Fly It and Try It
By Andrew Zipkin (Doctoral Candidate, The George Washington University) Near Karonga, Malawi, Central Africa – Somewhere around the third shattered arm on the drone things began to get serious. Our […]
Updates from the Field Season in Karonga
By Andrew Zipkin (Doctoral Candidate, The George Washington University) Near Karonga, Malawi, Central Africa – Somewhere around the third shattered arm on the drone things began to get serious. Our […]
By: Julie Guy The MEMSAP Field School 2014 had a lot of firsts for me. First time to Africa (and, obviously, Malawi), first time time excavating a 1mx1m square, first […]
By: Dr Jessica Thompson Well, another field school has passed and this time no students were able to find time during the season to write a blog entry…hopefully because they […]
By James Flittner and Victor de Moor So far the season has been successful, with plenty of adventures, interesting people and of course some great archaeology. For us the surveys […]
This little clip shows a typical 1 x 2m excavation by MEMSAP. In the foreground Petros Mwanganda – related to Chief Mwanganda of the archaeological site bearing the same name […]
By James Flittner and Victor de Moor Very early on a Thursday morning a special visitor arrived. His name was Billy the Kid, but he was no human nor outlaw, […]
By James Flittner and Victor de Moor So far the MEMSAP field season is going very well, with the lab crew busy and making great head-way whilst as always Sheila […]
By James Flittner and Victor de Moor Monday beans, Tuesday beans, Wednesday beans, Thursday baked beans, never a day without our beans, beans, beans! Whilst traversing the unchartered wilds of […]
Posted by James Flittner and Victor de Moor Since the first week of June another MEMSAP season has started. After organising all the equipment, setting up the lab, and going […]
by Victor de Moor So far this blog has featured some (hopefully!) interesting stories about the sites in Karonga which are being excavated, but actually the whole landscape of Karonga […]
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