Post by Dr Ezekia Mtetwa, Uppsala University, Department of Archaeology and Ancient History, Box 626, 751 26 Uppsala, Sweden. ezekia.mtetwa@arkeologi.uu.se Threats to archaeological and built heritage are multiple and can be more complex than usually imagined. In Africa, the well-known culprits include unmonitored urban expansion, large-scale agricultural intensification and irrigation …
World Maritime Day 2022 – 29 September https://www.un.org/en/observances/maritime-day Today is World Maritime Day! The theme in 2022 is ‘New technologies for greener shipping’ – international shipping transports more than 80 per cent of global trade, hence the need to support a green transition into a sustainable future. On this …
En cette Journée mondiale de l’accès à l’information, c’est en français que cet article est rédigé! https://www.unesco.org/fr/days/universal-access-information-day Cette année, la Conférence mondiale sur l’accès universel à l’information se tient à Tachkent en Ouzbékistan et a pour thème : « Intelligence artificielle, e-gouvernance et accès à l’information ». Cet événement est l’occasion de rappeler …
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#dayinthelifeof an archaeologist! Our team at the BIEA is currently in Northern Kenya carrying out ground truthing of stone cairns that were identified via remote sensing methods in Google Earth Pro, led by MAEASaM’s PI Prof Paul Lane. Here you can see BIEA RAs Cecilia and Mwalimu measuring a stone …
Attention all: we’re hiring! MAEASaM are looking for a new Research Assistant/Associate, to develop our Arches database – find out more & apply here https://www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/33913/
Earth Day is an annual event on April 22nd to demonstrate support for environmental protection. First held on April 22nd, 1970, it now includes a wide range of events coordinated globally by EarthDay.org including 1 billion people in more than 193 countries. The official theme for 2022 is Invest In …
Une grande partie de notre travail sur le projet MAEASaM consiste à enregistrer des sites à l’aide de Google Earth – parfois, ceux-ci peuvent contenir très peu d’informations, mais parfois ils peuvent être associés à beaucoup plus. Par exemple, ces quatre buttes d’occupation (qui n’avaient pas été cartographiées auparavant) se …
For International Women’s Day, we at MAEASaM would also love to take the chance to celebrate one of the many prominent women in African archaeology in particular, Professor Margaret Adebisi Sowunmi (née Jadesimi), a Nigerian Professor of palynology and environmental archaeology at the University of Ibadan. Prof Sowunmi pioneered the …
Happy International Women’s Day! Here are a few quotes from some of the many women working on MAEASaM – both about working in archaeology as a woman, and about their work more generally – whose achievements we want to celebrate today. We hope their words demonstrate the importance of their …
