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Updates from the Field Season in Karonga

Fly It and Try It

August 1, 2014by MEMSAP Leave a comment

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 […]

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Student Reflections I

July 28, 2014by MEMSAP Leave a comment

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 […]

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Small People, Big Impressions

July 24, 2014by MEMSAP Leave a comment

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 […]

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Changing of the Post

August 7, 2013by MEMSAP Leave a comment

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 […]

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MEMSAP at work

July 25, 2013by MEMSAP Leave a comment

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 […]

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What’s Cookin’ in The Field 2: Billy the Kid

July 20, 2013by MEMSAP Leave a comment

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, […]

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Stories from the Field

July 2, 2013by MEMSAP Leave a comment

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 […]

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MEMSAP BLOG POST: What’s Cookin’ in the Field

July 1, 2013by MEMSAP Leave a comment

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 […]

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MEMSAP FIELD SEASON 2013

June 16, 2013by MEMSAP Leave a comment

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 […]

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Landscape archaeology and surveying in Karonga District

August 7, 2012by MEMSAP Leave a comment

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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