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ARCC @ AFQUA in Nairobi, Kenya

ARCC @ AFQUA in Nairobi, Kenya

Members of the ARCC project, including Paul Lane, Rob Marchant and Colin Courtney Mustaphi, presented work at the African Quaternary Association’s annual meeting held at the National Museum of Kenya in Nairobi (14-22 July 2018). Rob presented the current state of the PAGES supported LandCover6k working group with a focus on combining and synthesising palaeoenvironmental […]

15th Congress of PanAfrican Archaeological Association

15th Congress of PanAfrican Archaeological Association

The 15th Congress of PanAfrican Archaeological Association for Prehistory and Related Studies (PanAf) Rabat, Morocco, between 10-14 September, 2018 Abstracts of papers may be submitted to one of the thematic sessions proposed and accepted available on the site http://panaf18.fsoujda.org/en/accepted-sessions/ PANEL SESSION: Patterns of anthropogenic and climate-induced land cover change: Integrating archaeological, historical and palaeoenvironmental datasets […]

First professor of the Deep History and Archaeology of Africa!

First professor of the Deep History and Archaeology of Africa!

The original article is available here: https://www.magd.cam.ac.uk/news/cambridge-appoints-first-professor-of-the-deep-history-and-archaeology-of-africa 16 Jan 2018 FELLOWS First professor of the Deep History and Archaeology of Africa Professor Paul Lane has been appointed as the inaugural Jennifer Ward Oppenheimer Professor of the Deep History and Archaeology of Africa. “Thanks to the extraordinary generosity of the Jonathan and Jennifer Oppenheimer Foundation we […]

African Archaeology Research Day

African Archaeology Research Day

Welcome to AARD 2017 We are pleased to invite you to the 2017 African Archaeology Research Day (AARD) meeting, which will be hosted on Saturday 25 November at the Department of Archaeology, University of York. The African Archaeology Research Day has been an annual event in the UK since 2002 and the first meeting held […]

Starting Seminar for the Sustainability and Resilience research programme

Starting Seminar for the Sustainability and Resilience research programme

Tackling climate and environmental changes The aim of this grant is to allow researchers the freedom to identify the research idea, methods and implementation steps, and to solve a specific research task within a limited period of time. This call is jointly funded by the Swedish Research Council and Sida through the development aid funds […]

Swedish Research Council funded Adaptation & Resilience to Climate Change Project & Publications

Swedish Research Council funded Adaptation & Resilience to Climate Change Project & Publications

  The Vetenskapsrådet (VR, Swedish Research Council) in association with Sida and Formas has funded a multiyear project titled ‘Adaptation & Resilience to Climate Change‘ that runs parallel and has overlapping focal areas to the REAL project. The grant forms part of the VR/Sida/Formas Sustainability and resilience – Tackling climate and environmental change  research programme. The […]

REAL ITN hosts its final conference in Moshi

REAL ITN hosts its final conference in Moshi

Landscape Transformations and Sustainable Trajectories in East Africa– Past, Present and Future On 11 -12 July 2017, the Resilience in East African Landscapes (REAL) ITN hosted its final conference “Landscape Transformations and Sustainable Trajectories in East Africa – Past, Present, Future” at Uhuru Hotel and Conference Centre in Moshi, Tanzania. The conference provided a forum […]

REAL web documentary preview in Nairobi

REAL web documentary preview in Nairobi

On 13 May 2017 the Alliance Francaise in Nairobi, in collaboration with IFRA, the REAL ITN, CNRS and the French Embassy, organized a mini film festival to explore the diversity of scientific documentary films. Part of the film screening was a preview of parts of the REAL web documentary that traces different ways of exploring […]

PAGES open science meeting

PAGES open science meeting

Colin Courtney Mustaphi attended the PAGES Past Global Changes open science meeting in Zaragoza, Spain, May 9-13. This included giving a talk on the LandCover6k project efforts to bring together palaeoenvironmental and archaeological data from the East Africa region. A poster on the collaboration of multiple ESRs and project partners was also presented that shows […]

Results published on crowd-sourcing priority research questions for historical ecology

Results published on crowd-sourcing priority research questions for historical ecology

How can archaeology contribute to an ecologically sustainable future? In a paper published in the open access journal PLOS ONE titled Anthropological contributions to historical ecology: 50 questions, infinite prospects REAL project members Anna Shoemaker, Nik Petek and Paul Lane explore this issue. The paper presents the result of crowd-sourcing hundreds of key questions for historical ecology from researchers […]

Ethnogenesis and Surplus Food Production

Ethnogenesis and Surplus Food Production

New Article by Nik Petek and Paul Lane REAL researchers Nik Petek and Paul Lane have recently published an article on the ethnogenesis of the Ilchamus and the food production capacity of the irrigation system in Baringo. Have a look: http://www.tandfonline.com/eprint/2Xs9p5pQFKSrMS5Y3tEu/full

REAL at the ASAUK conference 2016

REAL at the ASAUK conference 2016

REAL had a stream of three panels on the temporal, spatial and social dynamics of human-landscape interactions in East Africa at the African Studies Association of the UK 2016 conference at University of Cambridge in September 2016. The panels were themed ‘past’, ‘present’ and ‘future’, providing different temporal frames for the REAL ESRs to present […]

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