ARCC project member Anna Shoemaker recently joined Jan Bender Shetler and Jonathon Schramm on an excursion around western Serengeti. Shetler is a professor of history at Goshen College who has enjoyed a long career researching oral traditions, social identity, landscape and gendered memory and environmental history in the Mara region. Jonathon Schramm is an associate professor of […]
ARCC hosts scenario development workshop in Mugumu
Between August 5 – August 7, 2019, the ARCC project hosted a scenario analysis workshop in the town of Mugumu. This workshop brought together NGO workers, conservationists, government officials, researchers and private sector representatives in order to develop possible scenarios for future land use change in the western Serengeti region. The western Serengeti region is […]
ARCC at the 10th IALE World Congress 2019 in Milan, Italy
On July 1-5, 2019, Dr. Rebecca Kariuki and Dr. Claudia Capitani attended the 10th IALE World Congress in Milan, Italy. They ran a symposium titled ‘Reconstructing past landscapes to simulate future sustainable scenarios through multidisciplinary approaches’. In introducing the symposium, they presented their work in East Africa whose focus is on multidisciplinary approaches of assessing past, present […]
Participatory Scenario Planning Workshop in Ifakara
The Southern Agricultural Growth Corridor of Tanzania (SAGCOT) is a 20 year agricultural commercialisation initiative launched by the World Economic Forum in 2010, with the ultimate goal of enhancing agricultural productivity, food security, poverty reduction and environmental sustainability. The corridor runs through Tanzania’s Kilombero district, an incredibly fertile and biodiverse area with a future that […]
ARCC archaeologists at Africa, the Cradle of Human Diversity Conference
ARCC project members Paul Lane, Anneli Ekblom, and Anna Shoemaker recently attended the international conference on human diversity (May 22-25), hosted by the Schlebusch Lab, Uppsala University. Africa, the Cradle of Human Diversity Conference was dedicated to exploring diversity in relation to crucial chapters of past and recent African history from a cross-disciplinary perspective. The conference covered an […]
The KESHO framework
Researchers are challenged with exploring and understanding the future of social-ecological systems while addressing their inherent uncertainty. Consequently, scenarios are widely used to explore consistent and realistic narratives of possible future land cover/use patterns, to disseminate co-produced land cover/use change information, to inform policy, and enact positive change. The ARCC project incorporates the KESHO framework […]
New Frontiers in Anthropocene Archaeology
Anna Shoemaker was recently invited to speak about the ARCC project at the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History in Jena. Her talk was part of a larger workshop focused on bringing together researchers whose work addresses the historic and prehistoric role of humans in shaping regional and global ecosystems. Researchers in […]
Mountain Research Initiative
Friday 26 April 2019 – Bern, Switzerland Several ARCC team members attended the Global Land Programme meeting as well as the Mountain Research Initiative networking function. The Mountain Research Initiative is an international network that promotes research on mountain regions across borders and disciplines through connection and collaboration – with a view to supporting pathways […]
New paper on reporting lead-210 geochronological measurements
ARCC team member Colin Courtney-Mustaphi co-authored a study that looked at the reporting patterns of data producers of lead-210 dated sediments to help suggest guidelines for crucial information to report for data reproducibility, reuse, and archiving. Lead-210 profiles are one of most frequently used techniques for dating recent sediments over the past 150 years – […]
New paper reports on fire sciences presented at AFQUA
ARCC team member Colin Courtney-Mustaphi, University of Basel, published a report on PAGES-supported Global Palaeofire Working Group workshop activities at the AFQUA meeting at national Museum of Kenya, Nairobi, Kenya. The report discusses the participants and the data needs for understanding patterns of fire across the African continent. To see the open-access publications click […]
Development Corridors Partnership Project (DCP) launching event in Dar es Salaam
On 27th to 29th Nov 2018, Rebecca Kariuki and Rob Marchant joined the Development Corridors Partnership (DCP) project in launching their project in Tanzania. The event was held at the Bahari Beach Hotel in Dar Es Salaam and involved DCP’s project partners in Kenya, Tanzania, China and the United Kingdom. Government officials from various agencies […]
Palaeoenvironments fieldwork in Serengeti National Park, Tanzania
The second phase of ARCC palaeo fieldwork was done at the Serengeti National Park in November 2018 and was led by Colin Courtney-Mustaphi. Other ARCC researchers who joined the fieldwork were Rob Marchant, Linus Munishi and Rebecca Kariuki. Together with the driver, Alex Moshi, ARCC researchers travelled from Arusha to Serengeti on 17th Nov 2018 […]