2022
January
Remote Sensing for Biocultural Heritage PreservationJournal article: Mapping and monitoring indigenous wells, Northern Kenya and Southern Ethiopia – Remote Sensing. Vol No. 14.
February-April
Bespoke resource models, Arches v. 6Given the diversity of heritage datasets in Africa, the team work on the creation of bespoke resource models. Over 1,000 vocabularies are collected and added to the database.
May
Knowledge exchange and sharing in Dakar, SenegalThe team meet for the first time in-person for our mid-term project meeting hosted by IFAN/UCAD.
Digitising records in HarareUppsala University and the Zimbabwe Museum of Human Sciences (ZMHS) in Harare run the first of a series of in-person training events on the digitisation of sites and monuments records – News.
July
From Vanga to MombasaProject kicks-off with the first fieldwork mission undertaken by staff from the British Institute in Eastern Africa (BIEA) and the National Museums of Kenya (NMK) covering 100 km of coastline between Vanga and Mombasa. This is the first time that the project’s mobile data recording form using KoboCollect is deployed in a ‘real-life’ ground-truthing scenario. Over 80 coastal sites are geolocated and verified.
August
Over 30,000 sites digitised in second year of reporting37,000 archaeological features are digitised. This includes sites documented from museum records, publications and historical maps, as well as features earmarked during systematic Google Earth Pro surveys.
MAEASaM attends the PAA Congress in ZanzibarThe team present on various project activities at the Pan African Archaeological Association Congress in Zanzibar – News..
September
Through the mangrovesEquipped with the updated version of the project’s mobile data recording form, staff from the Geography Department of IFAN/UCAD carry out fieldwork in the Fatick region of the Saloum Delta in Senegal. Despite challenges of navigating through the thick mangrove cover by boat, a total of 14 sites are verified by the team. Four of these are newly discovered sites – News.
October
4th online open workshopMAHSA and MAEASaM projects join up once again to deliver Remote Sensing in Archaeology (Part II) with over 180 participants joining on the day – Remote Sensing in Archaeology (II) Workshop
Notes from UngujaGround-truthing survey training using KoboCollect is conducted on a sample of sites by teams from the University of York and Department of Museums and Antiquities (DoMAZ) in the Unguja region of Zanzibar.