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 …
A beautiful settlement in Zimbabwe that forms part of the Nyanga Complex. An enclosure can clearly be seen in the centre of the settlement with possible middens in the upper right corner. Une belle habitation au Zimbabwe qui fait partie du complexe de Nyanga. On distingue nettement un enclos au …
At MAEASaM we are using historical maps to document archaeological sites, such as in this excerpt from the 1:250,000 series based on early 20th century surveys of Sudan. The map sheet was published in 1944 and can be accessed through https://www.loc.gov/item/87692353/. Sites can then possibly be verified with Google Earth, …
It’s World Space Week, and this year’s theme is “Women in Space”! In keeping with this, MAEASaM’s own Pamela Ochungo, Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the BIEA, has been using satellite imagery to investigate traditional wells and their relationship to landcover changes on the Kenya/Ethiopia border. As she says: “At the …
Here at MAEASaM we didn’t miss Facebook, Instagram or WhatsApp too much on Monday, since we still have Google Earth and beautiful sites like Kilwa in Tanzania to marvel at! The picture on the left was taken by our Co-Investigator Professor Stephanie Wynne-Jones, and really shows off the beautiful architecture …
We aim to locate archaeological sites then ‘net’ them in the Arches-MAEASaM repository to help protect them. Plus some of us go fishing for real… MAEASaM’s Database Manager, Mahmoud Abdelrazek and coastal environment expert, Dr Mamadou Thior from Senegal, know how to celebrate World Maritime Day. …
Nestled in 350,000km2 of the Malian Sahara rises the Timetrine Massif where thousands of stone tumuli are being discovered and digitised by MAEASaM team members using free satellite imagery in Google Earth Pro. The power of this tool is that it allows you to zoom to places that are archaeologically …
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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