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Weathering Climate Change in Eastern Africa

An audio recording of Professor Paul Lane’s talk on ‘Weathering Climate Change in Eastern Africa – Archaeological Insights on the Current Climate’ presented on Monday 18th November 2024, is now available to listen to from the Centre of African Studies CAS, University of Cambridge, UK. Permalink https://sms.cam.ac.uk/media/4815577. The PowerPoint that accompanies the talk is available here.

Ancient Lake Victoria: 17000 years ago to present

Our knowledge of the paleoenvironmental changes of Lake Victoria has grown over the past few years with the efforts of Researchers and PhDs involved in the Swiss SNF funded Sinergia Lake Victoria project (SNSF, 2018), based at EAWAG and University of Bern; and the Swedish Research Council funded ARCC project (Scaini et al 2024 Ambio). […]

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 […]

New paper on Biocultural Heritage in Africa!

2 January 2019 A new open-access publication co-authored by REAL team members Anna Shoemaker and Paul Lane is available from the MDPI journal ‘Land’. Ekblom A, Shoemaker A, Gillson L, Lane P, Lindholm K-L. 2019. Conservation through Biocultural Heritage—Examples from Sub-Saharan Africa. Land 8(1), 5.     Abstract In this paper, we review the potential of biocultural […]

Scientific video documentary production training

British Institute in Eastern Africa, Kileleshwa, Nairobi June 1-6, 2015 Documenting socio-ecological changes on film within a research framework – from writing to editing REAL : Resilience in East African Landscapes A Marie Curie Actions Initial Training Network (ITN), funded by the European Commission Instructors: • Arghyro Paouri, CNRS-IIAC, Audiovisual Department of IIAC. • Deborah […]

KENYA FIELDWORK JAN-APRIL 2015 REAL-YORK TEAM

The 2nd field season for the York REAL team begun in February 2015 with visits and meetings at various institutions for possible collaboration and networking. Esther Githumbi met with the Kenya CIFOR team Mariana Rufino and Alphonse on the 16th of February at their ILRI  office on their ongoing research in the Mau ecosystem to […]

African Woodlands mini conference

By: Colin Mustaphi January 9, 2014 Edinburgh, Scotland Introduction: Over January 8-9, 2014, REAL members from the University of York participated in a mini conference about biophysical and socioeconomic aspects of change and mangament of African woodlands. The conference was held at the Edinburgh Centre for Carbon Innovation (ECCI) and the Institute of Geography of […]

African Woodlands mini conference

By: Colin Mustaphi January 9, 2014 Edinburgh, Scotland Introduction: Over January 8-9, 2014, REAL members from the University of York participated in a mini conference about biophysical and socioeconomic aspects of change and mangament of African woodlands. The conference was held at the Edinburgh Centre for Carbon Innovation (ECCI) and the Institute of Geography of […]

REAL-NMK training workshop summary

By: Colin Courtney Mustaphi January 2, 2014 The REAL project and the National Museums of Kenya (NMK) published a workshop summary in the latest issue of Frontiers of Biogeography, the scientific publication of the International Biogeography Society. The combined REAL project and NMK training event was held March 2014 in Nairobi. Click here for an […]

Researchers study future of Kenya’s ‘last big mountain forest’ | CIFOR Forests News Blog

NAIROBI, Kenya — One forest, myriad functions. The pressure on Kenya’s Mau Forest and the land-use changes occurring in and around it are among the most pressing environmental issues facing the country today, raising questions about the future of the forest—and of the millions of people who depend on the services and products it provides. […]

Archaeological fieldwork in Baringo Pt. 1

The REAL archaeological expedition to Lake Baringo began this autumn. From September to November 2014 a team of experienced researchers criss-crossed the southern Baringo lowlands looking for signs of past human occupation. In their quest for knowledge they traversed kilometres under the hot African sun, battling spitting cobras, gruesome thorn shrubs, and the ferocious (but […]

REAL participates at YorNight outreach event in York, UK

YorNight at the University of York Date: 26 September 2014 Time: 4 pm – 9 pm Location: St Martin’s Church, York, United Kingdom REAL members alongside University of York archaeologists Louise Iles and Daryl Stump and members of the The Archaeology of Agricultural Resilience in Eastern Africa (AAREA) project, researchers from the Environment Department; Phil Platts and […]

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