Archaeology Day in Karonga
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 […]
Excavation of Middle Stone Age Site of Chaminade Area II
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 […]
Ochre Geochemistry Video Online
IGERT, or Integrative Graduate Education and Research Traineeship, is the National Science Foundation’s flagship interdisciplinary training program. Every year, the NSF organizes an online poster and video competition for graduate […]
Ochre Geochemistry Poster Awarded Prize at the SAAs
Today we learned that the Society for Archaeological Sciences awarded Andrew Zipkin, Alison Brooks, John Hanchar, Jessica Thompson, and Elizabeth Gomani-Chindebvu the R.E. Taylor Student Poster Award for Zipkin’s presentation of […]
MEMSAP at the Meetings
by Andrew Zipkin (Doctoral Candidate, The George Washington University) Last week several members of the MEMSAP team attended the Paleoanthropology Society Annual Meeting and the Society for American Archaeology Annual Meeting […]
2011 Field Season Memories
by Corey O’Driscoll, Honours Student, University of Queensland During the second half of the 2011 MEMSAP field season, I undertook the role of site technician and data assessment. My job […]
Upcoming Guest Seminar: 100,000 years of spatio-temporal variability in technological systems and its implication for human evolution in southern Africa
Dr. Alex Mackay Thursday, March 22nd, 2012: 4 – 5 PM Michie Building, Room 325, University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia Southern Africa has been a focus of research into […]
Welcome to Dispatches from the Field
Welcome to the new Malawi Earlier-Middle Stone Age Project blog. MEMSAP has been around since 2009 and is composed of professional scientists, graduate students, and undergraduates from America, Africa, Australia, […]
MEMSAP: Dispatches from the Field 