adjunct Professor of Anthropology

Gerry in front of a fish chart in the archaeology lab

Email: gbigelow@usm.maine.edu
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 I received my B.A. in Anthropology from Columbia University, and my Ph.D. in Archaeology from Cambridge University. I have conducted research and taught at USM since 1994. My research interests include the archaeology, ethnohistory, ethnography and historical ecology of North Atlantic islands and coasts. Although I have worked on excavations in the US Northeast, Greenland, Iceland, England and France, my main research area is the Shetland Islands, the northernmost islands of Scotland. I am currently finishing a book on a Norse farmstead excavation in Shetland, and directing the Shetland Islands Climate and Settlement Project, an interdisciplinary study of archaeological sites in coastal sand environments. I am also President of the Atlantic Archaeology and History Research Institute.
 

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