The Food and Agriculture Organization declared 2023 as the year to celebrate millets. Pictured are colorful millets from the Gorden Hillman collection UCL Institute of Archaeology & carbonized millets I recovered from 13th-century deposits in Barda, Azerbaijan. #Archaeobtany #archaeology #Millets #argriculture #Food

The Ahmed Fahmy award was attributed to the best African PhD students in archaeobotany: Fatima-Ezzahra Badri from Morocco🇲🇦, Mohammed Nasreldein from Sudan🇸🇩, Tefera Tarekegn from Ethiopia🇪🇹 and NagmEldeen Hamza from Egypt🇪🇬. Congratulations to them!! 👏👏👏👏

Are you a student or young researcher from Africa and want to participate in fieldwork at one of the most beautiful Stone Age sites of the continent? Apply and join Gregor Bader and me at the excavations at Holley Shelter next year! #Archaeology #fieldwork

Thank you Prof @MarinaGallinaro for presenting a poster prepared by Archaeology undergrad students on their behalf at the INQUARoma2023 about community engagement in safeguarding the rock art of Singida region, Tanzania 🇹🇿

A famous #BritishArchaeologist #NevilleChittick stayed somewhere here while undertaking meticulous #excavations in #KilwaKisiwani. It’s sad this research history is getting lost. ⁦British Council Tanzania⁩ ⁦British Institute in Eastern Africa⁩ ⁦UK in Tanzania⁩ ⁦Richard Bates⁩ ⁦British Council Arts⁩

Happy to share this entry by Bigimarwa and I. Historical Archaeology in Tropical Africa: Revolutionary Practices sciencedirect.com/science/articl… Shadreck Chirikure Archaeology UCD Archaeology, Dublin Makarius Itambu Sinyati Robinson Mark Urithi Wetu Centre for African Art & Archaeology, UEA Richard Bates

sciencedirect.com/science/articl…. A very cool paper by Ombori TL 2023.

The MAEASaM Regional workshop for Eastern Africa has kicked off in Nairobi British Institute in Eastern Africa with representatives from Ethiopia, University of Dar es Salaam , Zanzibarmuseums and National Museums of Kenya . The workshop is taking place from 2nd to 4th August 2023. #Collaboration #workshop #EasternAfrica

Millets are delicious, nutritious, drought-resistant & healthy for us & the planet. 🎧As we mark the #YearofMillets, learn why this small but mighty grain could be a powerful staple in an era of changing climate 👉 bit.ly/47j7rta

August 9 is the International Day of the World’s Indigenous People. The MAEASaM project joins the world in celebrating the Indigenous communities that help us build a better world. We are one global family!! #IndigenousPeoplesDay #UNESCO #UnitedNations #AfricanHeritage

Millets are sustainable, nutritious & resilient crops. But they have been under-valued & overshadowed by other grains over the last decades. 6⃣ reasons why millets deserve our attention & a place on our tables👉 bit.ly/3wtBCMQ #YearOfMillets #IYM2023

Millets are delicious, nutritious, drought-resistant & healthy for us & the planet. 🎧 As we mark the #YearofMillets, learn why this small but mighty grain could be a powerful staple in an era of changing climate 👉 bit.ly/47j7rta

#DYK millets are a sustainable, nutritious & under-valued food source? Finger millet or Eleusine coracana is high in calcium, thiamin, copper, magnesium & phosphorus. It is also a source of iron. Millets deserve a place on our tables👉 bit.ly/3wtBCMQ #YearOfMillets

Congratulations Dr. Bigimarwa

Congratulations Dr. Mak 👏