The REAL project was well represented at the jointly held 14th Congress of the Pan African Archaeological Association for Prehistory and Related Studies and the 22nd Biennial Meeting of the Society of Africanist Archaeologists which took place 14th-18th of July at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa. Nik Petek presented on Gifts, Feasts, and Social […]
Project Overview – Resilience in East African Landscapes (REAL)
Project summary The strong temporal dynamics of the East African landscape and natural-resource distributions have always encouraged people to innovate and adapt to changing conditions. However, the realities of current social and environmental changes are occurring at unprecedented rates and amplitudes. Increasing population growth, changes in patterns of land tenure, industrialization, weak systems of governance, […]
ESR 1: Finding Past Human Landscapes: An archaeological and historical ecological investigation of the Lake Baringo Basin, Baringo District, Kenya
Fellow: Nik Petek, MA, PIfA Supervision: Prof Paul Lane Host Institution: Institute of Archaeology and Ancient History, Uppsala University, Sweden Duration: 4 years – starting in January 2014 Project description: ESR 1 focuses on the archaeology and the historical ecology of the Lake Baringo Basin, Kenya, between AD 900-1750, understanding past landscapes and socio-ecological resilience of past communities. […]
ESR 2: On the periphery of living memory in the Amboseli basin human settlement and landscape interaction c. 1700-1950
Early Stage Researcher: Anna Shoemaker Supervision: Paul Lane Host Institution: Department of Archaeology and Ancient History, Uppsala University Duration: 4 years – starting from 1 January 2014 The Amboseli basin in southern Kenya is considered to be a landscape traditionally inhabited by pastoralists, and the Maasai are identified as the indigenous people of the basin. Yet, today […]
Photos from the Baringo conference at the University of Köln
Over January 8-10, 2014, the Global South Studies Center at the University of Cologne hosted a conference and brought together many members of the REAL team and other researchers working in East Africa. The focus was social-ecological transitions, exchange and emergence: resilience and vulnerability in the wider Baringo basin and adjoining highlands. […]
Resilience and vulnerability in the wider Baringo basin
Over January 8-10, 2014, the Global South Studies Center at the University of Cologne hosted a conference and brought together many members of the REAL team and other researchers working in East Africa. The focus was social-ecological transitions, exchange and emergence: resilience and vulnerability in the wider Baringo basin and adjoining highlands. The program is […]
Stockholm GIS workshop, Feb 2014
REAL ESRs participated in the QGIS and R statistical analysis training held 10-14 February at Stockholm University. The QGIS training, organised by the department of Human Geography at Stockholm University included basic GIS exercises, followed by intermediate and advanced GIS analyses involving spatial data analysis, working with terrain data, and accessing public domain geographic data. […]
Photos from the Baringo conference at the University of Köln
Over January 8-10, 2014, the Global South Studies Center at the University of Cologne hosted a conference and brought together many members of the REAL team and other researchers working in East Africa. The focus was social-ecological transitions, exchange and emergence: resilience and vulnerability in the wider Baringo basin and adjoining highlands. […]
Paul Lane
Position: Jennifer Ward Oppenheimer Professor Current Address: Jennifer Ward Oppenheimer Professor of the Deep History & Archaeology of Africa Department of Archaeology Cambridge University, United Kingdom Email: pjl29@cam.ac.uk Website link Previous address during the REAL project ITN (Professor of Global Archaeology): Institute for Archaeology and Ancient History Uppsala Universitet Box 626 751 26 Uppsala Sweden […]
Resilience and vulnerability in the wider Baringo basin
Over January 8-10, 2014, the Global South Studies Center at the University of Cologne hosted a conference and brought together many members of the REAL team and other researchers working in East Africa. The focus was social-ecological transitions, exchange and emergence: resilience and vulnerability in the wider Baringo basin and adjoining highlands. The […]
Uppsala hosts a kick-off meeting for REAL members
The Department of Archaeology and Ancient History at the University of Uppsala hosted a kick-off party from 19-23 November, 2013, giving all the members of the REAL Initial Training Network a chance to meet and discuss their ongoing and upcoming projects.