What’s Cookin’ in The Field 2: Billy the Kid
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, […]
Stories from the Field
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 […]
MEMSAP BLOG POST: What’s Cookin’ in the Field
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 […]
MEMSAP FIELD SEASON 2013
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 […]
It’s that time of year again – MEMSAP at the Meetings 2013
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 […]
It’s official – you can see our excavations from space
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 […]
A reflection on students in archaeology from the 2011 MEMSAP field school
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 […]
The MEMSAP Cold Case Files: Issue #1
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 […]
Latest Media Coverage of MEMSAP Research: Africa Unearthed
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 […]
Landscape archaeology and surveying in Karonga District
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 […]
MEMSAP: Dispatches from the Field 