This module was created for the Malawi Earlier-Middle Stone Age Project. The module has been designed to document an entire workflow for context based archaeological excavation in Malawi, Africa. The Malawi Earlier-Middle Stone Age Project (MEMSAP) is a cross-disciplinary project aimed at understanding changes in human technology, subsistence, and demography across the time period known as the Middle Stone Age (MSA, from ca. 280 – 30 thousand years ago).
This module was co-developed by Jessica Thompson at Emory University and Adela Sobotkova and Petra Janouchova at the FAIMS Project, Department of Ancient History, Macquarie University.
Development of this module was funded by ARC LE140100151, FAIMS: Transforming archaeological research through digital technologies and MQ Strategic Infrastructure Scheme 20110089, for FAIMS infrastructure development and support in 2016.
May 2015, June 2016
FAIMS v2.2 (Android 5+)
This module is licensed under an international Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 Licence (CC BY 4.0).
This module is part of the FAIMS Demo library on our publicly accessible Demo server (http://demo.fedarch.org/).
- Context & Context Group based complex recording of excavation workflow
- Munsel Soil Colour Chart
- on device created photos, photograph logs, sketches etc.
- coordinates from internal GPS
- validated fields with user observations
- controlled vocabularies
- archaeological excavation using context recording
- field school or hands-on archaeological training
For more details about the Malawi Earlier-Middle Stone Age Project please visit https://memsap.org. If you have any questions about the MEMSAP, contact Jessica Thompson jessica.thompson@emory.edu.
If you have any questions about the module, please contact the FAIMS team at enquiries@fedarch.org and we will get back to you within one business day.
