A joint two-day workshop (10-11 January 2023) was held in Nairobi, Kenya with the MAEASaM project, the The British Institute in Eastern Africa (BIEA) and the National Museums of Kenya (NMK). The workshop was officially opened by Dr Emmanuel Ndiema, Head of the Department of Earth Sciences and Dr Frederick Manthi, Director – Directorate of Antiquities, Sites and Monuments, both from the National Museums of Kenya. On day one, MAEASaM-BIEA members, Dr Pamela Ochungo and Angela Kabiru shared with partners and collaborators the progress of the MAEASaM project. This was followed by a demonstration of the Google Earth platform for the detection of archaeological sites and their monitoring using high resolution satellite imagery by MAEASaM’s project manager, Dr Stefania Merlo.
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Dr Emmanuel Ndiema, Head of the Department of Earth Sciences at the National Museums of Kenya (NMK), opening the workshop. -
MAEASaM-BIEA researcher, Angela Kabiru, presenting on the progress of the project in Kenya -
MAEASaM project manager, Stefania Merlo and MAEASaM-BIEA postdoctoral fellow, Pamela Ochungo, demonstrating the power of the Google Earth Platform for sites detection and monitoring
