Medieval History
An exceptionally well-preserved example of a medieval Swahili stonetown on the coast of East Africa will be excavated by an international team of archaeologists from the Universities of York, Bristol, Bournemouth and Rice this summer thanks to £500,000 from the National Science Foundation (NSF) and the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC).
The dig at Songo Mnara, a World Heritage site on the southern coast of Tanzania, will enable the researchers to explore aspects of medieval urban planning in coastal East Africa.
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Medieval History
Archaeological team to investigate medieval town in East Africa
An exceptionally well-preserved example of a medieval Swahili stonetown on the coast of East Africa will be excavated by an international team of archaeologists from the Universities of York, Bristol, Bournemouth and Rice this summer thanks to £500,000 from the National Science Foundation (NSF) and the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC).
The dig at Songo Mnara, a World Heritage site on the southern coast of Tanzania, will enable the researchers to explore aspects of medieval urban planning in coastal East Africa.
Click here to read this article from Medievalists.net
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The discovery of a mummified Korean child with relatively preserved organs enabled an Israeli-South Korean scientific team to conduct a genetic analysis on a liver biopsy which revealed a unique hepatitis B virus (HBV) genotype C2 sequence common in Southeast...
- Ancient Cooking Pots Reveal Gradual Transition To Agriculture
Humans may have undergone a gradual rather than an abrupt transition from fishing, hunting and gathering to farming, according to a new study of ancient pottery. Researchers at the University of York and the University of Bradford analysed cooking residues...
- Remains Of Oldest Fruit Trees Found In Iberian Peninsula
Researchers have found that the seed samples gathered over the years at medieval archaeological sites in the historic old quarter of Hondarribia are the remains of the oldest fruit trees in Southern Europe. The town of Hondarribia lies on the coast of...
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The Association for the Study of the Middle East and Africa (ASMEA) announces it's "Call for Papers" for the 6th Annual ASMEA Conference held in Washington, DC, November 21-23, 2013. This year's conference is titled: "Tides of Change: Looking...
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Newsletter of the Southern African Society for Medieval and Renaissance Studies Number 2 for 2009 has been posted at http://sasmarsnewsletter.blogspot.com/. In this issue: 1. Second call for papers: SASMARS 20th Biennial Conference, 2010 2. Announcements:...