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2018

Journal Article

Publisher Correction: 78,000-year-old record of middle and later stone age innovation in an East African tropical forest

Shipton, Ceri, Roberts, Patrick, Archer, Will, Armitage, Simon J., Bita, Caesar, Blinkhorn, James, Courtney-Mustaphi, Colin, Crowther, Alison, Curtis, Richard, Errico, Francesco D', Douka, Katerina, Faulkner, Patrick, Groucutt, Huw S., Helm, Richard, Herries, Andy I. R., Jembe, Severinus, Kourampas, Nikos, Lee-Thorp, Julia, Marchant, Rob, Mercader, Julio, Marti, Africa Pitarch, Prendergast, Mary E., Rowson, Ben, Tengeza, Amini, Tibesasa, Ruth, White, Tom S., Petraglia, Michael D. and Boivin, Nicole (2018). Publisher Correction: 78,000-year-old record of middle and later stone age innovation in an East African tropical forest. Nature Communications, 9 (1) 2242, 2242. doi: 10.1038/s41467-018-04753-0

Publisher Correction: 78,000-year-old record of middle and later stone age innovation in an East African tropical forest

2018

Journal Article

Subsistence mosaics, forager-farmer interactions, and the transition to food production in eastern Africa

Crowther, Alison, Prendergast, Mary E., Fuller, Dorian Q. and Boivin, Nicole (2018). Subsistence mosaics, forager-farmer interactions, and the transition to food production in eastern Africa. Quaternary International, 489, 101-120. doi: 10.1016/j.quaint.2017.01.014

Subsistence mosaics, forager-farmer interactions, and the transition to food production in eastern Africa

2018

Journal Article

Exaggerated expectations in ancient starch research and the need for new taphonomic and authenticity criteria

Mercader, Julio, Akeju, Tolutope, Brown, Melisa, Bundala, Mariam, Collins, Matthew J., Copeland, Les, Crowther, Alison, Dunfield, Peter, Henry, Amanda, Inwood, Jamie, Itambu, Makarius, Kim, Joong-Jae, Larter, Steve, Longo, Laura, Oldenburg, Thomas, Patalano, Robert, Sammynaiken, Ramaswami, Soto, Maria, Tyler, Robert and Xhauflair, Hermine (2018). Exaggerated expectations in ancient starch research and the need for new taphonomic and authenticity criteria. Facets, 3 (1), 777-798. doi: 10.1139/facets-2017-0126

Exaggerated expectations in ancient starch research and the need for new taphonomic and authenticity criteria

2018

Journal Article

78,000-year-old record of Middle and Later stone age innovation in an East African tropical forest

Shipton, Ceri, Roberts, Patrick, Archer, Will, Armitage, Simon J., Bita, Caesar, Blinkhorn, James, Courtney-Mustaphi, Colin, Crowther, Alison, Curtis, Richard, d' Errico, Francesco, Douka, Katerina, Faulkner, Patrick, Groucutt, Huw S., Helm, Richard, Herries, Andy I. R., Jembe, Severinus, Kourampas, Nikos, Lee-Thorp, Julia, Marchant, Rob, Mercader, Julio, Marti, Africa Pitarch, Prendergast, Mary E., Rowson, Ben, Tengeza, Amini, Tibesasa, Ruth, White, Tom S., Petraglia, Michael D. and Boivin, Nicole (2018). 78,000-year-old record of Middle and Later stone age innovation in an East African tropical forest. Nature Communications, 9 (1) 1832, 1832. doi: 10.1038/s41467-018-04057-3

78,000-year-old record of Middle and Later stone age innovation in an East African tropical forest

2018

Journal Article

Drivers and trajectories of land cover change in East Africa: human and environmental interactions from 6000 years ago to present

Marchant, Rob, Richer, Suzi, Boles, Oliver, Capitani, Claudia, Courtney-Mustaphi, Colin J., Lane, Paul, Prendergast, Mary E., Stump, Daryl, De Cort, Gijs, Kaplan, Jed O., Phelps, Leanne, Kay, Andrea, Olago, Dan, Petek, Nik, Platts, Philip J., Punwong, Paramita, Widgren, Mats, Wynne-Jones, Stephanie, Ferro-Vázquez, Cruz, Benard, Jacquiline, Boivin, Nicole, Crowther, Alison, Cuní-Sanchez, Aida, Deere, Nicolas J., Ekblom, Anneli, Farmer, Jennifer, Finch, Jemma, Fuller, Dorian, Gaillard-Lemdahl, Marie-José ... Wright, David (2018). Drivers and trajectories of land cover change in East Africa: human and environmental interactions from 6000 years ago to present. Earth-Science Reviews, 178, 322-378. doi: 10.1016/j.earscirev.2017.12.010

Drivers and trajectories of land cover change in East Africa: human and environmental interactions from 6000 years ago to present

2018

Journal Article

The Comoros Show the Earliest Austronesian Gene Flow into the Swahili Corridor

Brucato, Nicolas, Fernandes, Veronica, Mazières, Stéphane, Kusuma, Pradiptajati, Cox, Murray P, Ng'ang'a, Joseph Wainaina, Omar, Mohammed, Simeone-Senelle, Marie-Claude, Frassati, Coralie, Alshamali, Farida, Fin, Bertrand, Boland, Anne, Deleuze, Jean-Francois, Stoneking, Mark, Adelaar, Alexander, Crowther, Alison, Boivin, Nicole, Pereira, Luisa, Bailly, Pascal, Chiaroni, Jacques and Ricaut, François-Xavier (2018). The Comoros Show the Earliest Austronesian Gene Flow into the Swahili Corridor. American journal of human genetics, 102 (1), 58-68. doi: 10.1016/j.ajhg.2017.11.011

The Comoros Show the Earliest Austronesian Gene Flow into the Swahili Corridor

2018

Book Chapter

The domestication, spread and uses of sorghum as a crop

Shapter, F. M., Crowther, A., Fox, G., Godwin, I. D., Watson-Fox, L., Hannah, I. J. C. and Norton, S. L. (2018). The domestication, spread and uses of sorghum as a crop. Achieving sustainable cultivation of sorghum Volume 2: sorghum utilization around the world. (pp. 31-64) edited by William Rooney. Cambridge, United Kingdom: Burleigh Dodds Science Publishing. doi: 10.19103/as.2017.0015.01

The domestication, spread and uses of sorghum as a crop

2018

Book Chapter

Starch granule analysis

Crowther, Alison (2018). Starch granule analysis. The encyclopedia of archaeological sciences. (pp. 1-5) Hoboken, NJ, United States: John Wiley & Sons. doi: 10.1002/9781119188230.saseas0550

Starch granule analysis

2018

Book Chapter

Early connections

Boivin, Nicole and Crowther, Alison (2018). Early connections. The Swahili world. (pp. 105-120) edited by Stephanie Wynne-Jones and Adria LaViolette. Abingdon, Oxon, United Kingdom: Taylor & Francis / Routledge. doi: 10.4324/9781315691459-7

Early connections

2017

Journal Article

Reconstructing Prehistoric African Population Structure

Skoglund, Pontus , Thompson, Jessica C. , Prendergast, Mary E. , Mittnik, Alissa , Sirak, Kendra , Hajdinjak, Mateja , Salie, Tasneem , Rohland, Nadin , Mallick, Swapan , Peltzer, Alexander , Heinze, Anja , Olalde, Iñigo , Ferry, Matthew , Harney, Eadaoin , Michel, Megan , Stewardson, Kristin , Cerezo-Román, Jessica I. , Chiumia, Chrissy , Crowther, Alison , Gomani-Chindebvu, Elizabeth , Gidna, Agness O. , Grillo, Katherine M. , Helenius, I. Taneli , Hellenthal, Garrett , Helm, Richard , Horton, Mark , López, Saioa , Mabulla, Audax Z. P. , Parkington, John ... Reich, David (2017). Reconstructing Prehistoric African Population Structure. Cell, 171 (1), 59-71. doi: 10.1016/j.cell.2017.08.049

Reconstructing Prehistoric African Population Structure

2017

Journal Article

Characterising marine mollusc exploitation in the eastern African Iron Age: archaeomalacological evidence from Unguja Ukuu and Fukuchani, Zanzibar

Faulkner, Patrick, Harris, Matthew, Ali, Abdallah K., Haji, Othman, Crowther, Alison, Horton, Mark C. and Boivin, Nicole L. (2017). Characterising marine mollusc exploitation in the eastern African Iron Age: archaeomalacological evidence from Unguja Ukuu and Fukuchani, Zanzibar. Quaternary International, 471, 66-80. doi: 10.1016/j.quaint.2017.08.051

Characterising marine mollusc exploitation in the eastern African Iron Age: archaeomalacological evidence from Unguja Ukuu and Fukuchani, Zanzibar

2017

Journal Article

Reconstructing Asian faunal introductions to eastern Africa from multi-proxy biomolecular and archaeological datasets

Prendergast, Mary E., Buckley, Michael, Crowther, Alison, Frantz, Laurent, Eager, Heidi, Lebrasseur, Ophelie, Hutterer, Rainer, Hulme-Beaman, Ardern, Van Neer, Wim, Douka, Katerina, Veall, Margaret-Ashley, Morales, Eriendira M. Quintana, Schuenemann, Verena J., Reiter, Ella, Allen, Richard, Dimopoulos, Evangelos A., Helm, Richard M., Shipton, Ceri, Mwebi, Ogeto, Denys, Christiane, Horton, Mark, Wynne-Jones, Stephanie, Fleisher, Jeffrey, Radimilahy, Chantal, Wright, Henry, Searle, Jeremy B., Krause, Johannes, Larson, Greger and Boivin, Nicole L. (2017). Reconstructing Asian faunal introductions to eastern Africa from multi-proxy biomolecular and archaeological datasets. PLoS One, 12 (8) e0182565, e0182565. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0182565

Reconstructing Asian faunal introductions to eastern Africa from multi-proxy biomolecular and archaeological datasets

2017

Journal Article

Zanzibar and Indian Ocean trade in the first millennium CE: the glass bead evidence

Wood, Marilee, Panighello, Serena, Orsega, Emilio F., Robertshaw, Peter, van Elteren, Johannes T., Crowther, Alison, Horton, Mark and Boivin, Noivin (2017). Zanzibar and Indian Ocean trade in the first millennium CE: the glass bead evidence. Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences, 9 (5), 879-901. doi: 10.1007/s12520-015-0310-z

Zanzibar and Indian Ocean trade in the first millennium CE: the glass bead evidence

2017

Journal Article

The palaeogenetics of cat dispersal in the ancient world

Ottoni, Claudio, Van Neer, Wim, De Cupere, Bea, Daligault, Julien, Guimaraes, Silvia, Peters, Joris, Spassov, Nikolai, Prendergast, Mary E., Boivin, Nicole, Morales-Muñiz, Arturo, Bălăşescu, Adrian, Becker, Cornelia, Benecke, Norbert, Boroneant, Adina, Buitenhuis, Hijlke, Chahoud, Jwana, Crowther, Alison, Llorente, Laura, Manaseryan, Nina, Monchot, Hervé, Onar, Vedat, Osypińska, Marta, Putelat, Olivier, Quintana Morales, Eréndira M., Studer, Jacqueline, Wierer, Ursula, Decorte, Ronny, Grange, Thierry and Geigl, Eva-Maria (2017). The palaeogenetics of cat dispersal in the ancient world. Nature Ecology and Evolution, 1 (139) 0139, 0139. doi: 10.1038/s41559-017-0139

The palaeogenetics of cat dispersal in the ancient world

2017

Journal Article

Dietary diversity on the Swahili coast: the fauna from two Zanzibar trading locales

Prendergast, M. E., Quintana Morales, E. M., Crowther, A., Horton, M. C. and Boivin, N. L. (2017). Dietary diversity on the Swahili coast: the fauna from two Zanzibar trading locales. International Journal of Osteoarchaeology, 27 (4), 621-637. doi: 10.1002/oa.2585

Dietary diversity on the Swahili coast: the fauna from two Zanzibar trading locales

2017

Book Chapter

Ships of the desert, camels of the ocean: an Indian Ocean perspective on Trans-Saharan trading systems

Horton, Mark, Crowther, Alison and Boivin, Nicole (2017). Ships of the desert, camels of the ocean: an Indian Ocean perspective on Trans-Saharan trading systems. Trade in the ancient Sahara and beyond. (pp. 131-155) Cambridge, United Kingdom: Cambridge University Press. doi: 10.1017/9781108161091.006

Ships of the desert, camels of the ocean: an Indian Ocean perspective on Trans-Saharan trading systems

2017

Conference Publication

East Africa as a source for Fatimid rock crystal. Workshops from Kenya to Madagascar

Horton, Mark, Boivin, Nicole, Crowther, Alison, Gaskell, Ben, Radimilahy, Chantal and Wright, Henry (2017). East Africa as a source for Fatimid rock crystal. Workshops from Kenya to Madagascar. Gemstones in the First Millennium AD: Mines, Trade, Workshops and Symbolism, Mainz, Germany, 20-22 October 2015. Mainz, Germany: Verlag des Römisch-Germanischen Zentralmuseum.

East Africa as a source for Fatimid rock crystal. Workshops from Kenya to Madagascar

2016

Journal Article

Reply to Ellis et al.: human niche construction and evolutionary theory

Erlandson, Jon M., Zeder, Melinda A., Boivin, Nicole L., Crowther, Alison, Denham, Tim, Fuller, Dorian Q., Larson, Greger and Petraglia, Michael D. (2016). Reply to Ellis et al.: human niche construction and evolutionary theory. National Academy of Sciences. Proceedings, 113 (31), E4437-E4438. doi: 10.1073/pnas.1609617113

Reply to Ellis et al.: human niche construction and evolutionary theory

2016

Journal Article

Reply to Westaway and Lyman: emus, dingoes, and archaeology’s role in conservation biology

Zeder, Melinda A., Denham, Tim, Erlandson, Jon M., Boivin, Nicole L., Crowther, Alison, Fuller, Dorian Q., Larson, Greger and Petraglia, Michael D. (2016). Reply to Westaway and Lyman: emus, dingoes, and archaeology’s role in conservation biology. National Academy of Sciences. Proceedings, 113 (33), E4759-E4760. doi: 10.1073/pnas.1610697113

Reply to Westaway and Lyman: emus, dingoes, and archaeology’s role in conservation biology

2016

Journal Article

Ancient crops provide first archaeological signature of the westward Austronesian expansion

Crowther, Alison, Lucas, Leilani, Helm, Richard, Horton, Mark, Shipton, Ceri, Wright, Henry T., Walshaw, Sarah, Pawlowicz, Matthew, Radimilahy, Chantal, Douka, Katerina, Picornell-Gelabert, Llorenc, Fuller, Dorian Q. and Boivin, Nicole L. (2016). Ancient crops provide first archaeological signature of the westward Austronesian expansion. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 113 (24), 6635-6640. doi: 10.1073/pnas.1522714113

Ancient crops provide first archaeological signature of the westward Austronesian expansion