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SUMMARY:Mapping Africa's Archaeological Sites and Monuments Five Years on:
  Reflections on Digitisation\, Sustainability and Sharing - Professor Paul
  Lane and Dr. Stefania Merlo\, University of Cambridge
DTSTART:20251021T120000Z
DTEND:20251021T130000Z
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CONTACT:William Wright
DESCRIPTION:Archaeological sites and monuments around the world are increa
 singly threatened by human activities and the impacts of climate change. T
 hese pressures are compounded in sub-Saharan Africa for example\, where ex
 isting sites and monuments registers tend to be incompletely digitised\, w
 here many sites are undocumented and under-studied\, and where local herit
 age agencies are often short-staffed and under-resourced. Such pressures c
 ombine to make the implementation of planning controls\, impact assessment
 s\, mitigation measures and long-term monitoring of national heritage espe
 cially challenging. Enabled by Arcadia’s grant funding for a further fiv
 e years (2024-29)\, the MAEASaM project is working alongside partners and 
 authorities in eleven countries of Africa to help meet these challenges. T
 he mission is to identify and digitally document endangered sites and monu
 ments\, using a combination of remote sensing\, records-based research and
  selective archaeological surveys conducted on the ground to verify data c
 ollected. This work is culminating in the creation of a repository of digi
 tal assets accessible to heritage professionals\, researchers and students
  across the continent\; in short\, a sustainable system for assessing\, re
 searching\, monitoring and managing archaeological heritage\, more rapidly
  and more easily. This seminar summarises the work undertaken thus far and
  explores some of the issues that have emerged regarding the digitisation 
 of legacy records\, the use of remote sensing for mapping archaeological s
 ites\, the archiving and sharing of data and the challenges associated wit
 h longer term sustainability of the digital records after funding dries up
 .
LOCATION:Hybrid/McDonald Seminar Room 
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