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Workshop members from the National Museums and Monuments of Zimbabwe, Department of the National Museums and Monuments of Botswana, University of Pretoria and colleagues from the Origins Centre (WITS) and Uppsala University in Johannesburg(5 – 8 June 2023). -
Participants from the National Museum of Tanzania, Zanzibar Museum and Antiquities, University of Dar es Salaam, Ethiopian Heritage Authority, Addis Ababa University, National Museums of Kenya, British Institute in Eastern Africa and the University of Cambridge in Nairobi (2 – 4 August 2023). -
The MAEASaM Regional project workshop offered the opportunity to create and foster networks of museums across the different countries the project works with. -
Regional joined up thinking for the monitoring of archaeological sites. -
After the Eastern African regional workshop, we headed to Bungoma County on the slopes of Mt Elgon. We climbed hills, walked the fields, and crawled into caves. More details on this expedition coming soon. -
On the last of the Southern African regional workshop, we tested out the project’s field recording form at a stonewalled later farming community site around Melville Koppies Nature Reserve that is in the heart of Johannesburg City. There was not as much climbing involved but the scenes were spectacular.
Project partners from Southern Africa and Eastern Africa ran two regional workshops on the theme of building networks and digitals tools for archaeological heritage documentation and management in Africa. The events were attended by over 36 project partners and collaborators who gathered at the Origins Centre (WITS), Johannesburg (5-8 June) and the British Institute in Eastern Africa (BIEA) and National Museums of Kenya (NMK) in Nairobi (2-4 August). Several important themes were reflected upon:
- Mapping heritage information: past, present, and future:
- Digital data infrastructures and the role of heritage information
- Working from analogue to digital
- Trying out the tools: Arches database
- Digital sustainability and data management:
- Thinking about digital heritage data for the longterm
- Build your own Data Management Plan (DMP)
- Joined up thinking for the monitoring of heritage sites
- Networking for strategising at regional level
Thanks to all our collaborators and partner institutions as well as to guest speakers (Prof. Serena Coetzee and Prof. Innocent Pikirayi from the University of Pretoria and Prof. Hussein Farah from the Technical University of Kenya) for making the events a great success. We look forward to the next regional workshop taking place in Senegal soon.