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Category Archives: Off Season Updates

Updates from MEMSAP team members during the 10 months per year when we aren’t in the field

Update and Holiday Wishes

December 15, 2013by MEMSAP Leave a comment

by: Dr Jessica Thompson Since our last update was many months ago, I thought it would be a good idea to send a message to our loyal followers of this […]

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New Project Output, Off Season Updates

It’s that time of year again – MEMSAP at the Meetings 2013

March 12, 2013by MEMSAP Leave a comment

by Andrew Zipkin (Doctoral Candidate, The George Washington University) In just a few short weeks the Paleoanthropology Society and the Society for American Archaeology will be holding their annual meetings […]

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New Project Output, Off Season Updates
CH-II Trench and Karonga Airport Runway (to the northeast)

It’s official – you can see our excavations from space

March 12, 2013by MEMSAP Leave a comment

by Andrew Zipkin (Doctoral Candidate, The George Washington University) and Dr. Jessica Thompson (Project Director, University of Queensland)      The quality of imagery available from Google Earth is constantly […]

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Off Season Updates

A reflection on students in archaeology from the 2011 MEMSAP field school

October 11, 2012by MEMSAP Leave a comment

by Jacqueline Matthews (Graduate Student, University of Queensland) I attended the inaugural MEMSAP field school in 2011 and one of the enduring experiences that I took away from my time in Malawi (apart from […]

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Off Season Updates

The MEMSAP Cold Case Files: Issue #1

September 29, 2012by MEMSAP Leave a comment

by Andrew Zipkin (Doctoral Candidate, The George Washington University) Perhaps the most surprising aspect of my role in MEMSAP is that of project detective.  Because so much of MEMSAP research […]

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Off Season Updates

Latest Media Coverage of MEMSAP Research: Africa Unearthed

September 27, 2012by MEMSAP Leave a comment

High plateaus next to ocean-like lakes: how would our ancestors have coped with such different environments? And how did they deal with extreme climate change? Read the full story with MEMSAP PI […]

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Media Coverage, Off Season Updates

Dig in overseas

June 13, 2012by MEMSAP Leave a comment

by Lauren Ahwan Excerpted from the Herald Sun, Upskill Training and Education Section, June 9th 2012 About 12 per cent of undergraduates, or almost 13,000 students, undertake some form of […]

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Media Coverage, Off Season Updates
Jessica Thompson

Malawi: Passion for the Field

June 6, 2012by MEMSAP Leave a comment

Interview with MEMSAP Co-PI Dr. Jessica Thompson Excerpted from the UQ News, Issue 602, May 2012, p. 14-15 For archaeologist Dr Jessica Thompson, fieldwork experiences demarcate her life. “I sort […]

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Media Coverage, Off Season Updates

Archaeology Day in Karonga

June 2, 2012by MEMSAP Leave a comment

By Andrew Zipkin, Doctoral Candidate, The George Washington University This field season MEMSAP will host our first ever Archaeology Day in Karonga, Malawi.  Archaeo Day is a chance for members […]

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Off Season Updates

Excavation of Middle Stone Age Site of Chaminade Area II

May 27, 2012by MEMSAP Leave a comment

By Oris Malijani, Senior Antiquities Officer At the close of the 2011 field season, Dr. Jessica Thompson of the University of Queensland (Brisbane, Australia) agreed with the Department of Antiquities […]

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Field Dispatches, Off Season Updates

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