2023
February
Digitisation and democratisation of archaeological knowledgeThe team at IFAN/UCAD explore the history behind the sites and monuments archive in Senegal – News.
May
A trip around the continent for Africa World Heritage DayOn 5 May, MAEASaM celebrates Africa World Heritage Day with the launch of its first StoryMap – StoryMap.
June
Building networks and tools in Southern AfricaThe Southern African MAEASaM hub kick things off with a multi-collaborator training workshop at the Origins-Centre Museum in Johannesburg, where collaborators from Zimbabwe and Botswana discuss pertinent issues around the monitoring of threats at sites in the southern African context.
July
The lifecycle of your dataParticipants explore the lifecycle of digital data and how data can be managed during another online open access half-day workshop – Archaeological Data Management.
August
Visiting Bungoma CountyA workshop is hosted by the BIEA and the National Museums of Kenya (NMK) with project collaborators from Ethiopia, United Republic of Tanzania and Kenya. The team journey to Bungoma County in western Kenya to conduct ground truthing of a sample of sites using KoboCollect.
October
Mapping in mainland TanzaniaMembers of staff and postgraduate students of the Department of Archaeology, University of Dar es Salaam embark on a ground truthing survey of archaeological sites as part of the MAEASaM project in Iringa, Mbeya and Ruvuma regions of Tanzania – News.
September
Continuation of digitisation workOver 27,000 digital site records are documented in the third year of reporting.
Digitising maps in NairobiInterns get involved in a digitisation pilot for the scanning of 1:50 000 topographic maps and site records housed at the National Museums of Kenya (NMK) and the BIEA.
December
On the ground in MutokoCollaborators from the National Museums and Monuments of Zimbabwe (NMMZ) conduct ground truthing of archaeological features based on remote sensing assessments in the Mutoko District of northeastern Zimbabwe. 7 newly identified sites are recorded.
A new instance of Arches v. 7.5The new international version of Arches is released, enabling users of the database to search in languages including Arabic and French.