We’re hiring!
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/
International Museum Day
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 …
Earth Day 2022
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 …
Site recording at MAEASaM: Occupation mounds in Dia, Mali
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 …
International Day of Forests – Random Forest
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 …
International Women’s Day: Professor Margaret Adebisi Sowunmi
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 …
International Women’s Day 2022
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 …
An automated machine learning tool used for the classification of archaeological features!
Potential of the Tree-based Pipeline Optimization Tool (TPOT) in detecting and mapping archaeological sites using remotely sensed images By Serge Kiala, Origins Centre MAEASaM Research Hub, Wits University, South Africa Over the past few decades, there have been several challenges in studies that have attempted to map archaeological …
International Day of Women and Girls in Science 2022
The 7th United Nations International Day of Women and Girls in Science Assembly aims to recognize the role of women and girls in science, not only as beneficiaries, but also as agents of change. Let us celebrate the women printing an indelible mark in science, from Dorothy Vaughan (1910 – …
New Paper in Nature Climate Change: African heritage sites threatened as sea-level rise accelerates
We are very proud to announce the publication of an article in Nature Climate Change co-written by MAEASaM’s own Dr Nadia Khalaf! The paper concerns the threats of flooding and erosion faced by heritage sites on the African coast due to the world’s current climate emergency. The team mapped …