This week we have a double guest slot for Meet the Team! We are lucky enough to have two research assistants working with us temporarily at York. Diana Mogrovejo – MAEASaM Research Assistant Diana is a second-year MSc Digital Archaeology student at the University of York. Since 2012, she has …
Musée des civilisations noires (MCN) Un demi-siècle après l’idée d’un musée consacré aux civilisations noires, lancée par Léopold Sédar Senghor, premier président du Sénégal, le Musée des civilisations noires (MCN) a été inauguré à Dakar, le 6 décembre 2018. Son architecture monumentale au cœur de la capitale sénégalaise, est un …
On the International Day of Forests we would like to shed some light on Random Forest. No, it is not any ‘random forest’, it is the name of a machine learning algorithm that utilises the power of many trees to produce reliable results, just like a real green forest drives …
Today is World Day for African and Afrodescendant Culture! To celebrate, our team have been sending us contributions about some of the cultures and cultural features that are important to them within the countries covered by MAEASaM. Firstly, Dr Ezekia Mtetwa, pictured below in traditional Ndau clothing, writes: “The Ndau …
It’s #GISDay! Here at MAEASaM we use #GIS everyday to map our sites, #GIS is used to gain greater insights and improved information about our #heritage sites and how to preserve them. MAEASaM’s, Dr Akinbowale Akintayo (@uoyarchaeology), is using predictive modelling to predict areas with low, medium, and maximum likelihood …
The Amboseli ecosystem in Kenya has for a long time supported human and animal populations who continue to coexist in relative harmony, with springs fed by the melting ice on Kilimanjaro sustaining life in this semi-arid environment. However, this balance is under threat, due to the shrinking of the ice …
At the beginning of the MAEASaM project, the first sites we mapped were the UNESCO World Heritage Sites and Tentative World Heritage sites of our partner countries. Here are some images of the World Heritage site of Tiya, which our team in Exeter were lucky enough to visit in 2018. …
Yesterday, MAEASaM and MAHSA ran an online #workshop on #historicalmaps, attended by 135 participants from 24 countries around the globe. Thank you to everyone who attended! MAEASaM’s Ed Burnett and Renier van der Merwe presented on their experience using historical maps in Africa, including the difficulties inherent in often inaccurate …
Over the past few months at the University of Exeter we have been mapping hand dug wells in Southern Ethiopia, known as the Tula Wells, using Google Earth. This work is in partnership with the British Institute In Eastern Africa (BIEA) and the Wells Project. This is a collaborative research …
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